LaCie DVD burner almost a waste of money?
Has anyone with OSX 10.3.9 got a LaCie 22x d2 DVD +/-RW Drive to write DVDs from the Finder?
I have an Apple iBook Power PC G4 with an internal drive which writes only CDs.
I bought the LaCie d2 Drive [ Product code 301484EK ] so I could write DVDs.
It has the latest Firmware v1.20 ( Oct 4 2009 ).
I have used the supplied DVD-ROM to install the software and it showed a message
"Install LaCie DiscRecording Support
The software was successfully installed
Click Restart to finish installing the software."
I did a Restart as required.
It does write DVDs from Toast7 Basic, included on the DVD-ROM sent with the Drive, but it will not write DVDs from the Finder.
Finder/File/ does not show the expected option "New Burn Folder" which is what I expected from LaCie Support web site - as the following link claims:
http://www.lacie.com/us/support/support_manifest.htm?id=10113&article=1065
I have spent countless hours exchanging emails with LaCie Tech Support but they do not have a solution.
http://www.lacie.com/UK/mystuff/ticket/ticket.htm?id=101666718
At the request of LaCie Tech Support, the software has also been downloaded from
http://www.lacie.com/us/support/drivers/driver.htm?id=10055
but no improvement.
The LaCie DVD Writer does appear in System Profiler, but Disc Burning is shown as "Not Supported".
I have used Firewire connections as LaCie recommended, but I get the same poor results using USB, DVDs, CDs.
I have tried to use Disk Utility to burn a disk image on a blank DVD on the LaCie drive, but that does not work either.
Although I can manage to write DVDs using Toast, so my main requirement has been met, it is unsatisfactory to have bought new equipment directly from the manufacturer only to find that the claimed features do not all work.
Have I just been wasting my time expecting this drive to work as LaCie claimed with OSX 10.3.9?
I see other users have had trouble with LaCie even with OSX more recent than 10.3.9.
See:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3306858?start=0&tstart=0
I recently purchased an LaCie DVD writer d2 DVD + / - 22.
and
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/445220?start=0&tstart=0
LaCie DVD burner total waste of money
So I am still asking
"Has anyone with OSX 10.3.9 got LaCie 22x d2 DVD +/-RW Drive to write DVDs from the Finder?"
iMac G4
