PowerBook G4 and +R/RW DVDs

By kurisu. Original by Lionel - 18/05/2004 07:14:01 CEST - Category: CD Drives

Thank you Olivier for this information.

While reading through the documentation of the Panasonic (Matshita) UJ-825 found in the newest Powerbooks, I found out that it supports +R/+RW as well as -R/-RW (and apparently RAM too) medias.
So I tried to burn a DVR+RW with Toast 5.2.3 and, Oh joy, it works ! The burning process went without a hitch and so goes reading the disc from the Finder.
And there is more. Disk Utility says the media is a DVD+RW (Read only), but can glady erase it for you...
Feeling I was on a roll, I re-insert the said DVD+RW in the PB. The Finder mounts it as a blank disc and asks me if I would like to format it in HFS+, to which I clicked yes. Then one can write to the disc via the Finder. The result still being a DVD+RW (even the disc icon says so !)
However I do not have a DVD-RAM handy, but I would not be surprised if it worked...