owc superdrive

Hello everyone,

I just installed an OWC mercury superdrive on my 1.25 pb. OSX recognized when i put cd's in but it will not burn on any programs, specifically iTunes and Toast. The directions say to get a patch at www.patchburn.de. i ran it, but nothing.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MPBG4SD8XDL/

Anyone encounter the same problems??

hmm, I know many brands aren't supported in itunes and other iapps, but patchburn usually fixes that, in patchburn, was your drive listed as a type that could be used with patchburn, like where you select the drive?

only 1 drive showed up and it was the mat****a DVD-RAM UJ-8455

the drive should already work with toast, have you checked the system profiler to see if its shown as a dvd rom drive and not a plain cd? also, if you installed it yourself, are you sure you did it all correctly? not to question your abilities.

Yeah i believe i installed it correctly. i had to swap my old top-of-the-superdrive with the new one because something was glued on to it. I'm guessing it is right because osx recognizes cd's and dvd's i put in it.

i've uploaded a ss of my system profiler.

curious if i have to reset my pram or something.

thats odd. have you tried burning in other apps than toast and itunes? like in the finder?

yea...same thing. something about unrecognized or incompatible format. owc told me to try some different media. if that dont work....rma

heh

well, i tried it with a sony cd-rw and sony dvd-r and it worked. so i guess if you buy the OWC Mercury superdrive upgrade for your powerbook. You're going to have to buy name brand media.

how inconvenient is that?