I just got delivery of my Pioneer DVR-108 DVD superdrive for my PowerMac G4 MDD. Anyway, I installed it in my lower bay, and kept my original Combo Drive in my upper bay. Connected power to both, as well as IDE. Made sure both are on Cable Select. Started her up, and applied Patchburn II to my DVR-108. My DVR-108 is not recognized.

Anyway, basic question: Um, how do I actually get my DVR-108 to eject in the lower bay?? When I press my eject key on my Apple Pro, only my Combo Drive in my upper bay ejects?? What am I doing wrong? Quote: Originally posted by DigitalDreamer: I have the same ejection problem with my Pioneer 105.

I use to eject any third-party drives. What's Patchburn II? Regards, MAJ Edit: Nevermind! I see you've got it. Happy burning! Patchburn II installs an 'Apple Hacked' ATAPI driver for any(I think) unsupported MacOS X optical drive. This allows for i app (iTunes, iDVD) burning.

Once I applied it, MacOS X's finder recognized my DVR-108, and placed a little eject menu selection icon on the main menu. This icon allows me to independantly eject either my Combo Drive or my Super Drive, without any third party apps.

If you have the time, please take a stopwatch to some 12x burns in Toast or whatever. Finder does not support burning above 8x.

It should take 7 minutes for a full 4.4 GB disc. If your 12x burns are taking longer, then the built-in controller used for the optical drives is bottlenecking your DVR-108.

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Of the media I've tested, the following will can burn at 12x: Ridata (Ritek) 8x DVD-R Verbatim (Mitsubishi Chem.) 8x DVD-R and 8x DVD+R The following burn at 16x: Apple (Maxell) 8x DVD-R Memorex (CMC Mag.) 8x DVD-R. Quote: Originally posted by Celos: Oh, OK. Glad I asked, since I was thinking of getting one. So if you plop the 108 in there and don't apply these hack things, I assume it works with DVD Studio Pro, Toast, etc., right? You just can't burn in the Finder, iTunes, iDVD?

A limitation but not a showstopper for me. NewEgg is charging more for a refurbed 107 than they are for an OEM 108. IApp support isn't there for the DVR-108, unless you use PatchBurn II, which basically gives the DVR-108 an Apple-Hacked ATAPI driver. For dual layer burning with the DVR-108, as of now, only Toast Ti 6.0.7 supports it. I have to get that and test a Dual layer DVD-R.

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I'm not even sure who has Dual layer 4x DVD-R media yet?? Or DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD-RW for that matter. DVD-R is the way to go for write-once formats.

DVD+R that I burn in my DVR-108 tend not to read on Macs with older DVD-ROM drives.or even my old DVR-104. As for the rewritable discs, I've never had problems reading DVD+RW and DVD-RW in any of my drives. It's funny to me that +RW is more compatible than +R. +R DL is also more compatible than single-layer +R. I can only guess that this is due to bitsetting usage. The DVR-108 automatically sets the booktype of DVD+R DL to 'DVD-ROM.'

I guess it also does this with the rewritable formats. No, I don't know why burners don't just burn all discs with the DVD-ROM booktype. As far as branded media goes, Memorex media is pretty lame. Their primary OEM, CMC Magnetics, has a terrible reputation. Verbatim and Maxell DVD-R are very good premium brands. Apple branded discs are made by Maxell. Ridata brand DVD-R are pretty good among the second-tier brands.

Other people seem to love Taiyo Yuden discs, but I think they're pretty average, reliabilitywise. As for -RW, I'd probably stick with Verbatim or Maxell again. With +RW, it's an easier choice.

I've purchased Ridata, TDK and Fujifilm 4x DVD+RW only to find out they're all the same discs made by Ricoh. Quote: Originally posted by kidsafe: DVD-R is the way to go for write-once formats. DVD+R that I burn in my DVR-108 tend not to read on Macs with older DVD-ROM drives.or even my old DVR-104. As for the rewritable discs, I've never had problems reading DVD+RW and DVD-RW in any of my drives. It's funny to me that +RW is more compatible than +R. +R DL is also more compatible than single-layer +R. I can only guess that this is due to bitsetting usage.

The DVR-108 automatically sets the booktype of DVD+R DL to 'DVD-ROM.' I guess it also does this with the rewritable formats. No, I don't know why burners don't just burn all discs with the DVD-ROM booktype. As far as branded media goes, Memorex media is pretty lame. Their primary OEM, CMC Magnetics, has a terrible reputation.

Verbatim and Maxell DVD-R are very good premium brands. Apple branded discs are made by Maxell. Ridata brand DVD-R are pretty good among the second-tier brands. Other people seem to love Taiyo Yuden discs, but I think they're pretty average, reliabilitywise. As for -RW, I'd probably stick with Verbatim or Maxell again. With +RW, it's an easier choice.

I've purchased Ridata, TDK and Fujifilm 4x DVD+RW only to find out they're all the same discs made by Ricoh. Cool, thanks. I actually just purchased my first DVD-R: A Samsung DVD-R to test. I hope Samsung is ok. In the future, I'll go with Verbatim or Apple Maxwell. Yeah, I just got gifted a 108 too - nice drive, but until the region free firmware is available on macs, it'll be less useful to me than the 107 would be.R is the way to go IMO - I've made too many +R coasters, though that may speak more about quality of the media than the type.

I have yet to fool around with any RW media - I'm a cheap bastard. Anyone have info about burning for compatibility? I've burned several disks that play fine in newer DVD players, but fail in my old DVD player. I'm assuming that there's something simple that I'm missing.

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