Dual layer DVD drive

I installed a Dual Layer +R drive into my powermac G4 dual 1.25Ghz. I have tiger 10.4.11. System info recognises the drives a DL + R. However although iDVI 501 is said to burn to DL when i go into project the DL 8GB option is not there, and on importing media it shows the single layer 4GB capacity. Does anyone know why this is?
Pioneer DVR-116D-BK
Burn DVDs up to 20X, DVD-DL (8.5GB per Disc) 12X,
CDs 40X, (DVD-RAM READ ONLY, no burn)
Message was edited by: Robin Chambers

Would have thought 10.4.11 supported the drive and DL burning.
If you insert a blank DL disk in the Finder (make sure your System Pref for handling blank DVD says "Ask me what to do"), you should get a pop-up asking you what to do (!!).
Choose Open Finder, and give it a name if you want.
You should now have a disc icon on the desktop and be able to drag files and folder onto it, up to the capacity - but you don't have to do this, just perform a Get Info on it and check capacity.
This will confirm if 10.4.11 offers native support for DL.
Without burning, select the disc icon and right click - Eject. It'll ask you to confirm, choose Eject again.
I don't know iDVI 501, did you mean iDVD 5 ?
I use Toast (now v7) which will burn everything, even back in 10.3.9;

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