Burning with an external Glyph firewire dvd cd rw drive

I am currently using an iMac G4 with OS 10.3.9 and iTunes 7.5. It seems that iTunes will not recognize this external Glyph cd/dvd burner and I cannot burn my playslists to this drive. iTunes, does however allow me to import and play CD's from this drive.
Any suggestions on how to burn playslists to this external drive using iTunes?

With the release of Tiger came much broader support for devices, so there's a good chance that upgrading your OS to either Tiger or Leopard would solve the problem.
Short of that, you could try PatchBurn to add support for your external drive.

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Looking for suggestions on an external DVD burner as my superdrive in my Macbook Pro seems to have died and i dont wanna risk installing a new one myself and effing something up.
Any suggestions?
-Sin

AbominusRules wrote:
Looking for suggestions on an external DVD burner as my superdrive in my Macbook Pro seems to have died and i dont wanna risk installing a new one myself and effing something up.
Any suggestions?
-Sin
How old is your MBP? I just have to ask if it is still under warranty, or if you bought an AppleCare program?
BTW, if you're out of warranty, you can replace it easily for around $100 plus two Torx screwdrivers. It really is nothing more than a few screws, removing the warranty tape, and plugging it in.
But there are dozens of DVD burners (mostly USB 2.0) that work well. My experience is that they don't work really well with iTunes or other programs on your Mac. And they cost probably 1/2 the cost of replacing your Super Drive.

I have a problem with my pavilion dv4-2045dx dvd/cd rom drive for windows 7 64-bit

I can play CD's and watch dvd movies fine. The drive have no problem reading cd and DVD's. My problem is with cd-rom and blank CD's and DVD's. I can't burn anything. For some reason, it won't read any cd-rom disks. This has never been a problem before. I tried the idea about the upper and lower filters but when I searched, I didn't see any upper or lower filters. I tried the microsoft fix it and nothing was wrong. I looked at the device manager and it shows no problem at all. What should I do next?

Hi, did you say this issue just started?
If so have you tried a system restore back to date when it was working?
Here is a link to a document on running a system restore...this is not like a recovery, it won't wipe out all your data
.http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00807369&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en#N315
Just click on the heading for "Returning the computer to a previous restore point"
I am an HP employee
Knowledge is power...Power to the people

Problems with my external USB 3.0 (Toshiba) hard drive and Macbook Air 2012

I can't seem to get any help on this from Apple and I am tired of ti I have a new Macbook Air 2012 model and have several Toshiba external USB 3.0 drives. I did the Mountain Lion App Store 10.8.2 update and all of a sudden non of my drives are mountable or accessible. I've been in IT 16 years and have never seen anything like this. The drives are physically fine and I can see the mapped partitions on a Windows 7 machine just fine and even use HFS Explorer to view the directory structures. The data on these drives is extremely important to not only me, but also the DoD who I am working with on a major project. Now I can't get to my documents to edit them or pull down the virtual machines I setup for my labs.
I've done all sorts of research and googled myself to death. I even foudn the "missing because Apple pulled" 2.0 update to try and fix this issue. Whatever was done with ML 10.8.2 on these notebooks renders the USB ports useless. Does anyone have a solution to getting these drives to mount?

I have the same issue.
I have two disks HDTC720XK3C1 (Portable Toshiba Hard Disk, USB 3.0 + 2.0, 2.0 TB). Purchased on the same date and same model. One inexplicably stopped working.
When i connect the drive, the systems show an message that say:
"You need format the drive <x> before can you use it
Do you want to format it"
I attach the two pictures with the screen error and disk managment.
Question for the group: These devices seem not very reliable ? this type of error the warranty covers? Sugestions ?
i think, that a backup tool should be secure. This is the 7th time I use it and the data is completely lost. Opinions?
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Which external firewire DVD burner?

Whci external firewire DVD burners work best with the iMac G5?
Are there any external firewire DVD burners that do NOT work with an iMac G5?
Thanks for any info.

I have not seen a list, but on the iDVD page, it tells that it is now compatible with third-party DVD burners. I assume that any Mac-compatible exernal burner is now supported.
There is a discussion in the iDVD forum and another here that give a few that users have installed and had work with iDVD '06.
If I was in the market for a burner, I would get one with LightScribe. A friend of mine has one for his PC and it makes very nice labels. They really are "silkscreen-quality" as they advertise. As far as I know, LaCie is the only one who makes a Mac-compatible LightScribe DVD burner.

Using an external DVD burner with iBook G4

Hi,
I am new to this ibook game so bear with me....I purchased an iBook G4 from ebay and hooked my Lacie external DVD burner up to it as it only has a combo drive. Anytime I try to burn DVDs though it says that it cannot use this disk. When I look in disc utility it says that the write ability of any DVD i insert is read only. Under system profiler my external burner does appear as drive type CD-RW/DVD-RW though. What can I do to burn DVDs? I am running osx 10.3.7 by the way and previously used my external burner with an old emac succesfully.

