[sdiy] Need Mac/DVD help

[Simon Richardson]

Hi, I'm not an expert on DVD burning, although I know Macs pretty well.

On 6 Sep 2004, at 19:30, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> On *either* FW or USB, the OS only 'partially sees' these drives. 
> There is no
> icon on the desktop (it does see the ext. HD in the FW chain). When 
> you look at
> the System Info, the drive is "there" BUT.....under the 'Disc Burning' 
> item it
> has 'Not Supported'!!!

Strictly speaking, the system cannot mount a drive. It mounts 'volumes' 
which are usually discs. No disc, no icon. When you eject a volume, the 
disc comes out, not (hopefully) the drive!

> So, DVD Studio Pro doesn't 'see' it at all, even though if you put a 
> DVD in
> there is *plays fine*. If you use Toast, it 'sees' it fine (I can burn 
> from
> Toast but need DVD Studio for the menus). iDVD does NOT see it, either.

If DVD Studio Pro can save a disc image (and I think it can), can you 
then burn the image using Toast?

> Is this a Panther thing? What am I doing wrong? Why doesn't the OS at 
> least
> 'mount' the drive on the Desktop? It mounts a FLASH keydrive, a USB 
> mouse, a USB
> floppy and the FireWire HD.

As above - these are volumes not drives (well, except the mouse, but 
that doesn't get 'mounted' at all).

Hope this isn't too off-topic.

Simon

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Simon Richardson