10.3: Add support for any third-party CD-R burner

Oct 29, '03 10:56:00AM

Contributed by: buserror

You can very easily add support for your own third party CD/DVD burner in Panther by creating a file in ~/Library -> DiscRecording -> DeviceProfiles/. With that file, System Profiler will display "Disc Burning: DRDeviceSupportLevelUnsupported" and Disc Copy will let you use your burner. Here is the SM348B.drprofile I made for my combo drive:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <array>
    <dict>
      <key>DRDevicePersonalities</key>
      <array>
        <dict>
          <key>DRDeviceProductName</key>
          <string>CDRW/DVD SM-348B</string>
          <key>DRDeviceVendorName</key>
          <string>SAMSUNG</string>
        </dict>
      </array>
      <key>DRDeviceProfile</key>
      <dict>
        <key>DRDeviceDescription</key>
        <string>16x48x24x48 Combo</string>
      </dict>
      <key>DRDeviceProfileVersion</key>
      <integer>1</integer>
    </dict>
  </array>
</plist>
[robg adds: I haven't tested this, but if it works, I think a lot of folks will be quite happy!]

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