Recent content by vic20owner

I received my replacement superdrive (110D) and it seems to be working great. I can burn cd's, read dvds, and tested booting from cd. All works. Have not tried burning a DVD but have no reason to believe it won't work. I guess there are a ton of defective DVR-110Ds out there.

This sounds like a common problem, with superdrives... i bought a brand new one which had the same problem... no idea whats going on here but it's not software or firmware related. Try cleaning it just for grins.

Man, I bought one of these drives and it would read dvd's but not cd's. Patchburn did see it, but I couldnt get it configured right. I sent it in on RMA and have a replacement drive on the way... will post results when it arrives.

Excellent. Thanks for posting this! I have a DVR-100D in the mail...

So it's possible to use the standard firmware? I was under the impression that the firmware had to be customized for the mac (for booting, etc)? Thanks

Jumpers correct? Tried new cdrom drive without harddrive installed? Replaced IDE cable?

Hmmm...my ipod is windows formatted and it's readable but not writeable in osx. How do I format the ipod as fat32 rather than ntfs (assuming here that it's ntfs, I don't know for sure).

Are you using the ultrawide ata cable or a standard ide cable? I've heard of problems with the standard cable. Also, double check to make sure cables are connected securely (you knew that though). I just bought a DVR-110D which wouldn't read cds at all but would play dvds. I sent it back on...

Try https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/optical-drives/superdrives/ The prices are better....

Hi I just purchased a Pioneer DVR-110D DVD-RW drive from macsales based on recommendations found here. I installed it in my G4 AGP Sawtooth running OSX 10.3.x and it doesn't read my media. While it shoes up in system profiler, and it will successfully play one of my dvds, inserting any other...

Thanks for the info. I'll guess I'll have a quick look around for the rom image and then decide...

Will this card (Radeon 7000, non mac version) work with my G4 sawtooth? I'm running OSX 10.3.9 (panther). I installed this card and the machine booted but the screen was black... reinstalled the orginal ATI card and the machine worked fine. It's the non-mac version so I'm not sure if it'll...

For what it's worth, I have a guess as to why it was slow... I'm new to maxosx so if I'm wrong then it's no surprise, but here are some things I noticed: 1) When installing, machine felt really sluggish... 2) After installing base system...response really snappy... I read somewhere that...

Thanks, will do.

Whooohoo! thanks guys. I installed a 120GB 7200 RPM drive, and then installed osx. Everything is running nice and fast. All applications launch within two bounces (instead of 60-150). I haven't done an update yet... honestly I'm afraid. Is there anything in the update which could slow me...