What is the definition of a superdrive?

[wdlemke]

Can one use the Pioneer 104, 105, 106 in any G3+ Mac and have it fully uasable? Or do you have to have some of them external to be able to use them?

Thanks in advance.

[galactica]

What is the definition of a superdrive?
A optical drive that can burn cd's and dvd's also reads cd's and dvd's

since it does everything, its called a superdrive!


Can one use the Pioneer 104, 105, 106 in any G3+ Mac and have it fully uasable?

Yes, you can.


Or do you have to have some of them external to be able to use them?
You can do that too. If its the same controller type, IDE etc internal will work. if not, you have to get an external enclosure, which converts the drive to somethign like firewire or USB.

[ps2daddy]

Mac and other companies just loves the term superdrive for some reason

A long time ago the floppy disk drive was called the mac Superdrive.

Then imatation made a 100mb Superdisk and you used a Superdrive to read this disk.

Now the dvd burners are called Superdrives
Galactica summed it all up pretty much

The only thing is that if you put it in an external case iDVD wont work (as far as I know, I hear that this might be an exception in the latest computers)

Also you need a G4 for certain type of processing using dvd studio pro but other than that I teill do everything any other computer will doo.


I think any drive than comes from krypton can be called a superdrive

[sterno]

A long time ago the floppy disk drive was called the mac Superdrive.

The Mac floppy drive was called the "superdrive" because it was their first model that could read 1.4MB high density floppies, 800k Apple-style double-density, and 720k PC-style double-density. So the new superdrive does the same kind of thing, just for optical media.

[lordsmurf]

For the first version, the 103 drive, the "super" stands for "super pain in the ass".

My friend's drive is stuck on inferior Apple firmware, which disallows him from using 4x discs at 2x speed. In fact, some 4x discs won't even be recognized. Yes, it's the "4x fix" 1.49 fw, but that is the same as the 1.90 official Pioneer one. The current one by Pioneer is 2.0. No matter what I do, I cannot hack the drive, and he is unable to use anything but a small selection of limited media. It always acted up on unbranded Ritek G3 discs. It only works on Apple media, some Sony and Maxell media, and some 1x Princo media.

And the DVD-RW function has never worked. The warranty had expired by the first time he tried to use a -RW.

If any of you have suggestions, let me know. I've given up.

So to me, "super" means "super crappy". And no, I'm not Mac-bashing. The computer's fine. It's just the OEM (Apple in this case) being lazy about providing proper updates for it's customers. Same for Compaq, but I was able to hack mine.