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Topic Starter	Topic: DVD Burner woes on my G5
Doombrain Kempston Joy Joined: 11 Aug 2000 Posts: 48594	Posted: 09-15-2005 06:12 AM                    Fucking thing. Just when I need to backup 7gig of photos. I put my files into Toast and click to burn. I can hear the drive spin up, then spin down. After 5 or 6 goes at it Toast reports buffer under run errors. Even on my lite-on external burner I have issue where if I put a DVD disk in it spits it out reporting 'disk not supported'. I've firewired my files to another G5 and burnt them. I'm just about to reinstall the OS. Any ideas?
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Canis canis Joined: 14 Jan 2001 Posts: 17305	Posted: 09-15-2005 07:02 AM                  I've had that problem with my drive. I used patchburn to give the thing native support, but it still gives me that error every now and then. I've always solved it with a reboot. I also noticed this problem occurs mostly when I use 3rd party software like Fast DVD Copy 4 as opposed to using the OS for burning.
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Doombrain Kempston Joy Joined: 11 Aug 2000 Posts: 48594	Posted: 09-15-2005 07:32 AM                    Humm. Just finishing software update now. It's been fine for months. If this doesn't sort it I’m on the phone to apple.
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Canis canis Joined: 14 Jan 2001 Posts: 17305	Posted: 09-15-2005 09:13 AM                  Is it a built-in drive from Apple or is it one you installed yourself?
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Doombrain Kempston Joy Joined: 11 Aug 2000 Posts: 48594	Posted: 09-15-2005 09:38 AM                    It's a superdrive
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Canis canis Joined: 14 Jan 2001 Posts: 17305	Posted: 09-15-2005 10:11 AM                  An Apple OEM one? I got a pioneer DVR-109 and it's not supported by apple but it's still a superdrive. It not being supported is where I believe my problems lie.
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Dave Privates Investigator Joined: 15 Jan 2000 Posts: 31412	Posted: 09-15-2005 03:16 PM                  if you can get the drive working again, try burning at 1x. I have some discs that pull that shit, but the drive never blows up in the process
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Doombrain Kempston Joy Joined: 11 Aug 2000 Posts: 48594	Posted: 09-16-2005 12:05 AM                    It's a Pioneer 106D. I should get a chance to test the reinstall today. I'll try at x1.
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Doombrain Kempston Joy Joined: 11 Aug 2000 Posts: 48594	Posted: 09-16-2005 02:46 AM                    I got it working but not very well. I've called Apple. they are sending someone out on Monday. Cheers.
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