DVD Drive Burner

Does anyone know of a good DVD drive burner that I could purchase, that burns faster than the ones on the Macbook pro. Does not have to be Dual Layer but would just like it to burn normal dvd's faster. Also, if there is a region-free one out there it would be awesome.
Will give points, thanks again

Some good suggestions for external burners have been made in another thread here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3904577

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Faulty DVD Drive/Burning Software?

Hi, I have a macbook pro and for some strange reason, the DVD drive or the software won't burn any DVD's I try to make. In iDVD, during the burning stages it get to the very near last stages of burning and then it ejects it before it has actually completed burning, thus giving me a blank disk. Also I have Final Cut Pro X which for some reason won't burn onto the DVD's as well. It says that it doesnt like the disk I used. However before it had this issue it was alright using the disk. The software had did have an update bhack in march/april and since that update it hasnt been the same since. The DVD's I have tried to use are Sony DVD-R 4.7GB. I would like some information or advice that could help reslove my problems if possible?

Another help source (if you haven't already done so).
Go to your OS Help Menu. In the search field type dvd
Click on all the troubleshooting topics & Support Articles that pertain to your issue.
You can also do the same in Disk Utility. Open same up.
At the bottom left of the window, click on the purple button w/the "?" in the middle.
This will bring up the Help Menu.
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Try a different brand. Top forum favorites
CDs
FUJI
TDK
Verbatim
DVDs
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Verbatim
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2801 Apple Portables: Troubleshooting the slot load optical disc drive
Make sure the DVDs are not dirty, smudged and/or scratched.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50448 How to Handle and Clean CD and DVD Discs
Your drive may need cleaning. Cleaning kits can be purchased from any store that sells CD/DVDs
The software had did have an update bhack in march/april and since that update it hasnt been the same since.
Which software?
Care to share which OS you are using?

Hp BD CMB UJ141AF CD DVD drive burned CD knocks

My Windows Media Player sounds great, but when I burn a CD from music there, there are knocks on every song. I tried 2 different CDs and went to play it on another computer (it's for my sisters to use in cd players). I just made one on my Dell laptop and it plays perfectly in that one or in this CD/DVD drive. Where did those knocks come from? Please help!

Thanks for the quick reply.
I have downloaded the software and tried to burn the files to disc with it, but it gives the following error:
"An error occured while burning the disc. Most likely the disc is not usable. Usually, these errors happen if the inserted media is not compatible to the drive or of poor quality.
(devWriteProtected) Could not write to Disc (LBA: 0 Length:32).
Write Protected. - 0x052700"
The discs i am using are cheap ones that i bought at the supermarket, 100 for £8 or something!
Do you think this could be the problem?

DVD Drive & Burner App Issues

Hey guys, I've searched the forums for several days on this but can't see to find the fix.
I've been running Arch for about 2.5 years, upgrading daily, and all was going well, but yesterday I decided to do a fresh Arch install. The new install went fine and I'm using it now, but I'm having some troubles with my DVD drive and any CD/DVD burner apps that I try to use. Those same apps worked perfectly in my old install.
K3b now launches very slowly on the first start but it does detect both, my dvdr, and cdrw drives. However, on a K3b restart during the same Linux session, it only sees the cdrw drive. If I reboot and restart K3b, the process is repeated.
Graveman just hangs on trying to detect my drives on the first start, and it has to be killed manually. It never gets past detecting the first drive.
cdrecord gives this:
$ cdrecord -scanbus
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'PLEXTOR ' 'DVDR PX-740A ' '1.01' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PREMIUM ' '1.06' Removable CD-ROM
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
fstab looks like this:
$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/flash vfat user,noauto,noatime 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda6 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda8 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
I didn't have any modules in rc.conf before the new install and all worked well, so I didn't put any there this time either. I've tried reinstalling K3b, Graveman, and the kernel, but none of that helped.
It seems to me that this all has something to do with the new drive naming scheme, but I'm not sure.
Anyone have any clues on a fix for this one?
Thanks in advance.
oz

