Purple Puppy Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Is there a driver for LG GSA-H22N DVD+RW? In System profiler it says that this dvd writer supports writing (unsupported). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Roxio Toast Or Burn Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/#findComment-343625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted April 10, 2007 Author Share Posted April 10, 2007 I tried burn but it said that my 4.7GB DVD does not have enough space for 4.4GB of stuff? :wink2: Huh? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/#findComment-343858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emig647 Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 That sounds about right... try deleting another 100 megs... you should be able to fit just about 4.3gigs on a 4.7gig disk. Remember there needs to be room for the sector table to store sector information. This is usually about 400-500 megs on 4.7 gigs. This is why when you format a 120 gig harddrive you only get 111 gigs. Lame Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/#findComment-343890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu.Walker Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 That sounds about right... try deleting another 100 megs... you should be able to fit just about 4.3gigs on a 4.7gig disk. Remember there needs to be room for the sector table to store sector information. This is usually about 400-500 megs on 4.7 gigs. This is why when you format a 120 gig harddrive you only get 111 gigs. Lame On the harddisk thing, hard drive manufacturers consider 1MB=1000KB, not 1MB=1024KB I don't know if it's the same with DVDs, but yeah, 4.3GB is about the most you can stick in a regular single-layer DVD5 (see, they call it DVD5 when there's less, same with DVD9=8.5GB). The wonders of marketing. PS. There's this patchburn app that makes unsupported DVD-writers work in OS X. Might want to check it out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/#findComment-343956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandnaka Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 My burner said unsuport too! But I have burn alot of stuft already Using my breads Toaster in my hackentOS!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/#findComment-344153 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emig647 Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 That's good to hear Pandaka... My burner is on the way (a new LG, since they were out of pioneers)... and was scared it may not work. Does yours work in iTunes? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/#findComment-344162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandnaka Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 what you mean if it work in Itune? if you mean by playing CD in Itune it work, but to copy music I have never try it! So I can't say it work or not!!! But Toast 8 Titanium Burn fine! DVD and DL! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/#findComment-344489 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emig647 Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I meant burning in iTunes... you can burn playlists to cds. Wondering if that works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/#findComment-344503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 I think that 1MB = 1000KB, whilst 1MiB = 1024KiB; 1KB = 1000B; 1KiB = 1024B. Am I right? and is there a way to burn an ISO file onto the dvd directly? because I know that my ISO is compressed. If I mount the ISO and then copy all the files to harddisk, all the files add up to 8.2GB but the ISO itself is 4.33GB. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/#findComment-344528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emig647 Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 I know Toast will. I haven't used it but I bet disco will as well. Not sure of any freeware / shareware apps that do it :-/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/#findComment-344549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 Woohoo it works! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/#findComment-344576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyel Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 PS. There's this patchburn app that makes unsupported DVD-writers work in OS X. Might want to check it out. Hi Zulu: I tried PatchBurn but I'm still getting the same error. The error and my drive are listed below. Any ideas? --danyel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47978-dvd-writer-wont-write/#findComment-349782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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