Any experience with new Pioneer DVR-111D?

Yeah.
Go to "rpc1.org".
Look under the Mac Specific section and you'll see posts on some guy who installed one.

I just installed one last night. Installation was easy. However, you must remove the tray bezel or it will not open in the G5 tower. I also changed the jumper from Master to CS because that was the setting on my previous drive.

System Profiler recognized it. I was able to boot from it. It read CD-R/RW and DVD-R/RWs just fine.

Finder burning to CD-RW was fine. Burning to DVD (SL) in Toast 7.0.2 was fine. I made two DVD+R DL coasters in a row before figuring out that Toast must be set to burn at 2x DVD speed for my Ritek media (my previous drive was able to burn everything at the Best setting, but it only supported SL DVDs).

After burning one successful DL DVD the next DVD was another coaster. The only difference was that I burned the good one in the foreground and the bad one in the background. So I tried again, keeping Toast as the front app and the DVD was good. Coincidence? Maybe. Flaky media? Maybe. Just my computer? Maybe. A Toast/DL issue. Don't know. I'm just going to keep doing it that way until I find an answer.

I don't burn directly from any of the iApps very often so I can't report on that at this time.

I hope this was of some use to you.

Traci

G5 1.8 DP / 1gb RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6) A plethora of peripherals

Hey,

Did you have any compatibility issue, like profiler says unsupported in anyway (esp. in the Burn Support: YES (Unsupported) by any chance?)

thanks

Yes (unsupported) is not a compatability issue.

In Tiger, the ONLY thing this means is lack of DL Media support in iDVD5.01 (no issue in iDVD6).

The Finder, iApps will recognise & burn to the drive.

All it means is that there is no specifically tailored burn profile for that exact model.

In Jag & Panther you need PatchBurn.

Installed the DVR-111D with no problems and burned several successful discs. Even reads DVDs and CDs just fine. However, alluva sudden, the burning functionality is gone. I launched iDVD and it told me that there was no disc burner available. Opened my System profiler and saw the same thing.
(less than 24 hours after a successful burn and 48 hours after install).

I'm using 10.4.6 so patchburn should not be an issue. Could it hurt to download, or would it not work at all???

G5 Dual 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

G5 Dual 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I'd reboot the machine and check your cables.

Patchburn won't help at all, since the system doesn't think there's a drive attached.

But the system DOES recognize the drive. It's just that burning is unsupported. It even appears in the System Profiler now and says that the drive is a burning drive but reads:

Burn Support: Yes (unsupported)

Interestingly, iTunes is looking for the old 106D drive. Is there any way to "goose" the system into accepting the 111D as opposed to the now missing 106?

But the system DOES recognize the drive. It's just
that burning is unsupported. It even appears in the
System Profiler now and says that the drive is a
burning drive but reads:

Burn Support: Yes (unsupported)

It should burn. That's what showed for my Pioneer DVDR-110 with OSX 10.4.5 It worked fine. It became "Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)" with 10.4.6

Interestingly, iTunes is looking for the old 106D
drive. Is there any way to "goose" the system into
accepting the 111D as opposed to the now missing 106?

Go to the "Burning" pane of the "Advanced" preference in iTunes. You can select the new drive there.

Hi Traci,

I just installed the 111D and it shows up fine, but the tray gets stuck in my G5.
It's a little too tall. Do I really just have to tighten the screws some more?
What do you mean with "tray bevel", the actual face plate or the metallic shiny thing that were on my old drive (d106)?

For whatever reason, after the first dozen or so cycles, my drive door magically seemed to align itself so it doesn't jam anymore. The faceplate on the drive itself is a little taller than it needs to be (or Apple's design is a little stingier than it SHOULD be), but my experience is that the problem "self-corrected."

Tightening and/or subtly jiggering the drive a hair may allow you to overcome the issue if the G5 pixies don't fix it while you're sleeping...

Hi

The problem with not removing the unneeded faceplate (since Mac's all have an exterior faceplate), is that over time, any restriction of the tray will negatively effect the longevity of the mechanism; it's easier just to pop the faceplate off, and be confident there's no contact.

Just installed it.

I purchased this drive because my original 106 would burn discs and then couldn't mount them. Would then put burnt DVD-R into another computer, no problems mounting.

Time to update OS and apps so I thought I would get a new drive.
Running 10.3.9 and DVD Studio Pro 3.

Destination/Output Format (DVD Studio Pro) - .img (is now the default, no Standard DVD option)

Any ideas?



Dual 2GHz 1st Gen Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I also installed one today and it works just fine. I did set the jumper to Cable Select and had to remove the bezel (cover for the tray).

I have been burning DVDs all evening and not a single coaster ( using Toast).

I successfully put a DVR-111D in my G5 Dual 2.0 Ghz tower, with no problems. Installation was easy, but you do have to remove the front tray bezel (the black plastic thingy on the front of the tray, which snaps off) to get it to open and close without hanging up.

However, the installation instructions said that to achieve maximum burn speeds it would need an "80 wire cable". It still has the standard 40 pin IDE connector on the drive. How do you put an 80 wire cable on this connector? What do I need to do to get to 12x and 16x burn speeds?



G5 Dual 2.0 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

G5 Dual 2.0 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

The 80 wire cables still use 40 pin connectors. The extra wires improve the signal transmission and allows higher speed. Your computer may already have 80 wire cable. If not, you can get one at a computer store.

Even with the correct cable there could be problems with 16 X. The hard drive may not keep up if other things are going on.