Beige G3 AIO with Pioneer DVR-110D not booting OS X 10.2 retail install CD

for some reason my Pioneer DVR-110D wont boot the 10.2 retail install cd's i have it will boot the OS 9.2.1 retail install cd's just fine. the only way i can boot the OS X install cd's is if i hold the command-control-power key's for 5 second's after the normal attempt to boot the cd normaly.
but during the file copying during the install it stall's out. the only way i can install OS X is if i put the orignal 24x cd-rom drive and then it will boot normaly and install normaly.
the same goes with trying to install tiger useing Xpostfacto4 but it will boot into the installer with no problem but durring the install the Pioneer will stall and will go no further during the copy prosses i can however install useing the orignal cd-rom drive
but after i get tiger installed i cant mount any disk's with either the normal cd-rom or the pioneer DVR-110D and the same goes with my other AIO i have. I dont have the disk mounting problem in OS X 10.2 or 10.2.8.
also i figured out why i was having a wake up freeze in OS 9.2.2 with the Pioneer DVR-110D there is a extention conflict happening some where with the apple cd/dvd driver extention. i disables the apple cd/dvd driver extention and rebooted amd put the system to sleep and it woke up fine but it wouldent mount any disk's cause of the extention being disabled so i rebooted and back to the wakeup freeze.
the only way to get around the wakup freeze i was having in OS 9.2.2 is to open the energy saver window and set the hdd to never fall asleep and have the monitor the only thing that sleep's and let the system idle to sleep.
sorry for the long post guy's/and gal's

From what I've read, many beiges had problems booting the 10.2 installer. I didn't have any problems booting 10.2 installer with this drive and it installed perfectly fine. However, after it installed, I couldn't actually boot into the OS, I got as far as the gray screen and it stopped and wouldn't go any further. I could boot the 10.4.3 disc as well, but as you said, the installation always stalled at "installing base system" and would go no further. I installed it by pulling my HD and hooking it up in my dad's G4, then brought it back to my computer. That worked great and 10.4.3 ran wonderfully. I just last night upgraded to 10.4.4 and it is snappy as well, however, I still have the problem with the DVR-110D. My drive will not copy large files (over 5MB) from a disc to the HD. I can mount discs and read them, but after a bit of time, it stops working entirely and won't mount discs at all. I have not tried the beta version of xpostfacto, I thought I had that version until I checked it just now. Perhaps a trip to the site to download the beta is in order. Also, the drive works great under 9.2.2, just as yours does, so I know it is not a drive error and has to be something with the Beige G3 architecture and Tiger, something is not communicating correctly. I've posed the question previously (which wasn't answered yet) about whether or not an 80 wire ATA cable would make a difference? Perhaps the 66mhz bus speed is not sufficient to have info flow from the drive to the HD? I don't know and I'm getting frustrated because I know this is a good drive! Hope we can figure it out!
Mark

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Help needed to track down Problem in tiger with Pioneer DVR-110D

