SCSI DVD burner

[waynestewart]

Last night I picked up a Pioneer SCSI DVR-S201 DVD burner with firmware version 2.02. Hope to upgrade that when I can.

So far I’ve had it read commercial DVDs and DVR-R disks only on a Beige G3 running 10.2 which happened to have Toast 6 installed. It doesn’t see DVD+R disks or CDs. Toast 5 under OS9 sees the drive.

I can’t try burning a DVD right now as I don’t have any of the Authoring media.

Anyone have any experience with this drive?

 

[techknight]

Those were made back in the time when there was two entirely different formats, and they were NOT compatible with each other. +R and -R were different. 

 

[Macdrone]

Toast was about the only authoring software to make DVD burners work at all.  Disc burning n OS X was hit or miss on non apple drives, usually miss.  Don't forget they had DVD ram drives to really confuse the issue.

Usually you had to set up whatever you wanted to burn in toast then start the burn and it would ask for the disc to be inserted.  Its not like now you can use a disk thats inserted.  Imagine its like disc copy for floppies.  Set up the copy then "insert floppy".

Also if it does not finalize at the end of the burn correctly its a coaster, was very expensive learning curve when disks were like 10 dollars a piece.

 

[waynestewart]

I bought a SCSI CD burner in 94 or 95. Paid $1200 for the burner. Once I realized I couldn't do anything else while burning the CD things went well.

 

[Unknown_K]

Yea, my first cd burner was $1100 ($1200 and $100 rebate) HP 2x SCSI. Media was $10 or so back then. I was late to DVD burning, everything was IDE by then.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Toast rocked! I bought my first burner when the Philips OMNIwriter CD-RW finally hit the $400 mark in 1997. That's pretty much the magic number. Got my first flat bed scanner when a MicroTek hit that price point. More recently, got a 32" 720p HDTV when I first saw one on sale for $399 a little over six years ago. Up until then I was watching VHS movies on a 21" CRT off a 6xxx Road Apple/Tuner setup.

 

[techknight]

I didnt get a CD burner until they were about $200, and that was around 1998 or so. it was a 2X yamaha if I remember correctly. IDE. Fortunately/Unfortunately depending how you look at it, fueled my music downloading and burning. I remember being the one in school downloading and burning music for the other classmates as I was pretty much the only one with a burner at the time.