Pioneer upgrade issue...

[dex22]

I just replaced my Pioneer DVR-104 with a new Pioneer DVR-111D. My old drive works great but, after a firmware upgrade a couple of years ago, it was limited to 1X for DVD burning.

The new drive works fine, and burns and reads everything I want, but it still shows up in Toast as limited to 1X in the burn window drop down menu.

Did I miss something?

 

[Sped]

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You should try Patch Burn. Its allows your to modify how the Mac sees the drive's properties.

 

[dex22]

OS X sees the drive correctly, as a 16x drive with dual layer support. I tried patchburn but it didn't make any difference.

I went and bought some new 16x DVD-R blanks, and now Toast happily burns at the claimed 16x - although the seconds count down veeery slooowly, so the former 45 minute burn is now a 4 minute burn that actually takes 8 minutes.

I'm going to experiment some more, and see if I can find anything else out about this...

I'd welcome any other ideas/experiments/suggestions from people.

 

[hondak24]

Burning at 8X takes about 8 mintues.
Does your Pioneer 111D show up as Superdrive?

 

[dex22]

It seems to claim it's burning at 16x but actually burns at 8x, with the Toast counter showing the time for a 16x burn, but each second tick taking 2 seconds to happen.

OS X (10.4.8) and Toast report the drive as "Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-111D" and the system profiler reports:

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D:

Firmware Revision: 1.23
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)
Profile Path: None
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No

 

[hondak24]

I think the problem is with the older IDE hardware, which would only allow transfer rate capable of 8X burn.

 

[dex22]

The onboard ATA bus is ATA-100, and it does the same thing plugged into my ATA-133 RAID card. ATA-100 can easy support 60MB/sec - how much bandwidth does a 16x burner use?

Meanwhile, I'm happily using the burner as an 8x burner

 

[LeeTom]

Have you tried using Disk Utility to burn a disk? That way you can see if it's a Toast-specific problem.

 

[hondak24]

The onboard ATA bus is ATA-100, and it does the same thing plugged into my ATA-133 RAID card. ATA-100 can easy support 60MB/sec - how much bandwidth does a 16x burner use?

Meanwhile, I'm happily using the burner as an 8x burner

I assumed you have older IDE hardware because of the age of Pioneer 104. Your bandwidth should support 16X speed burning, provided your harddrive is fast enough too.