ok as i stated in another topic i own a Beige G3 AIO that is running OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.4.8 and i have done allot to this system to get it to run faster and to run properly.
part of this setup has a Pioneer DVR-110D it there and when i bought it i was running OS 9.2.2 only. at first i could not burn anything with it cause it wasn't supported and when i went to put the system to sleep it would freeze when i would wake it up it never did this before i installed the drive so i knew what was causing it.
i turned off HDD sleep and the problem was fixed. but i didn't like the ideal of having the hdd running all the time when idle. me and a friend was talking about optical drive issues and he said he found this driver replacement for the apple cd/dvd driver called intech speed tool's 6.0 for OS 9.2.2 and that i should give it a try cause it fixed a few problems for him.
i downloaded the demo of it and installed it and i turned on hdd sleep and put the system to sleep and woke it back up and the system was running great. so now the wake up freeze problem was cured. but still no burn support. so after a few weeks of posting on here about the problem some one came by and said he knew what the problem was and sent me a modded PioneerCDR authoring support extension. i installed it and rebooted and opened iTunes and iTunes showed Pioneer DVR-110D as the devise to burn to. so i tryed it and behold it burned a audio cd with no problems.
later i bought a western digital SE 120gb hdd and installed it and partitioned it 3 times a 8gb first partition for OS X a second partition 10gb for OS 9.2.2 and the 3rd partition was the rest of the drives size for shared data and storage. the hdd worked great with no issues so it was time to try OS X on this system cause i was waiting to get a large HDD to do so.
i figured that the Pioneer drive would not boot the OS X jaguar cd and is a known problem with non apple cd rom drives. so i took out the Pioneer and reinstalled the apple 24x stock cd rom drive. and the jag install cd booted without a hitch. Jag installed and was running so i updated to 10.2.8 and found out the internal screen kept going out and locking the system up. so i searched this forum for the onboard video blackout and came across the terminal work around to get the system to behave itself with having more than 192mb ram installed. i rebooted and all went fine afterward.
i reinstalled the Pioneer drive and went to testing it all was fine everything mounted on the desktop that i put in the drive. but i lacked the ability to burn with the drive cause still the drive wasn't supported be the system so i searched the forum and came across the program called patchburn. i downloaded it and ran it and patched the driver to support iApps burning with this drive. so i put in a blank cd and went to burn in iTunes it burned flawlessly so i tryed a dvd-r with the finder it to burned flawlessly.
o loved playing a game planeshift and then they stopped supporting 10.2.8 so i went to buy the tiger install cd's. i already knew the Beige G3 was not a supported version of Os X on this system and you had to use xpostfacto 4 to install tiger on this system. so i did what i had to do to install tiger on the system and selected use old NDRV and selected to install tiger. which installed some files to boot tiger and rebooted yet again the Pionner drive refused to boot the install cd's . i got mad and held down the command option power key's for about 10 seconds and let off. the tiger installer booted and got to where it started to copy the files to the hdd and stalled out and the drive spun down never to spin back up or show signs of life so i powered down the system and removed the pioneer drive and put the stock 24x cdrom in and installed tiger.
after tiger was installed i shut down the system and installed the pioneer drive. and powered back on and it was in verbose mode showing what was going on one part showed that the Pioneer drive was detected but had no kernel dependencies and continued to boot. i went to repair the permitions when the onboard video went blank and the system locked up. i rembered that 10.2.8 did the same thing so i tried the 10.2.8 screen blackout fix in 10.4 and rebooted. the onboard video didnt come on but since i had a ATI Radeon 7000 i could work around in tiger to update to 10.4.7 at the time. i first repaired permitions and then ran software update and updated everything and rebooted. the onboard video came back on allong with the ATI Radeon 7000 which being used as boot video device and shown the gray apple logo with the spinning pin wheel at the bottom.
so far tiger was running great so i put a disk in the drive and nothing it didn't mount anything so i ejected it with the button on front of the drive and tryed a dvd movie and got the same nothing as with the cd. so i rebooted with the dvd in the drive al behold tiger mounted the dvd but as soon as i would try to do anything with it the drive would stop and i would have to reboot the system to gain the drive back so i can repair permissions. and never tryed to use the drive again
10.4.8 update came out i updated to it using software update and rebooted. the update went flawless so i thought to myself what if the pioneer drive worked now. so i put a cd in the drive and it mounted the disk. then i ejected it with amazement and put a dvd in and it to mounted. so i tryed to play the dvd and it played the dvd to the end of the movie. i took out the dvd and rebooted. i tryed to put the dvd back in but it didnt mount. which ****** me off as to why it was just working and now its not.
i rebooted and the dvd mounted as soon as the desktop showed up so i tried to play it but this time it only played for about 10-13 minutes before the drive stopped spinning which made dvd player stop responding which made me have to force quit the dvd player and try to restart which gave me a kernel panic. so i forced restarted (got a forum to send to apple to report the KP so i did) and the dvd mounted once again as soon as the desktop showed so i ejected the dvd and put a audio cd in and it mounted and i played the hole cd. so i ejected that and put a blank cd in and treed to burn and it got to 30% and then the drive spun down and made the disk utility stop responding. so i forced quit disk utility and rebooted. once it rebooted nothing popped up so i pressed the eject button on the drive and the cd r came out.
the OS X 10.4.8 update made the drive more stable but still wont burn anything. some times it will still not mount anything, some time it will not play anything, and still fails to copy files over to the hdd. so now im left to believe its a driver issue some where since this drive worked so flawlessly in jaguar and OS 9 but fails to work properly in tiger.
i looked in the extensions in ASP in 10.4.8 and there is a few extensions showing errors. i made a list of them to show
PatchedAppleNVRAM:
Version: 3.0
Last Modified: 8/9/05 6:07 PM
Location: /System/Library/Extensions/PatchedAppleNVRAM.kext
kext Version: 3.0
Load Address: 0x4db000
Valid: Yes
Authentic: Yes
Dependencies: Incomplete
Dependency Errors:
com.macsales.iokit.OpenOldWorldNVRAM: No valid version of this dependency can be found
Integrity: Unknown
OpenPMUNVRAMController:
Version: 2.0
Last Modified: 8/9/05 6:08 PM
Location: /System/Library/Extensions/OpenPMUNVRAMController.kext
kext Version: 2.0
Load Address: 0x63a000
Valid: Yes
Authentic: Yes
Dependencies: Incomplete
Dependency Errors:
com.macsales.iokit.OpenOldWorldNVRAM: No valid version of this dependency can be found
Integrity: Unknown
GossamerDeviceTreeUpdater:
Version: 3.0
Last Modified: 8/9/05 6:07 PM
Location: /System/Library/Extensions/GossamerDeviceTreeUpdater.kext
kext Version: 3.0
Load Address: 0x63d000
Valid: Yes
Authentic: Yes
Dependencies: Incomplete
Dependency Errors:
com.macsales.iokit.OpenPMUNVRAMController: No valid version of this dependency can be found
Integrity: Unknown
that is the list of extensions that are reporting some sort of errors. at first i was figuring it was a problem with the driver for the Pioneer drive but my friend brought over his digital audio G4 which was also running 10.4.8. and we decided to try the drive in his Mac to see if there was any problems. it mounted everything we threw in it. it played dvd's great and played audio cd's great, it copied files over to the hdd without fail. it even burned a flawless cd. ok now the ideal of the driver for the drive was thrown out the window. so it has to be something else causing the problem. either a driver for a part on the motherboard or what i have no clue.
im just wondering what driver it would be causing a problem not allowing the Pioneer drive to work properly. cause its not the drive being bad cause it worked flawlessly in OS 9.2.2 and jaguar and in tiger in my friends digital audio G4
im just wondering if anyone might know what could be done to fix this problem cause i know it can be fixed but i don't know where to begin or how. so i ask you how could i begin to fix this
thank you all for baring with me and reading all this. i know i wrote allot but i had to explain what was going on before i could ask for help so you could better understand what was going on. i have already updated the firmware to the latest with no change the firmware use to be the old 1.11