You could try and see if the external optical drive is supported through
third-party burn software, one example of which may be Burn, it is free.
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
{note: there are two links to download - one is for G3s only}
Is the cable you have in good health and do you have a known good spare?
And update the OS X to 10.3.9. Get the large file 'combo' for this;
and then check for security updates, java updates, etc. Be sure
to run Disk Utility's 'repair disk permissions' before & after updates.
You will have to update the Panther 10.3.x system to 10.3.9 and also
get any other updates available to the system. This may be why the
external drive won't work in the present computer. Also, Burn needs
to have 10.3.9 or later in order to work, too...
Hopefully this helps...
Good luck & happy computing!

I need help with my External DVD-RW and my iMac

I hope there is someone out there that can help me out. I was using my PC for burning DVDs and it just died. I've been using my Pioneer DVD burner in there and now I'm trying to use it on my Intel iMac. When I hooked it up using an external firewire case, this is what shows up in my profiler.
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110D:
Firmware Revision: 1.41
Interconnect: FireWire
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
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
Even though it is Apple supported, nothing mounts and it cannot burn anything in Finder, iTunes, Toast, etc. Can someone out there help me out.
Thanks in advance!
Montri - THAIICE

I have a Pioneer 110-D flashed to a 110 in an external firewire case and I can burn with all my apps.
This is my profile:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110:
Firmware Revision: 1.41
Interconnect: FireWire
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RAM, -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
You could try a different firewire even though profiler sees the drive.

Looking for an (external) Vendor Supported DVD burner

Hi all,
For years I've been working with pleasure on my 700 MHz eMac, despite of the loud fan noise. The only thing is that not until now I regret the fact I didn't bought the SuperDrive at the time, for budget reasons.
Looking for an external solution, I encountered the LaCie FireWire DVD burners, but those machines don't seem to be cooperative as it comes to iMovie and iDVD. Apparently Apple don't consider them equal to 'their' SuperDrives
What brand and type (or part number) should I be looking for to have the external drive be recognised as a Vendor Supported device?
Please, somebody help me here. Otherwise I will have to ask a new Mac with those specs for Christmas and that means waiting another year....
Olaf

Patchburn is a free software download that allows you to use Apple's iApps application such as itunes for burning of non native drives. Your OS will most likely be ok with the new drive for playing movies & audio cd's but have you tried burning with your drive? If you have iDVD this will most certainly not be supported by your drive due to special firmware within Apple superdrives that technically you cannot get around. Though if you have the version of iDVD with iLife 05/06 it places a disk image on your desktop so that with application such as Roxio Toast you can burn freely with.
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Using iDVD 6 with an external burner and hard drive

Last year I bought a 12" iBook which, of course, didn't come with a Superdrive. It also came with a 40 gig hard drive.
I'm down to 10 gigs but have an external drive with plenty of space on it.
I just recently bought a camcorder and due to the lack of a superdrive I've been using a very mediocre third party app on my Windows laptop to create DVDs.
I would like to use iMovie and iDVD to create my DVDs and am wondering if it is possible to daisy chain an external firewire hd and an external firewire DVD burner to accomplish this?
Alternatively, how much below 10 gigs can I go on my internal drive before I start running into virtual memory problems as some of these projects get kinda of large.

I have a setup similar to the one you are
contemplating: IBook with external LaCie DVD burner
and a LaCie external HDD connected to that.......
Note: do not burn directly from iDVD with this setup.
Instead use iDVD's "Save as Disc Image" option (File
Save as Disk image).
hope this helps
mish
I'm guessing you haven't been able to do a DL disc image either. (Assuming you've tried.)
Read http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=546615&tstart=0
mrbl

Burn to Lightscribe DVD+R media on External LaCie d2 DVD burner fails

Recently the Superdrive in my iMac G4 has failed where it would no longer burn DVD's reliably. I purchased a LaCie external firewire DVD burner and have been very impressed with its speed and overall compatibility.
I have created several DVDs from iDVD 5.0.1 (written to disk images) and then burned them to DVD-R media using "Disk Utility" with no problems. When I tried to burn them to LightScribe DVD+R media, the burn occurs with no errors and the DVD mounts and plays fine from the LaCie burner. However, trying to play the DVD from my original SuperDrive or in my home DVD players, does not work.
Is there some incompatibility I am unaware of? I believe I created one lightscribe DVD from Toast 7 where I was playing around with duplicating an existing DVD I had and it worked fine. I think the media I used in that case was one provided with the drive and I burned it from toast.
My lightscribe media is Verbatim LightScribe DVD+R media (30 pack). I don't want to consider these coasters. Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated.

