Here's a quick question. What sort of ide/firewire bridge do I need
to support a CD burner?
If a the Oxford 911 is acceptable is there a driver update/flash
needed the support CD-R and CD-W modes?
I have a user with an indigo G3 iMac with FW port - the computer did
not come with a CD burner now he needs to burn CD's. I've lent him my
iomega USB burner but at 4 speed it would take him several hours to
burn the CD's he needs to put out (10 every Friday to mail out by
last mailbag).
So his department have purchased (without consulting me or even
talking to the separate computer shops about what they were trying to
achieve <sigh!>) a external removable FireWire case with an Oxford
911d IDE/FireWire board and an LG 52/24/52 speed CD burner.
So the situation is that the computer's OS (both Mac OS 9.2.2 and OS
X) will recognise the drive as a CD ROM (mounts data and audio disks
but not as a CD burner - System profiler says it's a CDRW but also
says burning is not supported. Putting a blank disk in the drive
causes a "unrecognisable media" error.
I have tested the case/drive on my Laptop and on a G4 iMac and the
same error appears.
Not currently having a spare internal IDE port to test the burner in
I'm assuming that the burner works and that it is a firewire bridge
issue.
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