yea i have along time ago and also made a update to xlr8's drive database. cause i fixed the problems with the drive in OS 9.2.2 (AKA no burn support with the built in burning app or iTunes, now have full support for burning with the finder burn and iTunes thanks to a edited PioneerCDR authoring support extension that someone edited for me. found out that the Apple CD/DVD driver extension was at fault for the locking up on wake up with hdd sleep enabled that started when i installed the Pioneer drive. fixed with intech CD/DVD speedtools 6.0).
When i did the first report on the drive database on xlr8yourmac i reported what problems i was having in OS 9.2.2 and i think i reported that i had no problems in jaguar, and was trying to obtain a driver or something to try to get it to work. but to no avail at first. after i fixed the problems i did a update report
in jaguar the drive had no problems but no burn support. installed patchburn and the drive worked 100% in jag no problems what so ever. im thinking it has somthing to do with one or all of the extensions with errors but i can be wrong.
i just wonder where ryan has been on the forums in OWC's site. cause i would like to submit my crash log panic log and the extensions with errors so he could help track down the problems to see if it cant be fixed. but ive tried emailing him but no replay's. and his last reply on the OWC forums was back in desember 2005 a few day's over a year
i know it isnt the drive cause it worked flawlessly in tiger 10.4.8 on my friends Digital Audio but i know why it worked fine cause it has the proper files for the DA to work cause its a supported system. i would like to try to help to get xpostfacto to work better on the Beige G3 system
in tiger if it is something to do with xpostfacto

