magicspin dvd burner

[ratdude747]

anyway, i have this magicspin dvd burner. it is in my dad's new computer i built.

i just tested it by burning yellowdog linux to a dvd+r. i put the disc in a mac g4 sawtooth, it will not reconize it. the g4 has a dvd drive.

it is a new batch of philip's dvd+r i bought today... my question is are magicspin drives worth a crap or is it pure junk?

[retiredcaps]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

Never heard of magicspin, but what software did you use to burn it? I use freeware imgburn.

With some DVD burners, you can use imgburn to set the booktype for better compatibility.

Also, try the newly burned dvd in another computer device.

anyway, i have this magicspin dvd burner. it is in my dad's new computer i built.

i just tested it by burning yellowdog linux to a dvd+r. i put the disc in a mac g4 sawtooth, it will not reconize it. the g4 has a dvd drive.

it is a new batch of philip's dvd+r i bought today... my question is are magicspin drives worth a crap or is it pure junk?

[ratdude747]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

infrarecorder, fos

[ratdude747]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

came back as corrupted on a similar old dvd drive, came back ok on the orginal bruner drive.

my guess is the mac's drive and my old drive are too old for dvd+r, maybe dvd-r would have been better?

[toastygoodness]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

DVD-R is always safer with older drives. when in doubt, go minus. besides, it all burns the same speed . . . slow.

[ratdude747]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

well, i did not plan on putting yellow dog on the mac anyway... i'd bet it would work on a mac g5 that will have os 10.5 compressed on it. i will not have the mac until next week at soonest, but if dl works, i bet +r will as well.

[stj]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

the original mac drives are known to be bs,
you probably need to set the booktype to dvd-rom.

and your burner is probably an OEM, so if we can find what it really is, you can put better firmware in it.
you may get lucky,
i salvaged an Asus burner from an old machine, turned out to be a Pioneer DVR111 !!!
that's one of the best there is!

has your "magicspin" got a model number?

[stj]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

99% chance it's a BTC drive.
model number would be handy, together with current firmware revision.

[ratdude747]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

it has two model #'s, one is idvd16dd, the other is dvdrw1016im. it says it is made by smartpro intetnational, ltd.

it came out of a custom build i got at a thrift store. it had a nice case... good sturdy foxconn.

[toastygoodness]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

mac drives are definitely finicky. sometimes the ISO even needs to be burnt on a mac (don't know why, never looked further into it) for another to read it.

[ratdude747]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

the burner is a btc, a btc drw1016im.

updated the firmware, working well.

[kaniki]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

i dont know about the majicspin is the same, or maybe renamed, but i do know of an IO Majic brand.. they are the same company, just rename as the Digital Research brand.. both are crap.. or at least used to be.. I bought some of their drives a few years back and none of them lasted.. got what seemed like a good deal on them.. when none lasted even 1 year on light use.. it was not quite as much of a good deal..

as for the readings.. did you make sure that the DVD was finalized?? A lot of DVD players will not read the disk if it is not finalized.. especially the older ones.. Ran into that a few times not thinking myself..

[brethin]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

Magicspin is IO Magic which most of the time are rebranded BenQ's or BTC's

[PCBONEZ]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

What he said.
- rebranded

[PCBONEZ]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

Now look up the specs on drives it didn't work in to see if they even handle that type media.

[ratdude747]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

it's moot now... the burner burnt a xubuntu cd fine today... that mac was not going to get yellowdog anyway, it was more of a test. what i was going to use a dvd+r for will likely not need one, what it is, will not be said unless the other party says it first.

[PCBONEZ]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

CD and DVD use completely different lasers.

[ratdude747]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

i know

[stj]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

and again, mac drives are known to be a problem,
it used to be common to replace them with pioneer or nec drives on sight.

the combo-drives are probably lite-on junk.

[Scenic]

Re: magicspin dvd burner

they tended to use Hitachi drives in the G4 days.. which were awfully slow and VERY picky about media..
(real Hitachi drives.. not Hitachi-LG a.k.a. HL-DT-ST .. a.k.a. what most ppl call LG these days..)

i just relpace them with LG DVD-ROMs or DVD burners.. not worth the trouble finding out what the dumb old worn out drive in there likes for a media type..