Pioneer DVR-111D Opinions?

My current Samsung SH-W08A burner (flashed to latest 1S31 firmware from Samsung site) will not recognize Sony +R media (hub says the disc is Ver 1.3 1x-16x) so looks like I need to buy a different drive to work with "modern" media
Last computer had an older (-R only) Pioneer (I think it was either an A5 or A5 model) and it worked well
Has anyone had experience with the Pioneer 111 and 16x media? I don't plan to actually burn at 16x but it would be really nice to have a drive that will even USE the current blank discs!

We have been using nothing but Pioneer since the A04 (DVR-104 is the OEM version of the same drive, as with all Pioneer drives)
We currently have the 107D, 109, 110, 111 and also still an older 105.
The drives that are High Speed capable we just don;t use at 16x, as we never burn faster than 4x for anything (What's the rush!)
Verbatim Data Life Plus, with Advanced Metal Azo dyes.

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No disc burning with a Pioneer DVR 111D using I-Tunes

I recently installed the Pioneer DVR 111D (rev 1.23) in my G4 550 running under Panther 10.3.9. I had to install the Patchburn to make it work.
Now it burns discs (dvd's) using the Finder, but not using I-Tunes.
Is there a fix?

my DVR 104 died a couple of weeks ago. went to OWC for a 111. it did the same with my Sawtooth at first, then downloaded Patchburn 3. I did notice that when Patchburn was on my Desktop, it wouldn't burn in iTunes, so I dragged the icon to my hard drive. then I went into iTunes and was able to burn from there. that may have been my initial problem. hope this helps.
G4-450MHZ AGP Mac OS X (10.3.9) FCP4

Just got my Pioneer DVR-111D, it's flippin' sweet!

Compared to my previous drive (sony DRU-820A) which took 29 minutes (excluding verification) to burn a 4.32GB DVD-R from the Finder at 16x, my new Pioneer DVR-111D burns a 4.32 GB in about 8 1/2 minutes (excluding verification) from the Finder at 16x.
Based on the suggestions from WWJD and Hussein I got the Pioneer 111D from Newegg.com for under $40; it came with the latest firmware 1.06 also!

Good to hear that the drive's working well.
Regards,

Pointing iDVD to Pioneer DVR-111D?

I've installed a second newer Superdrive in my MDD G4. It is a Pioneer DVR-111D. How do I change the preference in iDVD to burn a file with my new drive? With iDVD open and a disc in the new drive, iDVD only accesses my older Pioneer 104 and asks me to insert a disc.

What version of iDVD are you using? Version 6 has support for non-Apple installed drives. Can the drive burn from iTunes (for example)? Select the new drive in iTunes' preferences and see if iDVD sees the drive. When I was on 10.3.9 this is what I did to get iDVD to see the new drive.
Regards,

Installing Pioneer DVR 111D?

Since Apple doesn't appear to be addressing the issue of the Sony drives that won't read old DVDs. I went to NewEgg and got a Pioneer 111D and I am going to install that in the lower bay. How should the jumpers be set on this? I have removed the faceplate, anything else I need to know?

Well after reading many discussion forum posts I bought and installed two of the Pioneer DVR 111Ds, since my Sony units just stopped recognizing blank CDs and DVDs for burning (just as with many others' machines). Well, the Pioneer units worked fine..........for about 15 minutes. I burned several CDs and DVDs, no problems, but then, as with the Sonys after a few months, the Pioneers just stopped recognizing blank, burnable discs.
Is there anything else to try??? Very frustrating.
John
Mac Pro, 16GB ram, dual 3Ghz dual core Intel Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Installing a Pioneer DVR-111D...

Please bear with me as I have had no experience ever installing optical drives. But I am interested in upgrading my current stock combo drive to one of those spiffy new Pioneer DVR-111Ds that I keep hearing everyone talk about.
However my intial question is, what happens to the front slide door if I install a new drive in my G5? I don't exactly know the technical hardware term for it, but the one that's mac hardware specific and opens before the actual drive bay door slides out. Does that door still operate just as normal with a new drive or do I have to manually open it and disable it?
Lastly, whats up with all the flashing stuff I hear also? Flashing bios i presume? Which is another area in computers I have little experience in.
Any info would be great. Thanks!

