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In a G4 Digital Audio or do I need an Apple approved model?
In a G4 Digital Audio or do I need an Apple approved model?
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That ought to tell you. Just punch in the drive and the model of your Mac.
From memory Pioneer and Sony drives are pretty well supported as Apple use a lot of them in their machines from the factory. I doubt Apple even bother having their own firmware on the drives these days. I've used a couple of non-Apple drives okay in a B&W (both LGs) but that's about the limits of my personal experience.
EDIT: There are no reports for the DVR-115D in that database, but plenty for the 112D. I'd probably guess it will work, but I can't say for sure.
That ought to tell you. Just punch in the drive and the model of your Mac.
From memory Pioneer and Sony drives are pretty well supported as Apple use a lot of them in their machines from the factory. I doubt Apple even bother having their own firmware on the drives these days. I've used a couple of non-Apple drives okay in a B&W (both LGs) but that's about the limits of my personal experience.
EDIT: There are no reports for the DVR-115D in that database, but plenty for the 112D. I'd probably guess it will work, but I can't say for sure.
really it would depend on what OS you are running, i know that in tiger 10.4.3 (or 10.4.2) OS X gained support for the DVR-110/110D (the D version is the cheaper one of the 2). i know that my friend bought a DVR-112D for his Mac and he runs 10.4.10 and its supported (cant tell you when OS X gained support for it). my DVR-110D is OS 9 and OS X bootable, my friends DVR-112D is fully OS 9 and OS X bootable.
the only issue was that in a Beige G3 the DVR-110D had issues booting OS X, but the same drive in a newer machine boots OS X without a hitch. and out of the box the DVR-110D and newer versions don't have burn support in OS 9 unless you mod the PioneerCDR Authoring extension. since you have a digital audio you wont have booting issues. the only issue you might have is lack of burn support in tiger (maybe, if the drive came out before the last update it might be supported, if it came after then it might not be supported).
if its not supported to burn with there is always patchburn.
Pioneer drives are real nice.
the only issue was that in a Beige G3 the DVR-110D had issues booting OS X, but the same drive in a newer machine boots OS X without a hitch. and out of the box the DVR-110D and newer versions don't have burn support in OS 9 unless you mod the PioneerCDR Authoring extension. since you have a digital audio you wont have booting issues. the only issue you might have is lack of burn support in tiger (maybe, if the drive came out before the last update it might be supported, if it came after then it might not be supported).
if its not supported to burn with there is always patchburn.
Pioneer drives are real nice.
you was the friend i was talking about, if you didn't guess/me has a 112D in his Digital Audio G4 and one in his sister's Gigabit Ethernet G4 as well.They have not given me or her any issues at all and are so quiet.
MacJunky what version of OS X gained support for the 112 model, i know it was 10.4.3 that gained support for the 110 models. i would not know what version of tiger if any supported the 115. i dont know when the 115 was made available.
you can always use patchburn. but it might not allow for full operation of the drives capability's. but normally one would wait for a OS update to add official driver support for the drive. i dont know what drives are officially supported in 10.4.11.
i know that my DVR-110D wasn't officially supported until 10.4.3 (where you didn't have to use patchburn). the only option if the OS dont support the 115 models is to use patchburn. or upgrade to leopard in hopes official support for this drive is there.
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