I've been away for a while, but I know where to come when I get one of those tough tech questions. Here's mine:
I just bought one of those Pioneer DVR-106 burners from OWC for $159. I hooked the drive up to my Sonnet Tempo ATA66 card. The drive spun up fine, mounted a CD and played music, it also mounted a DVD disk. The problem came when I asked it to burn a CD and it instantly spit out an error code
Sense Key = Hardware Error Sense Code = 0x08, 0x03 Logical Unit Command Failure
I tried 4 different types of CD media. I upgraded my Roxio Toast from 5.0 to 5.2.1. I called Pioneer tech support and they said they didn't know about Macs, but if that was a PC giving those codes they would tell me to adjust the transfer rates. OWC tech support said that the Sonnet Tempo was quirky like that and would work as far as reading went, but wouldn't let the drive burn. I'm wondering if there is a way to make it work with the Sonnet Tempo ATA66.
Otherwise, the OWC tech support guy said I could upgrade my PCI card to an ATA133 and the Pioneer burner would work with that or he could sell me a firewire box kit that I could put the drive into and connect it to my firewire card. Both upgrade items, he said, could be carried forward to a modern G5 if I went that route in the future.
Barring getting the drive to work with the original Tempo ATA66, can anyone offer an opinion as to whether to upgrade the EIDE PCI card or to get the firewire box kit? I have a firewire card in my second to the bottom PCI slot that software reports as present, although I have never tested it with a hardware device hooked up to it.
Both the EIDE PCI upgrade to ATA133 and the firewire kit cost about the same. Which direction would you go and why, please.
My set up is: s900, G-4/400, OS9.1, 480 ram, (1) scsi drive, (2) eide drives on the Sonnet Tempo (a master boot drive & slave), an Actiontec 1394 firewire PCI card with 3 ports
My Yamaha CD burner went out on me recently, hence the need to upgrade my burning hardware, but otherwise my system has been running flawlessly for over a year (quickly knocking on wood).
I will very much appreciate any bones any of you toss me.
Bob Robeson
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