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.
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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.

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,

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)

IDVD 5 Pioneer DVR 109 and OS 10.4.3: Double layer support ?

My Pioneer DVR 109 (non Apple firmware) hasn´t been recognized by iDVD as a double layer drive. I heard rumors that from 10.4.3 on many non Apple drives will be supported by the system and indeed when clicking the profiler it now says APPLE SUPPORTED instead of VENDOR SUPPORTED. Unfortunately, when opening iDVD there is still only the 4 GByte option available. Any thoughts or ideas what this means?
Thanks and regards
Wolfgang Fogel

If you happened to buy your 109 from MCE Technologies, or some other vendor that provided an installer to provide iDVD native double layer support, use the uninstaller supplied by the vendor (or call their tech support department).
If I understand it properly the file that was modified under these schemes was System/library/frameworks/DiskRecording.frameworks/Version/A/Frameworks /DiscRecordingEngine.framework/Version/A/Resources/
VendorSupport.drprofile. The original should have been renam ed,saved and replaced with one from the vendor.
Now you will need to restore the original.

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

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

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
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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,

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.

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.

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)

Mitsubishi DVD-R DL video CPRM disks rejected by iDVD6 with Pioneer DVR-111

As the title says, iDVD6 rejects my Mistubishi DVD-R DL CPRM discs.
I am trying to burn a 7.5 gig video project. iDVD says "Can't burn to single layer disc" after insertion. I have a new Pioneer DVR-111 in a DP 2Ghz G5 3gig RAM.
CPRM seems to be the culprit.
Any ideas, suggestions welcome.
DP 2Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

'CPRM' was Pioneers attempt to put copy protection on writable media. It stands for Content Protection for Recordable Media. You will see a serial number code in the silver ring closest to the center that is used in CPRM.
None of the other manufacturers picked up on CPRM and I though it was dead. It shouldn't interfer with normal use of the media.
In general on the forum, although we recommend DVD-R for single-layer discs, we recommend DVD+R for double-layer discs.
F Shippey

Is Pioneer DVR-117D a doubleLayer recorder?

Hi , I have a G5 with a Pioneer DVR-117D writer. I want make a project with DvdStudio Pro , and it needs 8Gb for file sices. Can I burn a DVD9 with my hardware? thanks!

according to this article:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2005/05/duallayerdawn/index.php
it's mechanically a 108, but its firmware disables double layer burning. you can update the firmware, but this probably voids your warranty, etc, etc.
I'd point out that we've had sporadic problems with 108 and 109 drives, which have gone away with the 110. on DVD-Audio titles, these manifested as dropouts, and on DVD-Video, skipping. We were using media rated for the drive speed, burning at the rated speed. The 110 seems to have cleared up whatever was happening, so we're replacing all the older drives with 110s now.
newegg,com is selling internal Pioneer 110's for $45 each, by the way. hard to beat a deal like that...
-perry

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