Just a wild stab in the dark, but did you make sure the jumpers on the 108 were set to "Slave"? or set the jumpers on both optical drives to "Cable Select"?Wano said:Anyone know what to do?
paxtonandrew said:What a bugger it is too wide for the MDD slots. The Mac compatibility issue is not to be taken literally. I have a Sony, Windows Xp only DVD burner in my Quicksilver, and it works perfectly. There is no issue with compatibility, it is all just hype. You got it to open in your MDD right? It works with Macintosh!
Wano said:Thanks guys! I think I will be sending it back and getting a external one instead.
Don't send it back, osprey76 is right you just need to remove the dust bezel from the drive. All modern Apple systems with tray load drives (eMac, iMac G4, Power Mac) don't use them, it's very simple to unclip from the drive tray. Look at the factory installed drive in your MDD it won't have one.Wano said:Thanks guys! I think I will be sending it back and getting a external one instead.
1. Very few CD-burners/DVD burners are supported by the Apple drivers. If you use the Pioneers they usually are as Apple used them themselves. You can however get most drives to work using Patchburn (google for it). It's free. Apparently PAtchburn 3 also gets the drives to work with iDVD. If you get an external drive IT WILL NOT WORK WITH iDVD.Wano said:Ok, so I got it to eject! However, I found this on dealmac.com and 1. it is not mac supported, 2. it's too wide to eject through the mdd slots. so, back to newegg it goes. thanks for the help though!
Look at the label on the drives it should have a picture showing the jumpers pins and have them labeled, it's usually two rows of three pins (though there maybe a couple of pins that do nothing). Your options will be Master, Slave and Cable Select, then all you have to do is place the plastic jumper cap so that it connects the two corresponding pins. So for Master place the jumper cap across the two pins indicated in red on the attached picture.Wano said:Just one more question. How do i install it along with my combo drive? I don't understand the jumper settings.
That's rather different. Toast uses it's own drivers and many drives that Apple does not support will work with toast. If you want to use your drive with finder and the iLife suite then either get a drive Apple supports (the most full featured being the Pioneer DVD-107 which is used in the PM G5 and the emac) OR use Patchburn which, as Wano has found out, will make nearly any drive work.freiheit said:I just bought a Pioneer 108 for my MDD G4 as well. To say it's not Mac supported is way off -- it is Mac supported.