OS9 and a DVD burner... How do I make it work???

Hi xxadamxx;

First of all let me welcome you to the Apple Discussion Forum.

From the sounds of what you are doing it sounds like you are really pushing the envelope as far as OS 9 goes. What yoou are attempting to do may be the push to get you over to OS X. I think you will find most of the software on OS X has been vastly improved over the OS 9 versions.

Allan

i can burn dvd-r and dvd+r's in OS 9.2.2 with toast titanium 5.2.3 useing my pioneer dvr-110D, but for some reason i cant read the dvd+r media but toast can see it and use it. the finder gives me a unreconized disk window asking me to initalize the disk. but i have no problems with dvd-r media. its not the drive it dont matter who burned it i cant read dvd+r i dunno why i cant but i can burn them and toast can see them but not finder

So you got a Pioneer DVR-110 to work under OS 9. Great! Does is read and burn CDRs correctly? And can it play commercial DVD movies?
I was going to buy a DVR-111 from OtherWorld Computing, but they told me that there is no OS-9 support. So if the DVR-110 does work, I'll get one of those. It will be going into an external firewire case and hooked up to a Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet).


iMac, Powerbook, G4 Mac OS 9.2.x

Chuck12563

See this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=424758&tstart=0

I just purchased & installed the same DVR-111D (Internal) from OWC and it works fine -- with the help of the folks on this forum

Good luck,

Geoff

yes my pioneer works fine. i have to use toast to burn DVD+R/RW but OS 9.2.2 wont read them cause +R/RW media is not supported. i can burn CDR/RW DVD-R/-RW with finder and i can burn with iTunes with the help of a modded pioneerCD autoring extention.

But if the hdd goes to sleep the system will lockup on wakeup on mine so i have to make energy saver to not allow the IDE drives to go to sleep only monitor's can. i have found out what causes it its the apple cd/dvd driver extention, yea its the extention that runs the optical drive if its not enabled the drive will not work. but also my system will wake up fine with the ide asleep enabled.

i have had no errors burning at max speed with CDR/RW's ive burned as fast as *x with dvd-r/-rw with no error's havent tryed any faster DVD-R/-RW.

but i was able to read the DVD+R media in Os X 10.2.8 but could not burn to DVD+R/RW in in OS X finder but can burn everything else with patchburn installed.

" i can burn CDR/RW DVD-R/-RW with finder and i can burn with iTunes with the help of a modded pioneerCD autoring extention."

I'm having no luck burning from OS 9.2.2 iTunes 2.0.4 to my internal Pioneer DVR-111. How can I obtain that extension you mentioned? Thanks
FlatHat@comcast.net

Mac OS 9.2.x

Frank McHugh...

RE: Mac OS 9 Sleep

I have ditched the Energy Saver Control Panal completely and added in the Insomnia Extension found on the install CD.

Several times my iMac or eMac dozed off even with the Energy Saver Control Panal removed. I goofed on a few CDs by not adding in the Insomnia Extension even though Energy Saver wasn't installed on.

Well, think as to why the Insomnia Extension created in the first place? Sure artnum=8000 claims it to be a PowerBook and iBook issue, but I question that after my desktop computers have dozed off.

BTW Mac OS 10 Installs are not protected from sleeping. I guess one has to "wag the mouse" 😉

...Ron

i purchased a sony dru-820a internal dvd burner and tried it in 2 different G4's, a 450 and a quicksilver with a 1.7 accelorator in it. both machines were running os 9.2.2 with toast titanium 5.2.3. i was able to burn cd's without issue as well as play commercial dvd's on both machines, but every dvd that i tried to burn would seem fine and verify alright, but i would get the same unrecognized format window in the finder, i checked those same burned dvd's on a machine running os 10.2.8 and it couldn't read them either. i tried changing almost every single setting and burning a new dvd and still wound up with the same result, in fact, if i try to get the disc info in toast it says that it is in "unrecognized format". is this a drive compatability issue? would getting a pioneer burner help me fix these issues?

Hello,
I need help, please!
I have G4 with OS 9.2,Toast 5.2.3
And I've bought Pioneer DVR 110D inside the
Conceptronic box with USB2 connection.
And the Toast write's the message that "No CD recorder is found".
What should I do???!!

Hi mikmik.

Sorry for the bad news, but USB 2 isn't supported under OS 9.x.x., only USB 1.

I'm very sure you won't want to burn DVDs via USB 1 (never mind trying to burn a CD via USB 1).

Kevin