Hoping some of you can help me with some issues I am having with a Pioneer DVR-116 burner that I just got. I have a MDD 867 dual mac with 2.0 gigs of ram. I just added the last 512 chip of ram and that seems to check out.
There are some strange things going on with this. So let me try and explain. After reboot, drive burns fine up to about 4 gigs, anything more than that and I get a coaster along with needing to restart my mac. Been using toast 6 mainly, when I insert disk, it appears as a DVD with the disk icon. Open toast and then I will notice that a second disk icon appears, then after about a minute or so, a third will appear and so on, had up to 7 icons listed. After the burn, I have to eject all those icons to get rid of them. The first burn is usually successful. Anything after the first burn is a crapshoot. I have seen the DVD icon change to a CDR icon and I have seen the DVD icon change to just a burn folder icon. Once this happens, its a guaranteed coaster. I have the drive in my second bay running as slave. OS is Tiger 4.11. The only way that seems to fix this is to restart. Sometime it will lock the computer up forcing a hard restart.
Can anyone help with this? Bought the burner through OWC.com and it was matched to my system however it didnt come packaged in an original box and no paperwork for the drive itself either, so I am wondering if its a crap drive...thoughts?
There are some strange things going on with this. So let me try and explain. After reboot, drive burns fine up to about 4 gigs, anything more than that and I get a coaster along with needing to restart my mac. Been using toast 6 mainly, when I insert disk, it appears as a DVD with the disk icon. Open toast and then I will notice that a second disk icon appears, then after about a minute or so, a third will appear and so on, had up to 7 icons listed. After the burn, I have to eject all those icons to get rid of them. The first burn is usually successful. Anything after the first burn is a crapshoot. I have seen the DVD icon change to a CDR icon and I have seen the DVD icon change to just a burn folder icon. Once this happens, its a guaranteed coaster. I have the drive in my second bay running as slave. OS is Tiger 4.11. The only way that seems to fix this is to restart. Sometime it will lock the computer up forcing a hard restart.
Can anyone help with this? Bought the burner through OWC.com and it was matched to my system however it didnt come packaged in an original box and no paperwork for the drive itself either, so I am wondering if its a crap drive...thoughts?
