Pioneer dvr-104 firmware and a mac

[OmegaRedd1]

I just got my hands on a pioneer dvr-104 stock dvd-rw drive. And I threw it into my G4, all happy that I could burn dvds. Imagine my horror when the first disc I burned at 2x (an apple 2x dvd-r) finished, but was unreadable.

But, come to find out, there's a shitload of issues with that model that can't easily be fixed. The apple superdrive firmware update won't work on it and the firmware updater from Pioneer a.) only works in 9 and b.) when I used it in 9 on my machine, it said it couldn't find the drive and died.

I've read that you can throw the drive into a PC and update the firmware and then put it back in a mac. But, there's even more firmware issues with the PC updaters...different people get different results with different discs with different versions of the firmware, etc.

Does anyone have any sage-like advice on this? Or should I be happy with burning at 1x for the foreseeable future?

Thanks.

[Pretzel]

I have successfully updated

- but if the Apple A227 installers won't work for you - you will be limited to using OS9 installers

look here:
http://www.wormintheapple.gr/macdvd/download2.html

and if you have flashing questions, you 'may' get a knowlegeable response here:
http://forum.firmware-flash.com/viewforum.php?f=30&sid=ab7ac2d7508787e3e84bafda87bb2b11

hth