Dvd Burner not working

[Mycatisbigfoot]

Hey guys, A while back I got a dvd burner for my pm g4 400 MH, I was running 10.4.7 and I could burn disks, but know I upgraded for my usb 2.0 card to work it wont burn, it says the disk is the wrong kind .ect. I have never had a problem like this I use disk utilty to burn Game cube Iso disks,

thanks guys

 

[Paralel]

I don't think anyone here is going to help you burn Gamecube ISOs to DVD since what are you doing is most likely rather illegal and I doubt they want Teh Party Van showing up on this forum.

 

[Osgeld]

Ignoring your blatant piracy reference what does adding a usb 2.0 card have to do with the dvd burner? is it a usb model drive? can you still plug it into the old port and what happens then?

 

[Mycatisbigfoot]

First of all I own the games I make backups, I buy games and do not open them, In canada it is legal if you own the game.

Second of all the Usb card is just for my usb stick, The reason I upgraded to 10.4.11 was becuase 10.4.7 would crash when I tryed useing the usb 2 card.

10.4.8 has the same burner problems as 10.4.11 also older os'xs dont work with the burner aswell,

Any help?

the burner is IDE as master and is the only one on the bus.

 

[LCGuy]

Even if its legal in your country, copying the games is illegal in most other countries, including the USA as far as I'm aware (where most of our members are based)...if you need help breaking the DRM or whatever GameCube games have, there's plenty of other sites out there for that. If you're having problems burning any sort of CD/DVD with the DVD burner at all, we can help you with that...just not with copying commercial software.

 

[Mycatisbigfoot]

it even with normal files, I can burn the disks in any othter os except mac and i talk to people on anohter fourm and they say macs can, its just a normal dvd, disk no drm ..ect so yea

but like i said even itunes fails at making misic dvd's

 

[LCGuy]

Have you got another drive you can try, or another machine to try that drive in?

 

[coius]

One thing I would recommend is seeing of the DVD drive manufacturer has released a firmware update for the drive. I would also source (borrow?) another dvd burner. You may be having a hardware failure, or even a laser failure which could result in that.

At one time, I have a failing DVD Burner that would read DVDs, burn DVDs (not successful all the time) and read/burn CD-RWs, and one of the first thing it did when failing was it would only burn to certain media types, then it would only burn to CDs and read DVDs, then it would only read CDs and not burn CDs, eventually, it got down to the point where it would somewhat very unreliably read or mount discs.

It worked fine on the mac and bad on a PC at first, but as it degraded, it eventually stopped working on the mac (once, I could only get it working on my PowerMac G5, but not on any PC I tried it out).

It came down to the laser was failing, and when I replaced the drive, all was well.

I would try either getting a different DVD burner, or borrow one from a friend. I am betting something in the drive is going bad. It's a common issue when drives go bad to act wonky like that.

Failing all else, reinstall, or just get a DVD/CD-RW or maybe an external USB 2.0 DVD burner. Or a case and put the DVD burner in it.

As far as the USB thing, I am willing to bet it was a coincidence that the drive is dying at the same time as the USB card was used/OS was upgraded.

 

[Mycatisbigfoot]

it wokrs fine in my windows macheen. and this drive is only 6 mo old and I've only burned about 25 disks, so thats not the problem, I do not have a usb thing for ide is there a osx patch I am thinking or a way to get that one driver from 104.7 to stick ?