Re: Panther cd-r burning

At 7:41 -0700 2004-05-05, Gary Hsueh wrote:
>DVD burners can also burn CDs, so barring a hardware problem, your
>setup should do fine.
>
>When you first insert a blank disk, do you get a message asking if
>you want to initialize the disk? If not, look under System
>Preferences...CDs & DVDs, and make sure that the action you desire
>is selected under "When you insert a blank CD". Either "Open
>Finder" or "Ask what to do" will work for your case.

   An Apple Knowledge Base article also discusses some ways to
troubleshoot problems burning CDs. Although this article is focused
on burning audio CDs in iTunes, some of the suggestions it offers
appear to be general:

   http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61102

   One other issue is whether the optical drive is supported by Mac OS
X for burning CDs on CD-R and CD-RW media. If this is truly an
Apple-branded SuperDrive - so far consisting of a small set of drive
models manufactured by vendors such as Pioneer and Sony - that
shouldn't be a concern, but certain third-party drives might not be
directly supported by the OS for burning in the Finder, iTunes, et al.

   To complicate things further, drive compatibility for burning has
been reported to vary by Mac OS X version. To name one specific
instance, the Mac OS X 10.3.3 update reportedly added native burn
support for the first time for Pioneer's DVR-107D drive.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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Received on Wed May 5 09:35:22 2004