My internal SuperDrive has this profile:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104:
Firmware Revision: A227
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: No
=======================
My external LaCie drive has this profile:
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-W162L:
Firmware Revision: LC00
Interconnect: FireWire
Burn Support: Yes (Vendor Supported)
Profile Path: /Library/DiscRecording/DeviceProfiles/LaCie.drprofile
Cache: 2048 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
It identified write restrictions, but my goal was to write a playable DVD and it fails in both my SuperDrive and off-the-shelf DVD players.
Thanks for the idea, but I'm not sure that this is the issue in this case. Is there some basic compatibility issue with using DVD+R media as a playable DVD for most off-the-shelf players?

Firewire DVD burner - works in OS 9 to Leopard, not in SL

Hello!
A while ago, I figured that it would be nice ot have an external DVD burner - as one that I wouldn't disturb via vibrations when using my MBP, and could use with my old Macs without a burner.
This burner is an NEC DVD+/-RW DL burner, as listed below. I pulled it from an old windows computer that died, and placed it into an older LaCie FW 400 enclosure. Under the older OSs - Tiger, Leopard, even OS 9 in CD-burn mode - it worked just fine, and could burn all supported formats without difficulty. In snow leopard on my 2.2 Ghz MacBook Pro (Late 2007), not only will it not function as a burner, but OS X itself does not recognize the drive. That is, System profiler detects the LaCie enclosure, but as far as SL is concerned, the enclosure has nothing in it. SL doesn't see the DVD burner, and neither does Toast. I tried placing a commercial DVD-ROM in there, but OS X wouldn't read the disc either.
Do you know how I can fix this? Or, is there really nothing I can do except use it with the older Macs? It worked fine with this same MBP before the update to SL for what it's worth...
Thanks,
-Dan
Stats of the drive, as reported by System Profiler on my G4 running Tiger.
_NEC DVD_RW ND-2510A:
Firmware Revision: 2.19
Interconnect: FireWire
Burn Support: Yes (Vendor Supported)
Profile Path: VendorSupport.drprofile
Cache: 2048 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

Interesting! I'll have to try that.
I finally got chance to mess around with the drive and such, although I haven't tired this. I actually discovered one fix, described here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090922213608468
It works perfectly, although I don't much like having to use an old version of the extension. Still, everything seems to work well, so that takes care of the problem.
Of course, next time Apple updates the OS, that may change...
Chen: I'll have to give this a try at some point, although it's quite odd that SL would recognize a drive if booted with a disc in it, but not otherwise. Go figure!
Thanks for the help everyone
-Dan

Any tips to connect IMac with Memorex external DVD recorder

Has anyone connected an external memorex DVD recorder (MRX-510LE) to an IMac using firewire or USB? Trying to burn CD's for Itunes and DVDs ...
does not recognize hardware...can't find drivers......
thanks

Hi ellejay,
welcome to the discussions.
Try Patchburn - http://www.patchburn.de/ Works a treat with almost all "unsupported" burners.
You could also consider simply updating to a more recent version of Tiger, as support for additional external burners has been added in the later revisions.
Cheers
Rod

IDVD 4.1 burning to an external DVD-R/RW drive

I have a G4 dual 500 with iDVD 4.1 (5 & 6 require 733 MHz or higher). I just bought an external DVD-R/RW drive and I want to use it with iDVD. I downloaded Patchburn to assist iDVD in seeing the drive. Every time I click Burn, iDVD crashes.
All of my media is on an external drive (Lacie d2 Firewire). Has anyone had any success with this or do I have to upgrade my processor?

I'm not sure patchburn works with OS 10.4.x - when iDVD 4 was released, the OS was at 10.2.8
I suspect you need to update to the iLife '06 applications to get your external drive to work. However, iDVD says it requires at least a 733Mhz G4 or later processor.
Have you tried to see if patchburn will allow you to write a disk image file out of iDVD? If it does that, you can use Apple's DIsk Utility to burn the image to writable media.

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looking for a external blu ray dvd burner for my mac

There are plenty of options but I have found that the LaCie d2 http://blu-ray.burnworld.com/burners/lacie-d2.htm works more consistantly. I use Toast 11 mainly for Blu-Ray. The drive does come with a basic verison of the software which is good for most but you need to upgrade to do some serious authoring.

Idvd6 to burn on an external dvd burner

I am running Osx 10.3.9 and have idvd4. Unfortunatly i have an external dvd burner and idvd4 will not burn to this. Will idvd6 work on my system as Ive heard this works with an external burner.

Hi chadredford:
Yes-iMovie 6 would allow you to natively export to an external burner. Would your system work? Better read these to help make up your mind:
iLife: System Requirements
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93634
iMovie HD 6 requires Quartz Extreme-compatible graphics cards
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303683
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