iBook 700Mhz Combo Drive

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Thursday 04 September 2003 23:42, Michael Kalus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has anybody here managed to get the CDWriter working? I can start the
> program, but it only sees the "DVD Portion" of the drive and does not
> identify it as a burner?
>
> Any way I can force it?
>
> Michael


I would say two things:

a) make sure that /etc/yaboot.conf contains the line append =  "hdb=ide-scsi" 
AFAIK most burners can only be used as SCSI drives.

b) my ibook is an 800Mhz with combo. The drive is pretty much crap. The only 
way I got it to burn was from MacOS X using the build in burning tool (and at 
1 speed!). From Linux (but also from Toast) any burn ended with a crash. I 
did not investigate this further as I got a desktop to do this work.

Thierry

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