Rhapa Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Hello, Since my SL retail DVD is getting old and scratched (even with the caution I use to have) and risking to get unreadable I decided to make a copy of it. Now (after a little of fight 'cause the DVD was already unreadable) I have the .dmg file of the disk to burn it but when I was about to burn the DiskUtility cancel the operation saying that my drive doesn't support DVD-R DL recording. I was astonished since I gladly know my Drive does support DVD-R DL burning. To prove that I booted into Ubuntu (I don't have Windows installed, but Ubuntu does great) and tried to burn a .iso version of the .dmg file. With great surprise I found out an error while burning which indicated my Drive. Unhappy I went out to some research to gladly find that Brasero (the default burning app in Ubuntu) doesn't support HFS or HFS+ and then I wouldn't be able to burn an image with this fs. I tried with K3b burning app and it burned great. I burned another DL dvd burning and they also burned great but what mocks me is that OS X doesn't recognize the Drive support for DL DVD burning. Until now I haven't found anything reliable. Do any of you have any idea on how to fix this???? Thanks.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268166-dual-layer-dvd-burning/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Try Transmac or Ultraiso on Windows. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268166-dual-layer-dvd-burning/#findComment-1749655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapa Posted September 17, 2011 Author Share Posted September 17, 2011 Try Transmac or Ultraiso on Windows. I don't have a Windows installation, so I'm not able to install windows right now (actually I don't have the installation disc). Using K3b on Linux worked fine. What I'm trying to do is to make it work (burning dual layer dvds) under OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268166-dual-layer-dvd-burning/#findComment-1749717 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 I don't know what the issue is with your drive. Maybe its firmware is not reporting dual layer burning capability in an OS X friendly way. Try looking for a firmware update for it. I don't have any problems burning dual layer DVDs on OS X. I use Toast 11. Drive is a Lite-On LH-20A1L. You can use Disk Utility to restore the install DVD to a HDD partition. Then boot it with Chameleon and install from there. That's what I do, my Snow Leopard DVD has only been out of the retail box one time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268166-dual-layer-dvd-burning/#findComment-1749721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapa Posted September 18, 2011 Author Share Posted September 18, 2011 I can try updating my firmware (I'm a little careful about this since I messed my last DVD drive updating its firmware). Now just for the record: Today I tried to update my SL 10.6.3 to 10.6.8. I could boot only one time, and on this I checked Disk Utility and guess what, there it said my Drive has support for DVD -R+ DL. Well, maybe my system a little buggy. Thank you, I'll update the firmware and check if 10.6.3 can recognise the DL capacity. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268166-dual-layer-dvd-burning/#findComment-1749770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 If you feel that way about doing firmware updates then update OS X instead. At least you don't run the risk of breaking anything. Post your specs and installation method and let me know what happens when you try to boot into 10.6.8. If you couldn't boot second time it could be a simple kernel or kext cache issue. Can you still boot with -x ? Use Lion Cache Cleaner (google it) to clean all the system caches. Don't worry about the name, it works fine on Snow as well. In the main window, navigate to the last tab, select all the caches and let it do its thing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268166-dual-layer-dvd-burning/#findComment-1750330 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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