Hi, T-Dawg
Yep, graveman still hangs, so it might not really be K3b's fault, but a possible kernel problem instead. However, the current kernel works fine with the previous version of KDE. In the bug report mentioned above, someone claimed this issue will be fixed with the 2.6.22 kernel, so I guess we'll know soon enough.
Command line burns work perfectly so I'll keep using that and skip on hard coding the device to sr0 for now. Might do that if the new kernel doesn't work, though.
Thanks for your help.
oz
Edit: I've tried k3b 1.0.3-1 that just came out earlier today, but it has the same problem. Gotta go all the way back to version 1.0.1 to get things working again.
Last edited by ozar (2007-07-23 16:18:16)

External dvd drive/burner

I connected a pioneer 106 external drive via usb and it was not recognized. I believe I was told my computer does not have usb 2. Could this be, and if so I can I remedy this. I only have a cd drive internally.

Go to the apple menu ---> about this mac ----> More Information. Look under USB to see if your drive is actually detected. If it is, use Patchburn to enable it. Patchburn is a free program used to help Mac's detect unsupported burners.
If you do get it working, you could always dissassemble the case which takes about 5 minutes. After doing this you will see the IDE Ribbon and Power Connection. You now have an internal drive, swap it with the internal CD if you wish.
Good Luck

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Hi, I asked a couple of questions re this earlier, but I obviously didn't make myself clear based on the responses. This time I'm right to the point. Any info appreciated. Thanks, Kate

Yes I answered your post earlier.
Next time click on your name and you get to your posts page where you can see your responses.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20400967#20400967

Satellite L300D-11A - DVD-drive issue and Blue Screen

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I'm going out of my mind :o//
My Satellite L300D-11A was delivered with a Windows Vista Home Premium, but I recently made a clean installation of the Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bits.
Since then I have had problems with "Blue screen error's" comming randomly. Have purchased and installed a Registry clean up program, but that did not fix the problem. Any one else with that problem - and a possible solution.
And now for my big problem. My CD and DVD drive is driving me crazy ;o) It's a Mat****a DVD-RAM UJ-850S ATA and from my search on the internet I have found that a lot of other Mat****a owners have had the same or similar problem(s). My drive will not regonize or play/read from CD's. DVD with movies or programs I can play. Burning CD's is not possible and burning DVD's is sometimes working, and other times not.
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> But I do not now how/where to get the registration keys! I have tried looking for them.
Are you talking about *Upper/Lower Filters* ?
Follow these instructions for clearing the Upper/Lower Filters:
Click on Start --> Run --> and type in 'regedit' followed by the enter key
Expand the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" key (looks like a folder) by double clicking it (or clicking the "+" next to it.)
Expand the "SYSTEM" Key
Expand the "CurrentControlSet" Key
Expand the "Control" Key
Expand the "Class" Key
Please look for a key containing the following string of letter and numbers:{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
High light this key by left clicking once on it
On the right hand side you are looking for "UpperFilters" and "LowerFilters" under the "Name" column, once you find these please delete them by right clicking on them and choosing "delete"
Please exit the registry by clicking on the "X" in the top right hand corner of the screen
Reboot your computer

Wrong DVD drive opens on 2009 Mac Pro

Hello,
I have a 2009 Mac Pro with two DVD drives. Since upgrading to Mavericks, I've noticed some unusual behavior:
1. Ocassionally, the incorrect DVD drive ejects/opens. For example, when I attempt to open the top drive, the bottom one opens, and vice-versa.
2. Ocassionally, when I simultaneously burn 2 DVDs of the same items, I find that one of the DVD drives burns all of the items without problems, while the other one only burns a small number of the items.
3. After inserting a blank DVD, and selecting the "Burn (item name) to disc" from the right-click menu, a long time passes before the "Are you sure you want to burn..." dialogue box appears.
Has anyone else experienced this constellation of symptoms? Are they connected? And what sorts of remedies have worked?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Berwynman

Hi-
A PRAM reset should clear that up.
Did it for me in the past.

