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10.4.8 KO's Pioneer DVD burner

I have an original Mac Mini that I put a Pioneer RW DVR/K06RS optical drive in. Now with the 10.4.8 update the drive is unable to burn CDs.

The drive still shows up in Profiler, however was not recognized by iTunes as a burner. I ran PatchBurn and the drive showed up in iTunes, however burning is extremely slow and grinds to a halt after about 10 minutes. iTunes then reports that the burn speed is set too high, but the speed selected is the lowest possible. There seems to be a few discussions appearing on Google referring to this burner as a problem, but I do not understand the discussions.

This drive is not an "Apple supported burner", although I bought it from Other World Computing and it worked fine before 10.4.8. Is it possible the CD media is wrong for this cranky burner? Does anyone have a suggestion what to do?

Original Mini 1.42, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Dec 2, 2006 1:21 PM

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10.4.8 KO's Pioneer DVD burner

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