gonna put together a hackintosh ( a 2nd ) and i'm gonna go with a 945 chipset.....i've got all my parts eyed up 'cept for the dvd burner... the wiki doesn't seem to be updated..can anyone recommend a 100% compatible dvd burner.... my gut says pioneer cuz i think they are in regular macs, but i'd like to be sure .... thanks!

If you're talking IDE pretty much everything should work.

I've used LG, Sony, Optiarc, LiteOn, Pioneer all with no problems.

thank you!

While pretty much any brand will work if you use PatchBurn, the BEST ones to get are some of the Pioneer DVR-111D series (or earlier models in the series), as they are exactly the same drives as are used in MacPros as Superdrives, and are therefore natively supported without any patches.

Hi BlueDragon:

I'm using a Benq DW1650 on my OSx86 Machine and I've never been able to burn DVD's under Mac OS X. I'm running Myzar 10.4.6 and PatchBurn software. I can burn CD-ROM's and read DVD's fine on Mac OS X.

Of course, I can read and write DVD's fine with Windows XP SP2 on the same machine.

Any suggestions?

--danyel

I don't know what might be wrong there, as I used to have the same drive in an external case with my Mac mini, and it worked perfectly after using PatchBurn.

Hi BlueDragon:

Was there any special settings you had to use in PatchBurn for the Benq Drive?

--danyel

I have a benq dw1650... seems to work fine and I've never even heard of this PatchBurn. I haven't tested it extensively, but I just burnt a dual layer dvd yesterday (xbox 360 game using iburn360).

that sounds encouraging.... gonna go with pioneer 112d... hope it works

Hi im using a Freecom Dvd+/-RW20J8 seems to work ok cheap too

I have a pioneer and my about this mac stuff shows that it is apple shipped and supported.

just my 2 cents.

JR

I have a pioneer SATA, and it intermittently vanishes from my profile and wont recognize any discs....

I have a Pioneer DVR-215DBK and it won't work with Finder/Disk utility, Iburn360 and osx360. It seems to write some bytes but then it throws an error. The drive works perfectly under linux. Any ideas?