Installed new DVD drive, now iBook will not charge

Hi guys,
I'm a long-time Mac user, and this is the first time I've had any problems so I'm new to this board. I had a bit of a look around, both on this forum and the FAQs, and this appears to be a unique problem.
Basically, for a while my iBook CD drive was spitting out CDs, as per a common problem which I was not able to resolve. Eventually the tray broke and it would not click back into place, and so I was left with an iBook with a CD tray constantly popped out.
I ordered a new DVD drive/burner that claimed it would fit an iBook, and when it arrived I pulled apart my laptop and installed it. Everything appeared to be in order, until I tried to plug in the AC adaptor.
The orange light goes on for about 10-15 seconds, then slowly fades away to nothing. If I unplug and plug it back in straight away, I get no light and no charge. If I wait 15 minutes, the orange light goes back on but once again fades after a short period of time.
My first thought is that perhaps the DVD drive is incompatible/drawing too much power, but I can't figure out how this would affect the charger, and why the problem would persist whether the power is on or off.
Has anyone encountered a problem like this? I don't hold much hope that this will be fixed without expensive surgery, but I'd like to try
iBook G3, PowerPC G5, iPod Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi Ronda, thanks for the response. I've pulled it apart a couple of times and have put it back together via the instructions I downloaded on the internet both times, and have had the same problem. To be honest, I can't answer that! I'll have to pull it apart this afternoon again to check.

Installed latest itunes update and computer tried to burn a playlist to CD and realized computer no longer recognizes my CD/DVD drive. This is an APPLE Itunes issue. Help!. HPPavillion DV6 64 bit, windows 7

Installed latest itunes update and computer tried to burn a playlist to CD and realized computer no longer recognizes my CD/DVD drive. After doing some data mining, found out from community this is an long standing APPLE problem- which doesn't get much tech support in terms of fixes. I have an HPPavillion DV6 64 bit, Windows 7 OS . After reading an earlier complaint from 2009 in the support community, I ran diagnostics from ITunes which gave the following result. Can someone please help? (I'm not enough of a techie to know what I'm doing or how to locate /reinstall CD drivers. I am searching for driver disc but cannot locate.)
Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)
Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
iTunes 10.6.3.25
QuickTime 7.7.2
FairPlay 1.14.43
Apple Application Support 2.1.9
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
VoiceOver Kit 1.4.2 (222093/222742)
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 5.2.0.6
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.59.0.0
Bonjour 3.0.0.10 (333.10)
Gracenote SDK 1.9.6.502
Gracenote MusicID 1.9.6.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.6.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.6.45
iTunes Serial Number 0043AC7C0368E428
Current user is not an administrator.
The current local date and time is 2012-07-24 23:43:08.
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WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
HDCP is supported.
Core Media is supported.
Video Display Information
ATI Technologies Inc., AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250
**** External Plug-ins Information ****
No external plug-ins installed.
iPodService 10.6.3.25 (x64) is currently running.
iTunesHelper 10.6.3.25 is currently running.
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Doublechecking ... did you have CD/DVD drive tests checked when you ran those diagnostics? (I'm not seeing the CD/DVD test results down the bottom of the results where I'd expect to see them.)
For example, here's what I get:
Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Ultimate Edition Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)
Acer Aspire X3400
iTunes 10.6.3.25
QuickTime 7.7.2
FairPlay 1.14.43
Apple Application Support 2.1.9
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 5.2.0.6
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.59.0.0
Bonjour 3.0.0.10 (333.10)
Gracenote SDK 1.9.6.502
Gracenote MusicID 1.9.6.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.6.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.6.45
iTunes Serial Number 003CAD7C0A1258F8
Current user is not an administrator.
The current local date and time is 2012-07-26 10:42:53.
iTunes is not running in safe mode.
WebKit accelerated compositing is disabled.
HDCP is supported.
Core Media is not supported. (16008)
Video Display Information
ATI Technologies Inc., AMD Radeon HD 6570
**** External Plug-ins Information ****
No external plug-ins installed.
Genius ID: d6a87ba725121aa1240b1ce936c23470
iPodService 10.6.3.25 (x64) is currently running.
iTunesHelper 10.6.3.25 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 3.3.0.0 is currently running.
**** CD/DVD Drive Tests ****
No drivers in LowerFilters.
UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.2.0.1),
E: ATAPI DVD A DH16ABSH, Rev YA12
Data or MP3 CD in drive.
Found 1 songs on CD, playing time 255:57 on CDROM media.
Track 1, start time 00:02:00
Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are: 4.
The drive CDRW speeds are: 4.

