iBook 700Mhz Combo Drive

[Michael Kalus]

Thanks,

the drive actually works fine under MacOSX and I can do burn at 8x...

Well, I can't eject, but heck ;)

Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try.

Michael

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 05:07, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> 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