Can't burn CDs

[danielharker]

Howdy y'all.

 

Under my system profiler - disc burning, it says:

 

TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552L:

 

Firmware Revision: 0614

Interconnect: ATAPI

Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)

Profile Path: None

Cache: 2048 KB

Reads DVD: Yes

CD-Write: -R, -RW

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

Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes

Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes

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

Media: No

 

 

What does that even mean? Burnsupport: Yes (unsupported) <-- If it's supported with a yes, why are there brackets that say no?

 

I'm using the ATI IXP controller. Has anyone else had problems with their CD burners? I've searched the forums, and hit IRC, and no one seems to have the same problem as me.

 

When I go into itunes, it says:

 

The attempt to burn a disk failed. The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.

 

So... I know that it works in windows. What am I missing in osx?

 

Thanks so much,

 

Cheers,

 

Danny H

[wow]

Not sure or it helps, but this is what i get.

 

_NEC DVD_RW ND-3520AW:

 

Firmware Revision: 3.07

Interconnect: ATAPI

Burn Support: Yes (Vendor Supported)

Profile Path: VendorSupport.drprofile

Cache: 2048 KB

Reads DVD: Yes

CD-Write: -R, -RW

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

Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes

Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes

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

Media:

Media Type: CD-ROM

Blank: No

Erasable: No

Overwritable: No

Appendable: No

[consolation]

AFAIK the levels of burn support are:

 

No ->No burn support (duh...)

Yes (Unsupported) ->drive reports burn ability

Yes (Vendor Supported) ->drive reports burn ability, mac os recognizes device ID

Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported) ->for drives such as Pioneer (104 to 111) that are identical to the drives shipped by apple, and have their profile registered in mac os.

 

iApps are notoriously finicky about using drives other than (Apple Shipped/Supported), use Toast instead or install Patchburn to add the drive's profile to os.

 

This is AP for a fully supported drive:

 

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D:

 

Firmware Revision: 1.23

Interconnect: ATAPI

Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)

Cache: 2000 KB

Reads DVD: Yes

CD-Write: -R, -RW

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

Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes

Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes

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

Media: No

Edited January 6, 2007 by consolation

[Guest newbrocca]

Hi

 

It does not support because the DVD is not an Apple DVD ,use a 3rd part burner like "Burn" from opensourcemac.org

[Prawker]

I got the same problem, and almost the same exact drive, i have a TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H652L, i tried patchburn but to no avail.

[frenchie]

Danial I have the exact same DVD burner, however I am able to burn items to a CD/DVD.

 

TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D:

 

Firmware Revision: SB00

Interconnect: ATAPI

Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)

Profile Path: None

Cache: 2048 KB

Reads DVD: Yes

CD-Write: -R, -RW

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

Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes

Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes

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

Media:

Media Type: DVD-ROM

Blank: No

Erasable: No

Overwritable: No

Appendable: No

[wow]

Try the demo from roxio called toast. Thats burner software that could burn with a lot of (non) burners

[danielharker]

Hrm... So I installed patch burn, and it says that my CD drive is now Vendor Supported but not Apple Shipped... And it still won't work in itunes. Am I doomed to just use third party apps like toast? Or is there an option that I am not clicking on in patch burn?

 

P.S: Thank you so much for all of the great replys.

[Coffee_Bean]

I'm having similar problems with a TSSTCorp drive on 10.4.8. It used to work in 10.4.7, but now Toast just bounces and dies and all other burn apps fail to burn. I have used patchburn to get it Vendor Supported, but still no play.

 

Any ideas?