Tiger tiger burning bright
Tiger gave me another pleasant surprise today. I’ve got an external Iomega SuperDrive CD/DVD-RW at work, but due to a slight glitch in communication with the person who bought it for me, I ended up with a USB2 unit rather than a Firewire one. Under Panther, the drive wasn’t recognised by the system, so I couldn’t use iDVD or the Finder to burn discs. There were ways around it, so I didn’t return the drive, but it was irritating.
Today, I had to burn some footage to a DVD and switched the burner on. To my surprise, Tiger fully supports the drive now, so I could use iDVD to burn the disc without any problems. It’s great to see more hardware being supported by Mac OS X.
[Apologies are due to Mr. W. Blake for abusing his poem in pursuit of a Sun-style punning headline. Sorry, William.]
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They stole your headline
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V: Hehe 
It's pretty obvious though. I bet loads of people used it.
by bsag @ 05/06/2005 3:06 pm • Permalink •
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Hi, I have the same Iomega superdrive and am trying to use it in an external enclosure that is connected to my PowerBook G4 via a USB2 cable. Are you sure Tiger supports this thing? Because I was hoping to hold off on upgrading a little longer. I know this is a stupid question, I just want to make sure that Tiger supports this drive before I go and install Tiger only to discover it doesn't. (I don't care for the new search on Tiger.)
Thanks for anything you can tell me. Sorry to bug you!
Hey, William Blake was just the "question" on Jeopardy, the answer: "This poet wrote the famous poem that begins with the line Tiger Tiger burning bright."
Weird coincidence...
by ThePete @ 17/07/2005 1:07 am • Permalink •
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ThePete: Sorry to take so long to reply---I kept forgetting to double check the model while I was at work. Anyway, It's an iomega, DualDVD (marked 'Super DVD' on the case itself) 8x USB 2.0 drive. System Profiler reports it as IOMEGA DVDRW8440E2D-B with firmware revision UOS1. You mention an external enclosure, so perhaps you have another iomega internal drive in an external case. If so, it might not be the same firmware, and I'm really sorry to have got your hopes up!
by bsag @ 19/07/2005 11:07 am • Permalink •
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No, no! That's awesome info! Thanks! It sounds like your drive is identical to mine. As it happened, I was inspired by your entry and decided to throw caution to the wind and install Tiger. Lo' and behold the damn thing worked and it supports my Iomega drive. Can read and write to just about any disc now (not Dual Layer, of course). Now I remember why I switched from PCs to Macs. Macs work! Thanks again for checking and no worries on the delay. I'll blog the information about your drive and mine so combined, we can hopefully help anyone else out there with the same or similar Iomega drive.
Now if I could only find an app that will extract VRO files from a DVD-RAM disc... ah well...
Thanks again and take care!
by ThePete @ 19/07/2005 1:07 pm • Permalink •
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ThePete: No problem
Yep, They Just Work. Most of the time...
by bsag @ 19/07/2005 7:08 pm • Permalink •
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