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From: DJW on 11 Apr 2010 16:42
I run OS 10.4 and 10.3.9 on a B & W G-3. I have multiple external CD
and DVD burners both on Firewire and USB. Is there some place in the
finder where I can select which burner to use for burning from the
finder or apps lick Itunes?
And is there a way to finalize a DVD or close a CD in the finder and
other apple apps capable of burning?
From: David Empson on 11 Apr 2010 20:47
DJW <ddwr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> I run OS 10.4 and 10.3.9 on a B & W G-3. I have multiple external CD
> and DVD burners both on Firewire and USB. Is there some place in the
> finder where I can select which burner to use for burning from the
> finder

Not needed. Insert a blank disc into any supported disc burner and
Finder will let you burn something onto it.

> or apps lick Itunes?

Other applications like iTunes may have their own preference to select a
burner. If not, they probably pick the "first" burner (which may vary
depending on the order in which they are detected by the system at
startup), or let you use any burner in which a blank disc has been
inserted.

I don't know offhand if iTunes has a setting for this. I can't see
anything obvious in iTunes 9.1.

The only application I've used with multiple burners is Toast, and it
lets you pick a specific supported burner. It shows the currently
selected burner at the bottom of the window and you click on it to pick
a different one. You can run multiple copies of Toast to simultaneously
use several burners (assuming the computer and I/O channels are fast
enough).

> And is there a way to finalize a DVD or close a CD in the finder and
> other apple apps capable of burning?

Discs burned on the Mac are normally finalised unless you use software
which supports burning multi-session CDs; even in this case you usually
need to tell the software to leave an open session for later use.

Finder and many applications can't do this - they always finalise the
disc.

The main examples of software which can leave a CD open for adding
sessions are Toast and recent versions of Disk Utility (don't know if
Disk Utility as far back as 10.3.9 could do multi-session burning).

In Toast, you do this by picking "Write Disc" or "Write Session" at the
point you burn the CD.

In recent versions of Disk Utility, there is a "Leave disc appendable"
option when burning a disk image to CD.

--
David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 12 Apr 2010 01:12
David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> (don't know if Disk Utility as far back as 10.3.9 could do
> multi-session burning).

It could. Before 10.3, Disk Copy could do multisession burns in OS X
10.2 and 10.1.

--
K.

Lang may your lum reek.
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