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CD/DVD Burning under OSX

  • 14-05-2003 7:06pm
    #1
    rez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭


    Hey,

    My job recently got a new eMac for us to look at if we need to(I do tech support so in case someone rings us using a mac). Anyway I pretty much ignored it for a while cos I'm not much of a mac user but then someone said to me that it had a DVD burner inside it....

    Sure enough it has a "SuperDrive" in it which works like a charm. I also made the pleasent discovery that Mac OSX really was a flavour of BSD and I was able to go to a command prompt and do pretty much anything I'd be used to under unix, very nice :)

    Anyway while the CD's that OSX's Finder makes are ISO standard ones that I can read in my PC it seems to make HFS+ file system DVD's (I tried to burn a few data DVD's). Anyway I want to be able to burn standard ISO-Compliant data DVD-R's in the SuperDrive so can anyone reccomend a good piece of software that can do this? I've seen 2 mentioned online so far Adaptec's 'Toasti' and something called DragonBurn. Anyone got any experience of these?

    Or is there a way I can burn a standard DVD-R in the SuperDrive without additional software which will play ok in a Windows DVD-ROM drive?

    would appreciate any advice,

    Catahal.


Comments

  • #2
    rez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭rez


    Anyone know anywhere else online I might ask this question?

    Or some mac place that I can ring might have an idea?

    Really need to sort this out not prepared to accept that it is not possible, but don't want to fork out €50 for software if it's not gonna work,

    thanks,

    =rez=


  • #3
    flywheel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭flywheel


    you could try the boards on http://www.clubmac.ie ?

    BrianG


  • #4
    remoteboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭remoteboy


    the software that comes with osX is fine for quick and dirty burning, but doesn't even support multisession CDs :rolleyes:

    toast titanium is a good piece of kit - never had a minute's trouble with it. Have been burning DVD-Rs with Toast and they worked fine on a PC. Used Apple branded disks, which seem to be very reliable. However, found that PC drives didn't like DVD-RW disks.


  • #5
    Hecate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭Hecate


    Install the cdrtools package from fink or whatever, that should do the trick.


  • #6
    babypink
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭babypink


    toast really is the best piece of kit for these kinds of things, it can burn most formats and is as reliable as anything


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