Quite a bit about it here
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1900760#1900760
and more if you enter "111D" in the search box at top right of the forum.
The main point with keeping the silver optical drive gate operating smoothly is to remove the plastic bezel with "DVD", "CD", etc. on it from the front of the tray.
Sometimes the 'stand-offs' can be tricky, but there is some help here
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/pdf/g5/073-0807.pdf
Flashing is mentioned in the first link above, but shouldn't be necessary - esp. if you combo up to 10.4.7
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxupdate1047comboppc.html
Please post again if any of it isn't clear.

Removing door on Pioneer DVR-111d

Just purchased a new DVR-111D drive for my Power Mac and have been trying to remove the tray door without breaking anything. I've read to just "slide it off". Which direction does it slide? Are there any clips holding it on that need to be released? Other suggestions?
Thanks for the help.
Terry
Power Mac G4 1 GHz Dual Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Never mind. I found you push out on the bottom slightly (about 1" in from each end) and then slide the door cover up. Just couldn't see the 2 little clips with it being all black. On to the next step in the morning. Terry

Disk Utility not recognising Pioneer DVR-111D

I retrofitted this drive into my G4. I'm new to iDVD but have problems.
iDVD does not recognise this drive and keeps opening the original (CD only burning) drive and I can see no way to get it to open the Pioneer drive
iMovie was quite happy to save my movie project to a DVD using this drive.
Disk Utility sees both drives but when I put in a new DVD disc (I've tried several) it doesn't even spin the drive up and so I can't burn a disk image saved by iDVD.
Any suggestions? Thanks
Message was edited by: Roger Sinden

Do you have the MDD?
Did you use Cable Select for both? I assume you have both optical drives on same IDE bus.
End position needs to be master jumper and the middle needs to use slave jumper setting. or both need to use CS,

Just installed my new Pioneer DVR-111D, but one more question

The silver gate doesnt go down all the way when it opens...it stays open mid way only because of the open tray, so its bumping up against the bottom of the tray.
Is this normal????

ICarus,
yes, from what you say, this is normal.
The back of the door is a specially shaped "bump" to force the door down no near horizontal. As the tray opens it should push the door down, only making contact where the "bump" meets the bottom of the tray.
If you have other contact, or things jamming, it could be a sign that the DVR is situated just slightly too high or too low in the bay.
Can you confirm that you have removed the strip from the front of the tray ? This is the strip that makes up the "door" while the drive is in its "internal" format.

Can you burn dl disc in iDVD 5 with a Pioneer DVR-111D?

Guess I must have not posted that right the first time.

Is it installed as an internal drive? or and external burner?
iDVD 5 doesn't support external burners (directly).
See also : iDVD: Burning Double-Layer DVDs at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301557 and New SuperDrives support Double-Layer DVD burning at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301556

Reasonably new PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D will NOT RECOGNIZE CD's

I bought a new PIONEER DVR-111D drive to replace my old superdrive about 5-6 months ago.
All was fine and good until about 2 weeks ago when it was suddenly unable to recognize CD's. Audio CD's, blank CD's, my highly valued "must insert to play" Halo CD, etc...
I noted this problem originally when trying to burn a playlist on a CD and Toast would pop out an error message about "Wrong Media Type". They worked fine before. This only happens on CD's (and yes, I tried a few different brands) - not DVD's.
DVD's (Dual Layer & -R & +R) read/write/burn fine.
But when I put a CD in the tray and close it, out spits out the disc (and I've tried several different types) about 20 seconds later.
I've tried every option I could find to fix this issue including...
http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=440595&Main= 439419
(trashing com.apple.kernelcaches, trashing Extensions.kextcache and when those suggestiosn didn't work, trashing ~Home/Library/Preferences/CD Info.cidb - all to no avail)
I've uninstalled and then reinstalled Patchburn. Didn't work.
I used Preferential Treatment to fix my User Prefs and System Prefs.
Doesn't help.
Now Toast hangs whenever I try and insert a CD while its running - but when I use Toast's "Recorder Settings" to identify the drive it says CD-RW Yes and CD-R Yes.
I really can't understand why this is happening. Isn't the laser that writes to DVD's the same as the one for CD's? If so, where is this "recognition" issue (can't recognize CD's but has no problem with DVD's) happening?
Here's the System Info for this drive:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D:
Manufacturer: PIONEER
Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D
Revision: 1.23
Drive Type: CD-RW/DVD-RW
Disc Burning: Vendor Supported
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
I'd be very grateful for any help on this issue.
G4 - Quicksilver Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi-
There are two separate laser/laser lens for each of CD and DVD media. You could have lost the CD side. Could also be a blob of dust in the way.
Could try cleaning, or, try and get warranty replacement.
G4AGP(450)Sawtooth, 2ghz PowerLogix, 2gbRAM, RaptorSATAATA, ATI Radeon 9800 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Pioneer DVR-109, 23" ACD, Ratoc USB 2.0, QCam Ultra, Nikon Coolscan

