GingerPrince Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Hi, I've upgraded my hack to 4Gig RAM recently and ran into stability issues. After a bit of searching on here, people were recommending disabling the JMicron controller. Which seems to have stabilised things but unfortunately means my DVD writer is gone (IDE). So, I'm after recommendations for compatible SATA DVD Writers? Anybody recommend one? I've been looking at the Pioneer DVR-212 but read in a few places that people have had problems with them. Anybody try the Optiarc 7170? Lite-On? LG ? ASUS? cheers, Matt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoarthing Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Hi, I've upgraded my hack to 4Gig RAM recently and ran into stability issues. After a bit of searching on here, people were recommending disabling the JMicron controller. Which seems to have stabilised things but unfortunately means my DVD writer is gone (IDE). So, I'm after recommendations for compatible SATA DVD Writers? Anybody recommend one? I've been looking at the Pioneer DVR-212 but read in a few places that people have had problems with them. Anybody try the Optiarc 7170? Lite-On? LG ? ASUS? cheers, Matt . . personally would bin the iffy DDR2 & buy standard-SPD/spec JEDEC 1.8v PC6400 from a major brand. There is naff-all benefit to 'lower latency' on this platform compared to (say) s940 with its thorough-going low-latency design throughout. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-473287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerPrince Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 Geil isn't a major brand? what's iffy about it? there isn't anything wrong with the RAM (I've run memtest on it with no problems), it's a problem with the JMicron controller. other than that, thanks for your otherwise extremely helpful comment. sure, i'll throw away 4 gigs of RAM i've just bought to buy another 4 with a different name on it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-473378 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerPrince Posted October 19, 2007 Author Share Posted October 19, 2007 bump. nobody uses a SATA DVD drive they can recommend? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-474850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumford Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 bump. nobody uses a SATA DVD drive they can recommend? I use Samsung Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-474854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfcarbel Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 I am also looking for a SATA DVD drive that is compatible. I see these 2 choices. Anyone using these with success and with iDVD? mumford - Does your Samsung work with iDVD and other "burning" apps (i.e. Toast) without issues? SAMSUNG Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 2MB Cache SATA - OEM SH-S203B http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16827151153 Pioneer Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 10X DVD+R DL 2MB Cache SATA DVD Burner - OEM DVR-212DBK http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16827129009 I have read Macs use Pioneer, but these are internal IDE drives. So not sure Pioneer mean instant compatibility in apps like iDVD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-511187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanakorizo Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 samsung SH-S203 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-511240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfcarbel Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 samsung SH-S203 What apps are you using it successfully without issues (iDVD, Toast, etc)? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-511967 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfcarbel Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 I ended up buying the Samsung SH-S203B. I am hoping it has best compatibility with DVD burning apps in OSx86. Can anyone comment on their success with this drive or others? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-731171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 The one in my sig works fine and was cheap. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-731183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DayvG Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Sorry to hijack but I have the samsung SH-S203 drive and I can't get it to burn anything! All it will do is lightscribe my discs. I've tried updating the applenforceata kext and that didn't work. Does anyone have any advice, I'm kinda stuck. Thanks. My rig AMD athlon dual core 4200 Asus m2n4 sli MB 1GB Ram Nforce 4 chipset Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-755637 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemjello Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Same problem here, with AMD chipset. Ever find a way to burn with SH-S203B drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-1176334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuda10 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 What I can recomment is NOT to buy the LG GH22NS. I just bought one and I'm going to return it and change it for something other, becouse while it reads ok and I can also write using toast 10... It doesn't write from the finder or from disk utility. Simply says the inserted medium has not enough capacity, detected capacity is always 0. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-1188200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan_Man Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 canuda10 beat be to it. There have been reports of problems with some LGs. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=138231 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=166336 Though I was able to trade in the GH22NS30s for GH22xx10s and they work great. what a PITA. Khan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-1188290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Lite-On DVDRW LH-20A1L here, on ICH10-R. Works fine so far, I can burn stuff from Disk Utility and Toast 10. Truth be told I haven't burned any DVDs on it yet but several CD-RWs and all burns come out fine. I'll try to remember to come back and edit my post once I've burned a few DVDs. There's a problem when the hard disk sleep setting is activated in power management, if the drive is left inactive with this setting on, it will stop responding until the next reboot after it's been put to sleep. I haven't checked whether entering and exiting S3 sleep wakes it up, entering S3 sometimes crashes and reboots my hackintosh causing disk corruption so I don't like to try my luck with it too much. Anyway disable that setting and it works fine. I love that my trusty old Lite-On LTR-52246S P-ATA CDRW burner shows up as 'Apple Supported Device' in System Profiler. I wonder if there's a list somewhere of "Apple Supported" devices. Would be cool to find a list like that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66754-best-sata-dvd/#findComment-1188746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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