Posted by: tfabris
Burning CDRs in Mac OS X - 15/06/2006 23:00
I've been trying to put a large AVI file onto a CDR, using the Disk Utility in Mac OS X on my PowerPC-based Mac Mini. I'm having trouble.
I create a disk image on the desktop. I drag my AVI file into the disk image, so far so good. Then I go into disk utility, select the disk image, and hit "burn".
The drive immediately spins up to about 10 billion RPM and sounds like a buzz saw. The system completely freezes up for about ten minutes while the drive makes this awful noise. Eventually, it ejects the disc and complains that it couldn't burn the disc, and the system unfreezes.
I've successfully used this drive to burn audio CDs with iTunes, so I know the drive works.
BUT... it only works if I tell iTunes (in preferences/advanced/burning) to burn at 4x.
I think the problem is that this drive (and the disk utility) tries to burn the disc at the maximum possible speed unless I tell it otherwise. But I don't see an option in the disk utility to do that. Only iTunes seems to give me the option to slow down the burn.
Does anyone have any ideas or help?
Posted by: matthew_k
Re: Burning CDRs in Mac OS X - 15/06/2006 23:24
My usual method:
Slide CD in
Tell it to "Open Finder" (perhaps counterintuitive here)
Go to the finder window, on the left you'll see "Untitled CD"
Click on "Untitiled CD" and drag-and-drop stuff into it.
Click the nuclear radiation sybol next to "Untitled CD". At this point it should let you select the burn speed.
All that being said, I've used disk utility to burn iso's plenty of times and never had a problem with it.
Matthew
Posted by: Anonymous
Re: Burning CDRs in Mac OS X - 16/06/2006 04:28
Maybe the disk image is too big? My first time making a disk image with the Disk Utility, it turned a 2 mb file into a 10 mb disk image. I think I clicked the 'New' button within the Disk Utility to make the image.
But it works fine if I goto File >> New Image From Folder >> Choose a folder >> and Choose compressed image.
I'm not on my Mac right now, so I might have some of the verbiage wrong.
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Burning CDRs in Mac OS X - 16/06/2006 17:32
Hm. May be a moot point.
Remember how I said it locked up so hard that I needed to pull the power cord?
Well, after I plug the power cord back in, the mac won't boot. Sits there at the spinnythingy screen for like, forever. Then goes to a blank blue screen with a mouse pointer that won't move. Forever. Still not booting. Just sitting there.
Now what.
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Burning CDRs in Mac OS X - 16/06/2006 17:32
What's the warranty on these things?
Posted by: matthew_k
Re: Burning CDRs in Mac OS X - 16/06/2006 17:45
One year, take it to your closest apple store, or ship it off.
Apple's warantys are severly lagging. Dell will come to you and fix a laptop that you dropped out the window (accidentally) if you buy their best warranty. You can't buy that coverage from apple, no matter how much you'd pay. They lost 8k in monitor sales over that point from us. Dell's market share may be larger, but apple could alwas impliment a FedEx overnight both ways with one day turnaround solution.
Matthew
Posted by: drakino
Re: Burning CDRs in Mac OS X - 16/06/2006 18:56
http://www.apple.com/support/It has a serial number form on the right hand side towards the bottom. Plug it in there and it will tell you the warranty status.
If it is slightly outside the window, i'd let them know how long this issue has existed. It seems the drive or something has been bad for a while, and you were working around it by lowering the burn speed. In all my time of owning a mac with a CD burner (2002), I have never had a burn process lock the system. Even when the burner did go out in my old G4 Cube, it would just report some error on the attempt and move on.
Posted by: matthew_k
Re: Burning CDRs in Mac OS X - 16/06/2006 19:17
Apply power while holding down the eject key. It might work.
Matthew
Posted by: TigerJimmy
Re: Burning CDRs in Mac OS X - 16/06/2006 19:18
I don't have a current Mac, but every one I have had in the past has a tiny little paper-clip sized hole inside of which is the CD eject button. Come to think of it, I think a newer one may have used a keyboard combination to eject the CD.
There is a way to do it. I don't remember which model you have or I'd google it myself.
Posted by: mlord
Re: Burning CDRs in Mac OS X - 16/06/2006 19:49
Press/hold the Option key while powering on, and wait for the boot options to appear.
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Burning CDRs in Mac OS X - 16/06/2006 21:09
Ah. SHIFT is the secret handshake for safe mode bootng, and that worked.
After a safe mode boot and a reboot, the mini works fine now.
Gah.