Optimal DVD drive for G3 beige, e.g. Pioneer DVR-110D

The CD RW drive in my beige DT is on its way out (it will get a directory of an audio CD but won't play audio CDs at all) and I'm thinking I might as well go for a DVD RW drive since they're only slightly more expensive than a CD RW. Many people in this forum seem to be going with the Pioneer 110D model Is this a reasonable choice? An earlier post on this forum mentioned a problem with waking from sleep (which I use) in OS 9 (which I use extensively). Has anybody else had this problem with this model?
One other thing I've read about the Pioneer 110D is inability to use it as "DVD-RAM", but one may be able to flash it to a 110 model. Is this something I even need to consider? I'm familiar with RAM but not in this particular context. Is this using the DVD drive with RW media as extra RAM similar to using a HD as extra RAM?
I've seen a number of issue posts regarding Sony drives. What about others such as Lite-On? I've checked xlr8yourmac.com but there isn't much on current model drives in beige G3s.
Along these lines, is Dragonburn software worth the small extra cost ($10) or should I just splash out for Toast ($90?)? Again, I'm mostly going to be using this with OS 9. Dragonburn seems to be supplied with both OS 9 and OS X versions on the CD whereas I doubt I could get both in one package with Toast (and maybe not OS 9 version at all).
Thanks,
Brian
G3 beiges:DT, 9.2.2, 120GBide; DT, 9.2.2/OS X.3, 120GBide; MT, 8.6/9.2.2, 128MB,

My G3 is a G3 300 MT, 384 MB RAM, rev. 3. I've got the original 6 GB harddrive, and added a 120 GB Maxtor. The DVD-burner replaced the Apple CD-rom, and there's still the ZIP-drive.
I added a scsi adapter, and a USB 2.0 card. The first is connected to a RAID (7x9.2 GB scsi HD's) which is working in OS X, but not in OS 9. The second works in both X and 9, but my USB memorystick doesn't work in 9 for some reason. Not a biggie, but odd. A USB mouse works in both.
Apparently, the AHA-2940 UW only works in Windows, but I am able to use it in OS X, although the profiler doesn't show the correct model of the card.
That enough?
One thing tho, this might be because a 300 MHz Mac is just not fast enough, or the original videocard not advanced enough (I suspect the latter), I have not been able so far to smoothly play movies on DVD on the Mac. It stutters a lot.

Pioneer dvr-110d installed but not working properly

hello,
i'm new to the forum. i just purchased a pioneer dvr-110d for my my powermac g4 466mhz. it plays dvds correctly but the only thing that it doesnt do is load my osx 10.4 disc. i got the drive so i can install software without borrowing an external drive (i needed to reload my 10.4 because of other errors) so everytime i put the 10.4 disc in it reads it and says to restart but when that happens it restarts to a gray and sometimes blue screen. so the only way i get the disc back out is with restarting with the shift key held down and then i can force eject it. you guys are my last hope. it seems to working fine except with the startup disc. which is so strange to me.. and the system profiler recognizes it also

Hi
When you installed the drive, did you set the jumper block on the left rear of the drive to "Master"?
Have you set Energy Saver to sleep NEVER & unchecked HDD sleep?
Have you tried starting up w/ the "C" key?
Have you tried updating the drive firmware? Search Discussions for DVR-110, there are many threads with links to updating on a Mac.
Assuming you've also tried cleaning the install DVD, and updating firmware makes no difference, you should try booting from some other installer CD/DVD, to confirm that the drive is bootable; if it will not boot ANY installers, I would return it.
EDIT: you may want to also try
resetting PRAM & NVRAM, always a good idea when replacing hardware.

