Fantom External DVD Burner Problem

[shaboink]

I just hooked an external firewire Fantom Drive Premier FW 16x Dual Layer DVD +/- RW up to my G4 running OS X Panther 10.3.9, 1g memory. It came with 2 CD's, ToastLite & Samsung. Neither seem to contain a driver for my MAC.

The system doesn't recognize the drive. The instructions are virtually useless. I know I must be missing something. Confession time: This is my first MAC I am a pc user for years and am trying to change my ways. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[superbovine]

I just hooked an external firewire Fantom Drive Premier FW 16x Dual Layer DVD +/- RW up to my G4 running OS X Panther 10.3.9, 1g memory. It came with 2 CD's, ToastLite & Samsung. Neither seem to contain a driver for my MAC.

The system doesn't recognize the drive. The instructions are virtually useless. I know I must be missing something. Confession time: This is my first MAC I am a pc user for years and am trying to change my ways. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

usually with external drives it comes with the drives on a cd-rom or you goto the manufactorers website and get the drives.

 

[shaboink]

The included disk which is a Samsung DVD +- R/RW CD. Contains the following:

Autorun.inf (I basically get: "No application associated with this file"

TS-H552B.exe (windows)
Dos_Driver - file
Manual - file (nothing usefull here)
Nero Burn - file (windows)
Nero Express - file (windows)
Intervideo - file (windows)
InCD4 - file (windows)
Common Files - file (nothing seems to be useful here)
directx - file (windows)

Is there anyplace I might be able to pick up the drivers for this thing?

I have placed a call but it's been over 2 days and no reply so far. Just got to love voice mail tech support.

Thanks.

 

[whispering]

Fantom External DVD Burner Problem

This afternoon i got an external dvd burner which is connected to my emac via a usb cable. I am not sure if it works right out of the box, because right away I installed software which I found on the LaCie homepage. I was able to use this sofware because i found out that LaCie is using Nec dvd burners to build its products. In your case that's probably not an option.
But i had problems using the apple application Idvd.
After some research on the net i found the following webpage.
http://www.patchburn.de/
On this webpage you can download a patch program that adds support for dvd burners.
It allows many, otherwise unsupported burners to be used directly with Mac-OS X, iTunes and DiscBurne

Hopefully this might work for you too.
In my case, even Idvd seems to work fine.

 

[Dreadnought]

Apple doesn't support a lot of DVD burners. Even if you do get them to work in the Finder and have them recognized by your system, it's a different story to get them to work with Apple programs. There have been many threads about it. Before you buy a dvd burner, always check with Apples support pages!

 

[CanadaRAM]

I had terrible service from Fantom tech support, send the drive back for a refund. My condolences.