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Hi All,

 

Forgive my newbieness if I have posted this in the wrong place, but I figured this is probably the best place for this post.

 

I have installed 10.5.4 retail on my box using DFE + EFI Method. Everything is working great, but my DVD player will not burn It reads fine, just no burn. In system profiler it reads:

 

HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22LS30:

 

Firmware Revision: 1.01

Interconnect: ATAPI

Burn Support: Yes (Generic Drive Support)

Profile Path: None

Cache: 2048 KB

Reads DVD: Yes

CD-Write: -R, -RW

DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW

Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

Media:

Type: DVD+R

ID: CMC MAG M01

Blank: Yes

Erasable: No

Overwritable: Yes

Appendable: Yes

Write Speeds: 4x, 8x, 12x, 16x

 

 

But in Disk Utility the information says something different:

 

Name : HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22LS30

Type : Optical Device

 

Disk Identifier : HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22LS30

Connection Bus : ATAPI

Connection Type : Internal

Burn Support : Unsupported

Writes CD : Yes

Writes DVD : Yes

Media is present : No

Capabilities : Click for more information

Tray is open : Yes

 

In any case, when I try to put in a blank DVD + R into the drive, it reads it as 0kb free space, and if I try to burn and iso to it, diskutility says "not enough free space" or something like that.

 

It shows as /dev/disk3 in terminal when I have nonblank media in the drive.

 

I have googled far and wide and searched this site like crazy, but the only information I found was wrt patchburn for 10.4.x Everyone seems to think this doesn't happen anymore in 10.5.x

 

Please oh wise sages of insanelymac, educate me.

 

Cheers,

 

peakz

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So the story gets more interesting...I have now installed Toast 9 Titanium and it can burn no problems. I'm not super concerned that DiskUtility wont recognize it now that I can burn with something else, but I'd still like to understand whats going on.

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I too had the same issue with that particular LG SATA drive, have temporarily installed a SONY IDE drive, will get a Samsung or Pioneer SATA soon and that should fix the problem...

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I have the same device and I can burn DVDs with Finder and Toast 9 without any problems.

 

Are you guys using the drive in SATA mode or did you set your BIOS to IDE emulation? This can really make a difference!

 

Also: make sure you are using AHCI & native mode for SATA devices!

 

 

- mcsmart

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I had the same trouble with a GH22NS30. Toast would burn dvd and CD, Finder would burn CD but not DVD. I tried a firmware update, different motherboards and 3 different OSXs, made no difference. I ended up in trading them (I bought 3 of them ;)) in for NS10 model. Odd problem.

 

Khan

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