Sony 500UXL on a G4 867mhz

[jamerican]

Has anyone tried to use a Sony dual format drive on a Mac? If so, does it work as a +RW drive? Does it work at all?

[shaftastic]

I've been told that the sony drive will NOT work on a macintosh, I think that it might if you use one of those firewire drive conversion kits. I have a TDK indi 440n burner which does all the same things as the sony one and it cost a few dollars less. I have it in a ADS technologies firewie drive kit and it works perfectly for me.

[dcsos]

I guess shaftistic didn't see that all the new G4 have this very drive inside already.
What he wants to know is will it work in his older tower.

Now he didn't say If he was planning to use it internally (replacing the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM supplied by aplle--but of couse putting your own drive into a MAC will VOID any WARANTEE
I agree you may have problems this way..but like saftistic observed..an external firwire connection will make it work with TOAST TITANIUM to make great DVD's

AS far as intergration with IDVD or DVD studio Pro..thw worst you may need a FIRMWARE upgrade (tho I don't think so)

By The WAY: The original SUPERDRIVES were Pioneer A03
The Laptop (POWERBOOK) DVD's are PANASONIC
and the new g4 has a DISABLED DRU-500 (it doesn't do "+" the way MAC hooks it up-another reason to go external)so it does "-" only

CAUTIONARY NOTE: you need to be in OSX or at least 9.2 in order for TOAST to burn to a firewire drive

[dcsos]

and yes the + works if you burn to the external drive..However, the DVD-ROM inside your tower will probably not recognize a + and you'll have to play it in a settop or newer MAC

[ps2daddy]

I've been told that the sony drive will NOT work on a macintosh, I think that it might if you use one of those firewire drive conversion kits. I have a TDK indi 440n burner which does all the same things as the sony one and it cost a few dollars less. I have it in a ADS technologies firewie drive kit and it works perfectly for me.

The sony 500UL and UX are the external drives and it works great the 500a and 500ax are the internal drive and they work great also

only problem I have is with recognizing "+ R" media in OS 10.2.5
It will burn them just fine but I can't mount or reburn my +r backups

See this post
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=159352

[dcsos]

Just a thought What happens if you use an evil product like SOFT WINDOWS to look at DVD R+ on a MAC OSX can it see thru the OS wall....?

But Thanks for the info update PS2Dad

[jamerican]

Thanks for all the replies. The Sony drive is the external Firewire model which I currently have hooked up to a Compaq XP box and which I am planning to use on my G4 867. I will be using this with a Toshiba FW DVD-ROM drive which reads anything I throw at it (so far) and DVD2OneX to back up my DVD collection from which I have found that some titles mysteriously disappear, compliments of my large family.
Agaon, thanks for all the replies.

[ps2daddy]

Just a thought What happens if you use an evil product like SOFT WINDOWS to look at DVD R+ on a MAC OSX can it see thru the OS wall....?

But Thanks for the info update PS2Dad

When I tried that it wouldnt acknowledge the dvd+r either
I have VPC 6 and I couldnt get it to work under emulation either
(also VPC 6 wont let you use your dvd burner to make dvd-r disks if the drive is internal)

(external might work but I doubt it)

[Falcon500]

I have VPC 6 and I couldnt get it to work under emulation either
(also VPC 6 wont let you use your dvd burner to make dvd-r disks if the drive is internal)

(external might work but I doubt it)

Firewire devices aren't recognised through VPC. USB is though but I think there was some problem with burning using USB and the VPC 6. It use to work under VPC 5 using Nero...You wouldn't be able to use it to burn DVD's though as the max you can really get out of a USB burner is 4x with a CD using the USB port. I think 1x burning with a DVD is faster than this.

[ps2daddy]

I have VPC 6 and I couldnt get it to work under emulation either
(also VPC 6 wont let you use your dvd burner to make dvd-r disks if the drive is internal)

(external might work but I doubt it)

Firewire devices aren't recognised through VPC. USB is though but I think there was some problem with burning using USB and the VPC 6. It use to work under VPC 5 using Nero...You wouldn't be able to use it to burn DVD's though as the max you can really get out of a USB burner is 4x with a CD using the USB port. I think 1x burning with a DVD is faster than this.

Yes you are right 1x DVD is about 8X cd speed it wont do it