Problems burning non-apple DVDR media with Toast and a Superdrive on a G4.
Early shipping versions of the Apple SuperDrive DVD/CD recorder have an issue writing at 2x speed to Mitsui and Maxell DVD-R media. Even though the drive reports it is capable at writing with 2x speeds to these discs, the resulting discs have problems being read in various DVD-ROM drives and
consumer DVD players.
Answer
The workaround is to manually override the 2x speed in Toast’s Write Now dialog and burn at 1x speed. The only DVD-R media guaranteed by Apple to support 2x burn speeds is
Apple’s own. See http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n58770, which
states that 2x speeds are “Confirmed with Apple media only.”
Later shipments of the Apple SuperDrive may not have this issue. All shipping Pioneer DVR-A03 drives with firmware 1.44 or later do not have this issue.
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