Finiksa said:Not all PC burners are compatible, they may work by they won't have native disk burning or iApp support.
Apple mostly use Pioneer drives, get a DVR-107 model and it should work.
osprey76 said:The DVR 107 worked fine for me. It's recognized natively in OS X and that's the drive shipping in the latest Macs with Superdrives.
What Mac are you running? I have a Gigabit era machine and haven't had any issues at all. All I had internally up to the upgrade was the Apple DVD player (no burning capability.)
ump3 said:I've a G4 867Mhz Quicksilver running 10.2.8. I don't really want to be patching and hacking to get it to work, surely there must be plug n play replacement drive.
Thanks
ump3 said:I've a G4 867Mhz Quicksilver running 10.2.8. I don't really want to be patching and hacking to get it to work, surely there must be plug n play replacement drive.
Thanks
seamuskrat said:What is officially supported and what works is very different. The actual Apple Superdrive is the same drive with a different firmware (I am 99% sure this is accurate) and in the case of the 107D, the OEM drive has full capability while the Superdrive is crippled with no DVD+ support.
ump3 said:I called Pioneer this afternoon and the tech guy said that the 107 is not officially compatible with the Mac
ump3 said:Does it have to be a 107D (as opposed to a 107? are there 2 models even?)
Finiksa said:Basically you aren't going to find any other brand with native support, Apple only include native support for brands they ship from the factory. Which leaves Pioneer and a small number of Sony drives with native support.
ump3 said:do you know If I update the firmware so it runs with 10.2.8 ( using pathcburn1.1 as per xlr8yourmac.com) if I then upgrade to 10.3.3 it'll need something else doing with it? if 10.3.3 has DVR-107 support maybe I should upgrade first, problem is the 10.3 I have is on a DVD!!
Finiksa said:I think the drive should work fine as a CD/DVD reader without being patched first (patch burn), it just won't burn with Apple apps in 10.2.8 but will with Toast etc.
So if you install the drive you shouldn't have any problems reading the 10.3 installer disk. If you find you can't burn after upgrading to 10.3.3 you probably have a very early firmware that needs upgrading.
Finiksa said:I think the drive should work fine as a CD/DVD reader without being patched first (patch burn), it just won't burn with Apple apps in 10.2.8 but will with Toast etc.
So if you install the drive you shouldn't have any problems reading the 10.3 installer disk. If you find you can't burn after upgrading to 10.3.3 you probably have a very early firmware that needs upgrading.
ump3 said:PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D
Apple Supported/Shipped