Internal dvd drive no longer plays idvd burned projects

My internal dvd drive has been acting strange lately. It will play mass produced dvds but does not play my idvd projects, which it used to do. Anyone know if cleaning will help? If so, can you recommend a cleaner for an imac dvd drive?
If cleaning won't help, am I better off going to apple and having it replaced, or simply buying a compatible external drive? If an external, any recommendations?
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You can use any proprietary lens cleaner for a DVD/CD player, except the ones using a liquid.
When you have cleaned the Superdrive, do a bit of maintenance:
Repairing permissions is important, and should always be carried out both before and after any software installation or update.
Go to Disk Utility (this is in your Utilities Folder in your Application folder) and click on the icon of your hard disk (not the one with all the numbers).
In First Aid, click on Repair Permissions.
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Background information here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
and here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672
An article on troubleshooting Permissions can be found here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US
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Once that is complete reboot again from your usual start-up disk.
More useful reading here:
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417?viewlocale=en_US
For a full description of how to resolve Disk, Permission and Cache Corruption, you should read this FAQ from the X Lab:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
Then reboot your Mac and try burning a DVD again.

Satellite A200-AH5 CD/DVD drive does not burn any CDs

I own a Toshiba Satellite laptop (A200 -AH3) running Windows Vista Home Premium.
For what it is worth, the processor is a T2085 @ 1.73 GHz. It is a 32-bit Operating System.
In Device Manager when I click on DVD/CD Rom drives, I get TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632D ATA Device.
Clicking on this I find that the driver is working properly and up to date. I have not been able to burn a CD on this system...
I have not tried to burn a DVD.
I have run through all the steps for burning a CD, however, but even though it goes through the process of showing the progress as each song from a playlist is burned to disc, when the disc is supposedly finalized...there is nothing on the disc when I try to play it back and with the exception of iTunes or another program opening when I place the CD into the drive to be played, absolutely nothing happens.
I tried burning music on a disc on my sister's desktop computer and it burned fine.
So...It is not a problem with the discs.
When I took the disc my sister had burned and placed it in the disc drive on my laptop, it displayed the tracks that had been burned and it played the music just fine. This has me really thrown for a loop.
The laptop is only a year old and I can't burn a single thing.
Unfortunately, the warranty has expired. I am desperate to get this problem fixed. I have no idea if it will burn a DVD, but I have ruined 2 boxes of CD-R discs already. After the disc has supposedly burned the music...even though no music has been burned...the disc is ruined and has to be tossed.
I am not terribly knowledgeable about techncal aspects of computers, so I hope you can speak to me in general terminology if you respond to my problem. I really hope someone out there can advise me as to what is going on or what I should do to resolve the problem.
Thanks for any help in advance!
Thanks.
Gord
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Hi
In your case I would recommend trying different CDs from different manufacturers.
You should know that not all CDs or DVDs would be fully compatible with your internal CD/DVD drive.
In many cases not compatible CD or DVD would cause exactly the same issues which you have described in your message so try different medias!
Furthermore I would recommend checking the Toshiba driver page for an CD/DVD drives firmware update.
As Im not mistaken the Satellite A200-AH3 belongs to the Canadian series and you should check the Canadian page for some new firmware. Maybe a new firmware is available
Last but not least you could switch to other burning software Im using the Nero In my opinion its the best applications for such purposes

CD/DVD Drive won't burn file to disk.

