Burning DVD-R DL, Pioneer 110D

Anyone have success burning Dual-Layer DVD-R with Pioneer 110D superdrive? The drive supports DVD-R DL and I am using Toast 7 which supports DVD-R DL burning also, yet I am unable to burn successfully. (Pioneer 110D Firmware v1.39).

I have added the 110D to a heritage dual 2 but have not the option to burn -R DL with OS X 10.4.3 either.
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110D:
Firmware Revision: 1.11
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)
Profile Path: None
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No
Firmware is the 1.11 it came with, as I couldn't see anything suitable here
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/service/support/article/0,,20764249277206650,00.html#Firmware
OS X hasn't been updated since install.

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hi there--
instead of just resetting pram i would try booting to
open firmware holding apple-option-o-f and then type
in the following commands--
reset-nvram (hit return)
set-defaults (hit return)
reset-all (hit return)
the last command restarts the computer. see if that
works. if it doesn't then try resetting the smu.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301733
there is a remote possibility that this is software
related, but it almost never is, and these things
are much more likely to resolve your problem than
doing an archive and install, and they are much less
hassle free. let me know if that works. [ 8 ) ]
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Quote from: longshot5000 on 27-April-06, 11:26:07
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ATA
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DVD Laser Lens Cleaner from Radio Shack will not load either.
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On this way it is not easy to say if there is just some small problem or maybe malfunction but according to your description I presume that the drive can read but not write DVD medias. In this case it is really possible that drive is defective.
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Firmware Revision: Q609
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Reads DVD: Yes
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EyeTV is what produced the original file. I knew that re-compression could produce problems as I moved from EyeTV to iMovie to iDVD to burned DVD, so to avoid that as much as possible, I put the settings as high as possible - that's why the EyeTV file is an 8.4 GB file for 75 minutes of video, which is a pretty large file for that amount of video.
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