Replacing CD Drive For G3 B&W

Hi

Get a Pioneer DVR-110D ($40 online, try newegg.com); B&W G3's will not accept many drives due to the different (than G4) firmware on the B&W Motherboard.

DVD-RAM drives cannot burn either CD's or DVD's; it can only use specific DVD-RAM media.

Hi

You don't have DVD Player installed, since you did not have a DVD drive before this.

DVD PLayer.app cannot be downloaded, dragged from another disc, etc., it has to be installed.

Your options are to re-install the OS (if the drive will allow you to boot the OS installer CD's), or to use Pacifist to extract & install DVD Player.app

The directions are different for Jag vs. Panther, so please post back with the correct info, and I can outline the process.

Apple's DVD-RAM drive variations

Panther.

Pacifist for Panther DVD PLayer.app directions: download the shareware Pacifist (search on www.versiontracker.com) with this shareware you can extract & install individual components.


1)With the OS Install disc 1 in your mac, open Pacifist.

2)Select "Open Mac OS X Install Packages" and Pacifist will load the packages folder on the discs (you'll have to feed it all three discs).

3)Select the arrowhead "Contents of EssentialSystemSoftware.mpkg"

4)select the arrowhead "Contents of Essentials.mpkg"

5) Select the arrowhead in front of the Applications folder

6)Select "DVD Player.app"

7)Select "Install" from Pacifist menu

8)Enter your password at the prompt
you're good to go.

Hi,
I recently removed my Cd-rom and replaced it with a DVD -Rom.
I installed 10.3 and upgraded to 10.3.9 I have a problem with the app. DVD Player. It opens and then unexpectedly quits.
I removed this dvd and put it into a G4 and it worked fine. Just will not in my B & W.
Any ideas?
thanks,
John

cue reminds of a video card issue...

some of the BWG3's that came with CDROM drives had ATI Rage128 16MB video cards.

some of the BWG3's that came with DVDROM drives had ATI Rage128 Pro 16MB video cards.

The ATI Rage128 Pro is similar to the regular one but has a DVD addon module to allow DVD video to play.

If I recall OSX 10.3.x DVD player app has DVD decoding through Software now, but your computer might need a better end video card.
A Radeon series card, like the 7000 or 9200 perhaps.

I might be wrong but thats what it sounds like.

Hello,

I have G3 Blue & White running OS 10.1. It has the original Matshita CD-ROM-CR-589 drive that came from Apple. Is this CD-ROM drive not capable of burning/writing CD-R's? I have iTunes installed and it will not recognize hardware for burning disks.

Also, when I insert a blank CD-R, nothing happens. Disk does not mount / nothing appears on-screen, no prompts. No options to try burning a disk or even recognize any blank CD media in machine, but drive does recognize CD-ROM disks with data and audio CD's just fine and plays/runs them.

Is this just because this CD-Rom drive model can't burn disks, or am I missing a driver or something? Seems strange that -- though a very old machine -- this drive would come from Apple incapable of burning/writing...

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Can't find any specs online that definitively answer these questions.

-J.

Power Mac G3 (Blue & White) Mac OS X (10.1.x)

NO, there are no CD-ROM drives that burn CDs. By definition CD-ROMs do not have that ability. The "R" "O" stands for READ ONLY.

It is not odd that the B&W did not come with a CD burner. At the time it was made a CD burner would have cost a couple hundred dollars.