Tiger and pc version of the Pioneer DVR-110D problems

ok here we go
I have tried the Beige G3 part of this forum with no luck cause i use a Beige G3 AIO
ok i have a Beige G3 AIO with a pc version of the pioneer DVR-110D running tiger 10.4.7 the drive will hardly work in tiger but will work flawlessly in 10.2 - 10.2.8, OS 9.x, windows 98, windows xp
the only way this drive will work in tiger is if i reboot with a disk in the drive and then it will work. but it will some times decide to stop working after 20 minutes or until i take out the disk.
some times it will stay working until i try to play dvd movies or try to burn with it then it will stop working and have to reboot with a disk in the drive in order to get it working again. if i don't reboot with a disk in the drive the drive will not work at all until i reboot with a disk in the drive.
im not sure if tiger is using a wrong driver for the drive or what. i know the drive is not bad cause it works so good under OS 9 and OS X 10.2 - 10.2.8. i can burn i app's under OS 9.2.2 with a modded pioneercdr authoring extension, and i can burn under OS X 10.2 - 10.2.8 with patchburn. but tiger refuses to work with the drive.
other than that tiger is running flawlessly on my Beige G3. the way it seems that its using a improper driver for the drive cause there is a apple branded version of the Pioneer DVR-110D with a modded firmware and a standard PC Pioneer DVR-110D with a pc firmware. if tiger is trying to use the drive as the apple version of the drive it can cause this cause the firmware is totally different from the standard pc version of the drive.
is there any one that can shed some light on this. maybe a driver edit or something maybe firmware to the apple version so i can try to flash this pc version to the apple firmware. or something. this drive should work as is if it works so great under OS 9.x, OS X 10.2 - 10.2.8, windows 98, and windows xp.
another problem i have is not being able to boot any OS X cd by normal means. i can get it to boot the 10.2 install cd by having the cd in the drive and hold the command option and power key's for about 5 seconds and some how the drive is tricked to boot and it does but it always fails to install cause the drive stop's working during the copy process.
the drive will boot the tiget install cd (with help from xpostfacto) without doing the trick to get OS X 10.2 install cd to boot but will still fail during the copy process. i know the fix for this is to get ahold of the apple version firmware for the DVR-110D drive. that also might fix the problem that it has under tiger. but it weird since the drive works great under OS X 10.2 - 10.2.8
sorry for making this a monster post but i would love to et this drive to work like it should under tiger like it does under the other OS's
BTW tiger is running great on the old beast besides the pioneer drive problem. not once has tiger failed to boot, not once has tiger crashed, ive timed this system on its boot time into tiger (34 seconds from start chime to full working tiger)its kinda sad to have tiger working so great but has this problem with the pioneer drive

i didnt say i used patchburn in tiger, only in jaguar did i use patchburn to gain burn support. altho i can try to use patchburn in tiger to see if it would help with the issue. AKA it seems like a driver issue to me
on how it will mount disk's when i reboot with a disk in the drive but will only halfway work. but will not mount anything if i boot without a disk in the drive when i put a disk in . but ASP in the ATA tap will show the drive . i can select disk burning in ASP only when the drive is working in its halfway state to show info. if i try when its in its non working state is will lock ASP up and some times throw tiger into a kernel panic when i try to reboot . after all that if i leave the drive alone tiger is ok

P35 Neo2-FR issues with Pioneer DVR-212 SATA ODD on Intel ICH9R

I need some help here, guys, as I am having weirdest issues with Pioneer DVR-212 on my mobo. Everything else is working fine - 4GB Geil DDRII 800, C2D 4600, P35 Neo2-FR, stock settings. I allready updated the bios to the lates revision - 1.8 and drive's firmware to 1.24 - and it does not help.
Basically, drive just locks up and stops responding during writing or even reading a DVD when it's connected to Intel SATA. Tried ImgBurn, Nero, InfraRecorder - same issue happens in Linux, too. When connected to Marvell SATA port - drive behave better and at least this lock up issues stop.
Drive is currently connected to SATA 5 port (1 and 2 are ESATA, 3 and 4 are HDD's and they have 0 issues, 5 is burner - tested other ports and 6 is empty). Drive just stops to respond. In BIOS, Inte l controller is in AHCI mode, but I disabled the port on which Pioneer is - as I read that optical drives have issues with AHCI. Drive is visible in Vista (32 bit SP1) but locking issues happen all the time. Are there some known issues with my motherboard and it's SATA controler? Or issues with this particular drive? Or maybe issues with AHCI mode? I repeat, this lock up issues go away when I connect it to Marvel SATA port - although I don't have the feeling it's working properly, it appears to be working with almost zero issues. I had a lock even now, while writing this - on 32% on reading an image... The rig is prime stable 24h, and works without restarting for weeks. This is the only issue - no issues with hard drives (SEAGATE 320 Barracuda 7200.10 3320620AS and a Maxtor 160GB STM3160811AS). Any help or ideas appreciated!!!

