Linked by Dan Welch on Thu 30th Dec 2004 08:50 UTC
This holiday season I was given some Christmas money, and I wanted to purchase a DVD burner for my G4 Apple Macintosh computer. When I purchased my computer, I was wise in buying a tower since they are upgradeable, right? WRONG!
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I bought an external dual firewire/usb SONY DRX-510UX DVD+-RW and it wouldn't work as a burner with OSX. I had to use Patchburn! And even after I set it up as a burner through the hack, it wouldn't write all kinds of disks (dvd plus and minus that is). I wrote to Apple's customer service and they couldn't give me a straight answer about these disks, because *supposedly* 10.3.5 was "fixing" these problems (it wasn't). iDVD doesn't work with it either, we just use it as a simple CD burner for now.
Anyways, I find it laughable that Firewire was born through the joint venture of SONY and Apple, and then you get a freaking Sony drive and you plug it in on a freaking Apple computer, and it doesn't work out of the box as it should.
Bleh. Even Linux works with that drive just fine, without extra drivers.