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OK folks here goes... When I bought the machine it came with a combo-drive (it was new on a close-out deal, G5's had just come out) and I promptly purchased a Pioneer DVR-105, installed it in the top bay and moved the combo to the bottom. The bottom never burned anything (read CD's & music CD's fine) but that was OK the top was great burned and read everything.
I had lost all burning function through 10.4.* so I replaced the drive with a Pioneer DVR-112D and regained sporadic burning and reading function, of CD's and DVD's, and the bottom bay was unrecognized.
Fast forward to 10.5 the DVR-112D, recognizes, reads & writes DVD's (haven't tried the DL's yet) but will not read or write CD's or music CD's burned or otherwise. It sounds like it is trying to read and after a long while spits the tray out.
System profiler seems to recognize and bless the drive with the full litany of burning capabilities, and I'm at a loss. I recently put the DVR-105 back in the bay and it was working in the same capacity. I switched back because the 112 is much more capable.
Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks............. Perry

Hussein (New York) wrote:
When you moved the original drive to the lower bay, you must change the drive jumper from Master to Slave, failing to do so will likely render the drive unusable as the system cannot "see" it. Try reset the jumper on the back of the drive, and perhaps you can use that for CD's..
Like Perryb, I want to install a Pioneer DVD superdrive into my G4 (in my case a 115D) and was going to place it in the Zip drive bay. Thus two questions:
1 Can the new drive be placed as the lower drive or do I have to move the combo drive down and place it as the upper drive?
2 If I do move the combo down, where can I find the information about resetting the jumper from master to slave? (The profiler identifes the ATA drives as Combo = 0 and Zip = 1)
3 Do I have to set anything on the new superdrive before installation?
Thanks,
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