I have a HP Pavilion dv2799ea and i am running Windows 7 Bit on it.
My CD/DVD ROM Drive is a slimtype DVD A DS8A1H ATA Device.
When i try to burn files to a disk it it throws up the following error message:
"The disc wasn't burned successfully. Make sure that you have the laciest firmware for you CD or DVD burner installed, and then try again"
My driver are up to date on my DVD drive.
What i have tried so far to fix this problem is:
I uninstalled the slimtype DVD A DS8A1H ATA Device via device manager
and also uninstalled the
ATA Channel 0, ATA Channel 0, ATA Channel 1, ATA Channel 1, ATA Channel 2
under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in the device manager,
restarted my PC and it started installing them again, but with no luck as the disc will till not burn!
Also i went into Regedit under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > Class > {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
and deleted the UpperFilters - REG_MUTI_SZ
These were both fixes for other people online who seemed to have the same problem as me, however they have not worked for me!
I have since restored the registry the its former state.
I realism the error message says it may need a newer version of firmware, but i have searched online and don't seem to be able to find one (not that there isnt one).
If anyone could could please help me with this it would be greatly appreciated, as i feel i have tried everything that i am capable of!
For further note: I bought the PC second hand off a mate in April 11, but have not tried to burn a disc since i have had it!
He previously had windows vista on it!
Thank you in advance for any help or information on this matter

Thanks for the quick reply.
I have downloaded the software and tried to burn the files to disc with it, but it gives the following error:
"An error occured while burning the disc. Most likely the disc is not usable. Usually, these errors happen if the inserted media is not compatible to the drive or of poor quality.
(devWriteProtected) Could not write to Disc (LBA: 0 Length:32).
Write Protected. - 0x052700"
The discs i am using are cheap ones that i bought at the supermarket, 100 for £8 or something!
Do you think this could be the problem?

DVD drive doesn't recognize blank DVDs or allow burns

I got a 20", 2.4 Ghz Intel Imac not too long ago, with Leopard already installed. I'd been using Parallels or Boot Camp to do all by DVD burning in Windows until recently. The first time I tried to do it in OSX 10.5.1, it didn't work right. The DVD icon does not show up on the desktop, though it's acknowledged when it's inserted, and a box pops up asking for me to perform an action. But I can't get it to burn a simple data DVD through disk utility, or even in DVD Studio Pro. I saw other threads about this, wondering if anyone has a solution. A file ending in .plist was mentioned, that you should move from its folder if you find it. I didn't find it. What else can I do? Works fine in Windows through Boot Camp or Parallels, and once a disc has something on it, it'll show up when put in the DVD drive. It's only blanks that are "invisible".

You issue sounds similiar to all of us in the other chat thread. Go to "MATSHITA superdrive has died" and post your comments there, perhaps more people post, it might get Apple's attention.

DVD drive won't work but it will burn disk?

imac 2.4Ghz - 10.5.8
For sometime now my DVD drive spits out Cd's/DVDs as soon as I put it in. Strange thing is, it will let me put blank media in and will allow me to burn disks.
It's getting really annoying now as can't do so many things I need to do.
I want to upgrade to Snow leopard but until this is sorted I can't. I know I can attach an external drive or replace it but I need to know that I've covered all areas before resorting to this.
Wondering if an upgrade caused this possibly?
Would be very grateful for any help anyone can give me?
Many thanks

Hello kfq
Welcome to Apple Support Communities
1. Check and clean those CDs and DVDs, SuperDrives are picky and don't like dirty, filmy, scratched, warped, out of balance media with labels on them!
2. Check the Apple > System Preferences > CDs & DVDs to make sure that they were set correctly. To include toggling/re-setting them to something else and back, forcing the system to re-write the preferences.
3. Download the 10.5.8 Combo Update from the following Apple Support page and install it over the top of the current 10.5.8 > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL866
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