Yes - here are details...
MSI P35 NEO2-FR v1.1 bios 1.8
Intel Core2Duo [email protected] - stock
XFX Nvidia Geforce 8600gt
GEIL Ultra 4x1 GB DDR800 - stock
Seagate Barracuda 320GB ST3320620AS SATA
Maxtor DiamondMax 160GB STM3160811AS SATA
Pioneer DVR-212 SATA firmware 1.24
Chieftec PSU 410W
Cooler Master CM690 Case
Windows Vista 32bit SP1 + Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit (with 2.6.25 hand compiled kernel)
What bugs me the most is that I can't find similar issues on the net - very, very few issues solved by setting the AHCI port to which burner is connnected to non-AHCI mode and that the optical drive behaves better when connected to Marvel SATA controller, rather then Intel SATA...
Issues repeats in Linux and in Windows...
Any thoughts appreciated...

Can't get Pioneer DVR-110D to work

I just bought a Pioneer DVR-110D drive and installed it, but I can't get it to support burning. I tried PatchBurn 1 (I use OS 10.2.8) but to no avail. I searched this forum for posts on both PatchBurn and the drive, and I've been doing everything as detailed in the posts, but the system profiler still says burning isn't supported.
It reads CDs fine, and DVDs show up on the desktop (I don't have DVD playing software, though). It even erased a CD-RW.
In PatchBurn, there's 7 different Pioneer drivers listed, do I have to try replacing every one?

"In PatchBurn, there's 7 different Pioneer drivers listed, do I have to try replacing every one?"
In PatchBurn 1, try selecting the closest model number of Pioneer DVR drive from the list (if I remember, DVR-104). After it's unstalled, restart.
If that didn't seem to work, try a PRAM reset.

210-4125 will not boot when windows 7 x64 is installed

i have posted this problem a while ago "210-4125 will not boot when windows 7 x64 is installed"
hoping that some one new might have had the same problem
HP.......................................HP MINI PC 210-4125
model ................................210-4125
Bios ...................................F08
ser no................................ [edited Serial Number by Moderator]
product no.........................A8V56EA#ABU
Ram ..................................4.0 GB
system board ID............... 338d
processor .........................Atom(TM) CPU N2800 1.86GHz
Product configuration ID..0797200000204600000300100
acording to INTEL the cpu is X64 bit, but the bios will not let a X64 boot up only a x32 bit ?
and i get a message on black screen "you are trying to load an opperating system not compatable" or some thing like that
it would seem that the bios is the problem and not the CPU ? the 08 bios update only covers x32 bit and not x64
if any one out there is running x64 bit windows 7 on the 210-400 range of netbook can you tel me
1. model no
2.CPU
3.Ram installed
4 bios No
thank you
JB

thank you George
i will bear that in mind next time
i see that you work for HP ? do you have any suggestion's for my problem ?
as i mentioned before the notebook works faultlessly when X64 windows 7 is installed via the OEM disk in the external DVD drive , but if i disconnect the DVD drive it will not boot, but gets stuck in boot loop , then if i connect the drive with any windows installation disc loaded in it , it loads perfect and works perfect even if i disconnect when loaded , but i can not keep the drive connected ?
i have tried to use a USB flash drive to install X64 windows 7 but it comes back that the present CPU is not compatible ??
when it clearly states on Intel web site that it is and it works perfect when loaded ?? even the Windows update manager confirms that it will run all X64 windows OS
i understand the the bios "InsydeH20" is a very difficult bios to work with, and that Insyde have blocked the "hidden menu" via software ? i have exhausted all the software functions to open the complete bios that i can find at the moment , i think it is locked out from out side the bios and not from inside.?
any pointers in the right direction would be very helpful ,
many thanks
John

Anyone have experieence with Pioneer DVR-K05PD Superdrives??

