CD Burner Not Found

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CodeJunkie

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I replaced the DVD Drive in my PowerMac G4 with a drive I had in one of my PC's. It works much better than the previous, except that System Profiler lists it as not having burning capabilities. I know this drive can burn DVDs and CDs. Do I have to enable it somehow? Download drivers? All burning programs say that they find now suitable drive for burning.
 
dtravis7

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Sounds like the drive is not fully supported by OSX. Try downloading Patchburn. That should solve burning for you.

http://www.patchburn.de/

Be sure you download the correct version for the OSX you have installed.
 
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www.Patchburn.de

Download patchburn 3, run it and it should fix the issue.


EDIT: Nice one dtravis7!
 
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I think it's an I/O Magic drive, although it just says ATAPI under vendor. There aren't drivers listed for either of those.
 

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