BDR-205 in macintosh

I have the same drive and have an answer for you. I have tried both a Pioneer DVR-216 and a Pioneer BDR-205. I can easily duplicate this problem. In prefs you have your (energy saver) set drives to sleep when possible. It seems that these Pioneer drives won't wake up. I don't like the option of not allowing my drives go to sleep. Not an option in my book. Only resort is to reboot, to wake the dvd drive. I am waiting on an LG WH10LS30K and will test with this model. My only recommendation is to pull the DVD drive and send it back to get a refund. I will post my results with the LG when I get it. Updating the FW in the Pioneer drives didn't help, in case your wondering.

Are you just basically having trouble getting Toast to select between your two disc burning drives?

Have you tried clicking here? :
!http://www.headspin.plus.com/store/toast driveselect.jpg!

Do you have physical control of the BD drive? To test, you can load the eject menu into your menubar - go to /System/Library/CoreServices/MenuExtras, and double-click on the "Menu.eject" file. You should get an Eject symbol in your menubar on the top right, which you can click on to choose a drive to eject/close.

Note also, if you have FCP7, you actually don't need Toast to burn a simple BD disk - the Blu-Ray burn option is under File - Share.

Matt

I've done further research and have a workable solution, so far so good, after 2 days. Open Apple script, enter the following code,

on idle
do shell script "drutil info"
end idle

Go to File> Save as, application, name the file BDR-205 poll tick the box stay open and save. I saved mine in the Utilities folder.
Next go to System Preferences, open accounts, select your account, select Login items, click the + box, navigate to the Utilities folder and select BDR-205 poll, click the padlock symbol, to save your changes. Exit System Preferences. Shut your machine down, do a cold boot. Upon startup, the script will be active, you'll see it in the right side of the dock. What this does is poll your drive every 30 sec
so it can't go to sleep. The only other thing is to purchase a different drive other than Pioneer, it's too bad Apple doesn't put a better DVD drive in the Macpro, but then again they make sure the original doesn't have this problem. This is a sleep issue in energy saver and the sata ports and how it interacts with certain DVD drives. Hope this helps.

Thanks for this code Gorloth it worked a treat.

I've tried this and it didnt work. Any idea what went wrong ?
Thanks

Dear Gorloth,

Thank you for your solution.
It worked for me. It is perfect.
However did you figure out why both Apple and Pioneer does not have fixes?

Anyway great many thanks!!

Yukio@Tokyo