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Yamaha CDR-F1 in iTunes...Success!
Authored by: aalegado on Dec 14, '02 08:50:50PM

I posted earlier about using this drive successfully in the Finder but having iTunes fail to report it. I visited xclr8yourmac.com and found the hacked plug-in that enables iTunes to see the drive.

I have read in various places that the hack isn't necessary under OS X 10.2.2 but even after upgrading to 10.2.2 my iTunes failed to report the presence of the Yamaha. My "old reliable" Que! Fire 8x4x32 remained visible through the upgrade from 10.1.5 to 10.2.2.

After installing the replacement device plugin file I can report that not only does the Yamaha CDR-F1 now show up in iTunes, so does my Que! Fire 8x4x32. In the space where iTunes lists the optical drive it now shows a pop-up menu from which you pick the device you want to burn on. Now, if I click the "Burn" button the drive door on the CDR-F1 opens since that's the drive I select in the Burning panel in the Preferences window.

I left the speed setting on "Maximum" and achieved a burn speed on my single test of about 16.5x (approx. 4 min. to burn 66 min. of music).

I was curious to see if iTunes would allow me to have a CD-R/CD-RW cooking in both drives at once but no dice since it accepts only one disc. I haven't tried this but it might be possible to have a burn going both in iTunes and in the Finder...my Dual 450MHz G4 should have the horsepower and the Firewire bus the bandwidth for it.



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Yamaha CDR-F1 in iTunes...Success!
Authored by: aalegado on Dec 14, '02 08:57:27PM

I forgot to supply some system information for reference purposes:

Dual 450MHz G4, 1.5GB RAM, IBM Deskstar 60GB x2 (connected via UltraTek100+ ATA PCI card), 80GB
OS X v10.2.2
Que! Fire 8x4x32x CD-RW on FireWire port A
Yamaha CDR-F1 44x24x40 (ADS Pyro 1394 Drive Kit) on FireWire port B



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