Apple's Super drive question?

[tcrider]

I have an Emac 800 with an superdrive.

Apple system profiler gives the specs

Device Revision - D031
Product ID - DVD-RW GCA-4020B
Vendor ID - HL-DT-ST

My question is "Can this drive burn DVD-RW's" I have heard Apple has disabled some of the RW functions from the drives.

Thanks

[galactica]

The easiest way is to just try it
If its an RW drive it will burn to RW's

just pop a rw disk in and try the burn - then you will know if it does or does not

[phillip9]

There are lots of posts in th Apple help forums (apple.com) that deal with this question. Briefly, yes the Superdrives do support DVDRW. If, however, you are using iDVD with DVDRW discs, there is a trick that is needed to get the disk recognized. As I recall, you insert a DVDR disc when requested (prior to the burn). Then as encoding poceeds you eject the DVDR and replace it wih your DVDRW.

[MichaelLAX]

My question is "Can this drive burn DVD-RW's" I have heard Apple has disabled some of the RW functions from the drives.

I do not know which manufacturer made the SuperDrive in the eMac, but I suspect that they would use the same OEM as in the iMac, since space considerations are the same (as opposed to the Powermacs which require a much thinner drive).

Toast 5.2 supports burning DVD-RWs in my iMac G4. My Powerbook G4 "12" will not burn DVD-RWs (yet).