DVD Burner not working... Please help.

[pjr787]

Hi everyone!

I am new to this.

I just spent hours creating a DVD on iDVD. I never burnt a DVD before, but in my settings it DOES say "When inserting a blank DVD open: iDVD" (it's an option)...

When I insert the DVD, nothing happens, and the BURN option (button) is greyed out in iDVD. I have a Mac OS 10.4.11...


MORE ABOUT MY MAC: (Do i even have a dvd burner?)
MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8123:

Firmware Revision: CA14
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw
Media: No


If anyone can help me, thank you so much....

 

[kahlil88]

MORE ABOUT MY MAC: (Do i even have a dvd burner?)
MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8123:

Firmware Revision: CA14
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw
Media: No

The model name says CD-RW, so it's just a CD-burner. If it was a DVD-burner, it would say DVD-R(W) and list DVD formats below.

 

[dtravis7]

What model Mac do you have there?

That for sure is a Combo drive which READS DVD's and both Reads and Writes CD's. No DVD burner though, just DVD Reader.

 

[kahlil88]

For $99 you can get an MCE 8X DVD±R/RW dual-layer "SuperDrive" for PowerBook G4.