Why won't it work?

[benp]

I have an external CD-R drive thats USB and mac os x reads it and I tried using burn but when the screen comes up the burn disc option isn't availible because it doesn't see a CD-R in the drive and in Toast it does the same.

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

What kind of USB drive is it (brand, speed, model #, etc.). Perhaps Mac OS X doesn't support that particular drive.

There are ways around unsupported drives, but we'll first find out if that is, in fact, the culprit.

 

[benp]

I know its supported because toast reads the drive and shows the model number and it shows it in the apple system profiler, I just keep getting errors when I try to burn something, and I know its not the CD.

 

[DeltaMac]

Hope you have USB 2, as USB 1.1 is hopelessly slow, and is not too practical for burning.

 

[benp]

its a USB drive, I don't really care about how fast it burns just as long as it does.

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

What speed are you trying to burn the disks at, and what is the exact error message you get?

 

[Cheryl]

What version Toast are you using? Toast usually works with everything.

 

[bobw]

What kind of USB drive is it (brand, speed, model #, etc.). Perhaps Mac OS X doesn't support that particular drive

 

[benp]

I've tried burning at 1x 2x and 4x. I always get this error

The drive reported an error:
Sense Key=UNIT ATTENTION
Sense Code=0x29
POWER ON,RESET,OR BUS DEVICE RESET OCCURRED

and I'm using Toast 6.0

 

[benp]

Also is there any way I can burn in Classic, it doesn't seem to read any CD-R in classic but maybe theres a way around that?

I'm on an iBook G4 so I can't boot into 9.x!

 

[Randman]

Have you checked the Roxio website and the website for the company that made your burner, just to doublecheck that a specific driver isn't needed?

 

[DeltaMac]

I've tried burning at 1x 2x and 4x. I always get this error

The drive reported an error:
Sense Key=UNIT ATTENTION
Sense Code=0x29
POWER ON,RESET,OR BUS DEVICE RESET OCCURRED

and I'm using Toast 6.0

After doing some search, this Unit Attention error is likely caused by a loss of power to the drive (or your drive just THINKS there's been a reset of the drive) also a Unit Attention error may be produced when the media (your disk) has been swapped at the wrong point during an attempted burn (or same as above, just THINKS that the CD has been swapped, when it really hasn't)
This might happen if you have 2 usb burners connected at the same time, or it could be a driver compatibility problem. My guess, FWIW, your burner is defective (test it on another computer)
Your question about burning from Classic? won't work because Classic cannot access hardware directly.

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

...or, if he's not using a power adaptor and trying to run the drive off of USB power alone.