I recently bought a Pioneer P-105 internal CDRW-DVDRW drive for my QuickSilver, and while it works well with CD's and as a DVD reader, I was disappointed to find out that my Jaguar system has no software that allows it to write to DVD disks. I don't have any version of iDVD on my Mac because I never had a SuperDrive before, though I may be able to extract version 2 from my old Mac OS X 10.0 installation disk with some difficulty. Before I try this, does anyone know whether iDVD2 will work with a Pioneer drive? Is there any other inexpensive or free software that will allow DVD recording on an internal Pioneer 105? All I'm after is to make a backup on a DVD disk.
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G4/1.3 ghz Cube, 20" iMac 2.16 ghz Core 2 duo, 1.42 mhz Mini, G4/1.33 15" AI PowerBook, G3/400 Pismo
I have a Pioneer A-05 DVD-R drive that I put in a B&W G3 with a 500Mhz. G4 CPU. I haven't used iDVD2 much but I did make one test video DVD and it worked fine.
I noticed some occasional crashes with the drive when I had a CD in it at startup . When I reinstalled X.2 the crashes disappeared.
It turns out that you don't need any additional software to make data backups. You can do it right from the Finder, dragging files to your DVD disk and burning it with the Burn Disk command when ready. I also found out about a shareware application for this, called Blaze ($20). I haven't tried it yet so I don't know what things it can do beyond the Finder and Disk Utility (which erases DVD-RW's). [img]smile.gif[/img]
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G4/1.3 ghz Cube, 20" iMac 2.16 ghz Core 2 duo, 1.42 mhz Mini, G4/1.33 15" AI PowerBook, G3/400 Pismo
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