Pioneer DVR 111-D

What exactly were those jumper settings? My DVR-111 is not being seen by my G4 at all. According to the little bit of info that came with the drive, jumper 1 is master, which is what should work. But is 1 on the left, or right? Anyway, I tried both, and neither worked. What's wrong? =(

Should be OK. It is just the newer version from Pioneer. Remember to remove the drive tray's faceplace before installing in your machine.

Regards,

Go to System Profiler and see what Disc Burning shows. Do you have an MDD?

Disc Burning shows for me:

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110D:

Firmware Revision: 1.39
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No

The drive is set to Cable Select? Cables and Power connection firm?

Regards,

The Pioneer 111 works great in a Mac. You can even update the firmware to support DVD-RAM burning. You might want to read this link:

Pioneer DVR-111D in a Mac
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2006-03-19/#5279

My system profiler show:

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111:

Firmware Revision: 1.19
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)
Profile Path: None
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RAM, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No

Unsupported? Why?

PM Dual 1.8 GHz PPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

With OSX 10.4.5 my Pioneer DVR-110 also showed
"Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)"
but everything worked fine.

Now I have upgraded to OSX 10.4.6 it shows
"Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)"

Maybe the same will happen for the DVR-111 in a future OSX update.
Apple was shipping DVR-110s with some G5s. They will probably switch to the DVR-11 now.

Hmm... in 10.4.7 nothing new!
DVR-111 unsupported.

PM Dual 1.8 GHz PPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

OK, figured it out! After trying every possible jumper setting, as well as different power cables (I must have rebooted a dozen times!), my problem was a damaged IDE cable =S It was crimped by a rivit near the door hinge. Once I freed it and massaged the crimp out, all is well. I didn't have to take the faceplate off, and it fits and ejects find from my machine (2-door quicksilver). I ran PatchBurn, though Toast seemed good to go without it (I don't use iTunes or anything else to burn from this system- for crunching Photoshop only).

I left the jumper on the far left, as it was from the factory. Evidently Pioneer counts their jumpers from right to left 1-5.

Jeff

The right position (closest to the flat cable) is Master. You have it on Cable Select (which is OK with the right cable).
You don't need PatchBurn with Tiger or iDVD 6.