Hi,
I'm really tired of the slow burning speed of the Matshita UJ-845E and thinking about replacing it with a Pioneer DVR-K05PD superdrive. Anyone have any experience with this model?
Especially when used with no-name DVD media. The best speed I can get from even reasonably good DVDs is 2x with this model Matshita

That pretty well answers the question. Supermarket DVDs are probably equivalent to what I buy in Asia.
From what I've been able to dig up after visiting lots of sites is that the K06 is slightly smaller in depth than the K05PD.
The K05PD also states it is csel so the solder mod required on the K06 shouldn't be required. Though some sites say you can boot from the K06 by holding the option key.
I deliberately haven't closed this thread yet so I can ad a final comment after installing and trying it out. There's a DVR-K06 I should be able to get at a good price in the next day or so.
Thanks for your help.

Mitsubishi DVD-R DL video CPRM disks rejected by iDVD6 with Pioneer DVR-111

As the title says, iDVD6 rejects my Mistubishi DVD-R DL CPRM discs.
I am trying to burn a 7.5 gig video project. iDVD says "Can't burn to single layer disc" after insertion. I have a new Pioneer DVR-111 in a DP 2Ghz G5 3gig RAM.
CPRM seems to be the culprit.
Any ideas, suggestions welcome.
DP 2Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

'CPRM' was Pioneers attempt to put copy protection on writable media. It stands for Content Protection for Recordable Media. You will see a serial number code in the silver ring closest to the center that is used in CPRM.
None of the other manufacturers picked up on CPRM and I though it was dead. It shouldn't interfer with normal use of the media.
In general on the forum, although we recommend DVD-R for single-layer discs, we recommend DVD+R for double-layer discs.
F Shippey

Pioneer DVR-105 Not Working In Quicksilver...Any Ideas?

i just bought a dvr-105 on ebay. i installed it, and it's recognized in the system profiler, and it ejects and i can put a disc in there...but then the disc is never recognized. i try different discs, and dvds and cds...but it never spins up and acknowledges the disc.
i have it set to "master" on the jumpers, and the firmware is version 1.33, which seems to be the newest one. any help would be greatly appreciated.

I checked out your link to Pioneer. I see that v 1.33 is listed as a Windows firmware version and v 1.30 is for Mac, so I would start there.
I believe some devices require that you boot into OS9 in order to install the Mac firmware, however, the firmware update itself is not OS dependent. You will need at least an OS 9.2.1 boot CD or drive partition, or it can boot to OS 9.2.0 if it is the original QS G4 disk.
I was using my QS G4 exclusively under OS 9.2.2 when I had first used the DVR-105 drive, but I had no problems when I later upgraded the OS to 10.3.5.
I have since moved the drive to my back-up B& W G3, but I have never experienced any problems.

Pioneer DVR-112 not working

Hi guys
i've recently ask in the forum for expanding my G5 and G4, because the DVD-RW stop working on both. I've bought a Pioneer DVR-112 and install it on the G4 (under panther). Startup the mac and it was there on the system profiler, but when i'd tryed to open the tray, it couldn't go out because it was getting jammed bye the mac tower (some plastic thinggis around the drive hole), so i've notice that the previous DVD-RW didn't had the front part on the drive that says DVD-RW and all the stuff. So, shutdown the mac and removed the drive to see what it can be done. Installed again and now the mac don't recognize the drive.
What can i do to fix this?.
Thanks!!

Hi-
The tray cover, and the face bezel, are both just clipped on. Carefully extend the tray, and the tray cover should be remove-able by releasing one side (top or bottom, I forget) first.
The PRAM and PMU will not affect any files. There are certain settings that will need to be reset (time, date, startup disk preference, etc.), but there is no ill effect to the stored data.
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