December 20, 2004

Curious bore OK, I'm a dimwit. I've gotten hold of a G3 PowerBook running 10.3 (with absolutlely bags of RAM) and plugged it into a LiteOn CD-509-711 burner. I can import CDs into iTunes through the LiteOn with no trouble, but when I ask iTunes burn me a playlist, it tells me that it can't find a burner or burning software. What the snit am I missing here? Thanks in advance, o alps of computerabilityness. I await your golden weesdom!
posted by Wolof 20 years ago
  • Wolof, As far as I know no SCSI CD-burner works with Mac OS X. I was never able to get my scsi burner to work on my g3 desktop once I loaded os x (I could get it to work by booting into 9.1 however) I don't think you'll be able to do this in os x..
  • You need patchburnIII. Normally, with os X, within iTunes, IDVD etc. you can only burn on apple burners. But if you use patchburn, other brands of writers will also be supported. Freeware. Google is your friend.
  • Patchburn.
  • Huron -- it's a FW drive, not a SCSI, but many thanks. kilgates -- I installed pb3, which tells me that the drive is supported, so nothing to patch. So why no work?
  • Wolof, another option is a modified Lite-On device plug-in for iTunes, like the one downloadable here. Basically, someone has taken a device plug-in for a drive that is similar to yours (say, another Lite-On with similar parameters, ie: firewire interface, comparable supported burn speeds), and changes the string present in the plug-in so that it matches the response your burner gives when iTunes polls the connected hardware. Did not find a plug-in specific to your CD-509-711, but if you're handy with Resourcer you should be able to peek in one of the ones available at the above link, and modify it so that your drive is on the approved whitelist. More Q's and A's about your brand of drive and similar solutions here. Hope that helps! Usual disclaimers apply. :)
  • Wolof, your computer is broken. I suggest you sell it to me at a huge discount.
  • Jeff's Patchburn suggestion will work well. Do it quick, before the beta expires!
  • Works now. Thanks, all!