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Is this Superdrive a DVD-RW drive?


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The literature says it's a "DVD-R/CD-RW" drive, but Apple System Profiler calls it a DVD-RW. If so - great - because I can do DVD backups and reuse the disks. The model (Pioneer I believe) is a DVR-104. Anyone know whether this is actually a DVD-RW and if Apple (or Retrospect specifically) supports rewriting DVDs on this drive?

 

 

 

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Yes, the Apple SuperDrive is a DVD-RW drive. I don't believe Apple software supports rewrite (yet) but Toast Titanium does. However, Apple software (such as iDVD) can write to DVD-RW discs but you have to trick the software into doing so. There are threads on how to do this in the iDVD forum on Apple's site.

 

 

 

I also don't know about Retrospect's support of DVD-RW. I haven't bothered to try since Retrospect only writes at <10 Mb/min with the SuperDrive.

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> I also don't know about Retrospect's support of DVD-RW.

 

> I haven't bothered to try since Retrospect only writes at

 

> <10 Mb/min with the SuperDrive.

 

 

 

When I bring up Retrospect to backup to the SuperDrive, it only lists it as a CD-R drive. If I pop a DVD blank into the drive, I get an "unable to write" error.

 

 

 

Anyone successfully use the SuperDrive to write to DVD?

 

 

 

 

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