DVR-111D vs Apple Superdrive

I'm planning to ad an internal DVR to replace the CD drive. My current thought is to buy either a Pioneer DVR-111D or an Apple Superdrive, which is really a Pioneer DVR-109 with Apple's native burning capabilities pre-installed. I know that to burn dual layer DVDs I will need to use Patchburn on either of the drives, and that replaces the pre-installed Apple native burning capabilities on the DVR-109.
Does anyone have an opinion on the better choice of the two drives? I know the DVR-111D is a newer model, but will that really be any kind of advantage in my old B&W g3? I really don't know what the limitations of my G3 are in this regard.
Thanks.

I can't comment on the DVR-109 but I have a DVR-111D and couldn't be happier with it. I paid $38 Canadian for it at a PC store. I pluged it in and it just worked, very Apple. I did not install PatchBurn. It shows up in System Profiler/Hardware/Disk Burning as follows:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D
Firmware Revision: 1.19
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 Stratagies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
I haven't yet burned a double-layer DVD yet but the format shows up under DVD-Write and the option shows up when choosing to burn in Toast. I have burned with both iTunes (music CDs) and Disk Utility (DVD images)--no PatchBurn required. It boots OS install disks, and is one of the few bits of hardware that you can get at an ElCheapo PC store that you can put into an Apple. I tried several Apple stores, none of them carried them. They had lots of $150 LaCie drives though (hmmmm). Don't tell anyone but there is no difference between the 111-D and the Superdrive, except for the price. Besides adding more memory to your G3 it's the most usefull/cost effective piece of hardware you can put into a G3.
Burn on....
P.S. It works in OS 9.2.2 and 8.6 too (no DVD read in 8.6 just CD)
G3 B&W/300mhz/1024M Mac OS X (10.4.7) Pioneer DVR-111D, PPL USB 2.0 + FireWire PCI card, Sonnet ATA-66 IDE, Maxtor DiMax-10 160 Gig HD
G3 B&W/300mhz/1024M Mac OS X (10.4.7)

DVR-111D Support for G3 (BW)

I just installed a superdrive (DVR-111D) in my G3. Once I had it installed it reads CDs and DVDs just fine. But it will not support burning with the native OS. I then tried installing Toast and burning Disks that way with the same results.
I checked for firmware updates with Pioneer but I found nothing for Mac. I reinstalled my OS and it still will not support burning. I am running 10.4, not sure where I am at on updates because I'm still updating. But I don't think that is the problem since I was up to date before reinstalling my OS.
Any ideas?

I'm a little surprised that Toast wasn't able to burn a DVD. Was Toast able to recognize your burner?
As far as the OS, OSX won't natively recognize the drive as a burner. You need something called Patchburn which will hack the installed drivers to allow supported burning in most if not all I-apps including the Finder. Try a Dogpile search for Patchburn for Tiger.
There were reports that the 10.4.6 update made some DVD burners native in Tiger.
My suggestion at this time is to update all the way to 10.4.6. If the burner is still not recognized, try Patchburn.

New Pioneer DVR-110 installed, "patchburned", BUT drive won't stay closed.

Have had some good advice on how to intall a new DVD/CD drive, but after installing a New Pioneer DVR-110 (I thought succesfully) on my G4, and downloading Patchburn for Panther, the DVD drive now won't function as the computer keeps ejecting or opening the drive tray.
After installing the drive, I installed Patchburn, and Toast did recognize the drive. I then tried to verify disc permissions on the computer and it kept getting hung up during repair/verify saying it lost connection with the drive manager. Tried Onyx to repair/verify permissions and it too gets hung up. (Had to force quit)
Any advice on how to get the drawer of the DVD drive to stay closed and what else I need to do to get it working?... Alas I can not even reinstall my original OSX software now as I can't boot from the disc drive since it won't stay closed.
Thanks, Rob
G-4 Quicksilver Mac OS X (10.3.9)

You can verify the closeness by opening the empty drive door with the KB and then hold the door open and close drawer with the KB.

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

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