Replace the original optical drive with a Pioneer DVR-116DBK?

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Replace the original optical drive with a Pioneer DVR-116DBK?

I already have an elderly Pioneer DVD-108 in the spare optical bay and want to replace the now rather dodgy original optical drive with a Pioneer DVR-116DBK. When installing the DVR-108 under Panther I had to use PatchBurn as I recall. DVRflash now seems to be the tool used to apply firmware upgrades so I assume that PatchBurn is no longer necessary? In readiness, I've twice downloaded the latest firmware from Pioneer (DVR-116D_FW109EU2.exe) but this seems to only partly open up with Stuffit to a file A0815001.109, a file R116D.exe and a file with no name which VirusBarrier reports is corrupt? Is the firmware upgrade really necessary and will the DVR-116 run "straight from the box"? MTIA

Mirror Drive Door G4, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 1.25Ghz SP, OSX/10.5.6, 1792Mb

Posted on Mar 11, 2009 2:08 PM

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japamac

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Mar 11, 2009 3:47 PM in response to parkside19

Hi-

The DVR-116 will have "out of the box" support in Leopard.
Tn Panther, and up to 10.4.9 Tiger, you stil need Patchburn for iApplication burn support.
There should be no reason to apply any firmware updates with a new drive, unless you desire some additional media support, or want to flash to rpc1.

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Mar 11, 2009 3:59 PM in response to parkside19

Patchburn was used back in the day when the various iApps (and other apps using OS X's drive burning framework) wouldn't burn to a drive that OS X didn't view as "supported" - "supported" meaning it had an Apple firmware or the drive vendor supplied a driver for it. Tiger made substantial improvements to the drive burning frameworks so Patchburn wasn't really needed anymore. In any event, PatchBurn didn't change the drive's firmware in any way - it just made an unsupported drive become "supported".

The firmware upgrade isn't necessary, per se, but having the latest firmware will improve the burn reliability with various media, among other things.

First, turn off VirusBarrier when you're UnStuffing the file. It may cause problems. I'm not sure why you get a third file - when I download the archive, it only contains the first two files you mentioned. The R116D.exe is the Windows flasher program that DVRFlash replaces on the Mac. You can safely ignore this file. The .109 file is the actual firmware file that DVRFlash needs to flash the drive.

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parkside19 Author

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Mar 12, 2009 12:52 AM in response to parkside19

Thanks for the replies, it's reassured me and I'll now go ahead:-)

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