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Q: How can I easily add burn support for my unsupported drive? (Patchburn)
A: For users of OS X 10.3.x:
As of Oct. 5th, 2004 patchburn II for Panther is no longer available, it's been replaced by Patchburn 3 which you can download at http://www.patchburn.de/download.html.
" PatchBurn 3 has arrived. Besides a lot of bugfixes it will give you true "vendor support level" in the Apple System Profiler and support for iDVD 4 with many internal and external DVD writers. (Patchburn 1/2 usually added iDVD support for internal drives but you had to use the tip noted this spring (download of 2 files - see FAQ's DVD section) to burn to external drives with iDVD.-Mike) Please download the current english beta at:
http://www.patchburn.de
PatchBurn 3 is still free. Any feedback would be great. Write to patchburn@mac.com
Greetings, Chris "Thousands of readers have used Patchburn to add burn support for unsupported drives - many thanks to Chris for providing these and eliminating all the "hand work" that used to be required.
If you try Patchburn 3, please post a drive database report (I've added "Patchburn 3" as a driver option, previously patchburn reports were filed under "apple hacked" driver selection) or send a report on your drive using it.
For users of OS X 10.2.x: (Info from late summer 2003 follows) There's a utility for OS X 10.2.x called "PatchBurn" (from Macwelt.de) for adding burn support in 10.2.x for many unsupported drives without having to manually edit or install device plugin files.
As of Sept. 21st 2003, PatchBurn 1.1 is now available in an English version (as well as the original German).
"Hello, I like to inform you, that my tool PatchBurn is now available in an english version.PatchBurn 1.1 english:
http://www.macwelt.de/magazin/0310/PatchBurn1.1en.sitPatchBurn 1.1 german:
http://www.macwelt.de/magazin/0310/PatchBurn1.1.sitIt would be nice, if you could announce these news to the readers of xlr8yourmac.com
Many Thanks and greetings from germany
Chris Moeller"For users of OS X 10.1.x and OS 9.x:
There's an article at the main www.xlr8yourmac.com site Misc/OS topics page on Guide/Tips for Discburner/iTunes Burn Support File Editing (hand editing the files.)
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