[NeverFade]

Hello.

I have a dual 2.0 G5, and I was getting set to burn a DVD. I thought my drive could handle 8x burning of the DVD disc. Inside of toast the setting for speed was on BEST. I clicked the menu just to see what my choices were. I was impressed that the choices for DVD, not CD was 1,2,4,8,16 and 32x! I was thinking that this was great. So, I put it the blank DVD in the drive wating to be written, and then the menu changed from the numbers that I just said, to 1,2 and 4x! Now, I know you might be thinking that I only had a 4x blank DVD in the drive, but I had an 8x blank DVD in the drive!

So, what's the deal here? Anyone know? It appears that the super drive on my machine could handle 32x if I had the media, but even when I only had an 8x in the drive it went down to a messily 4x.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,

-JJ

[Ebby]

It is more likely that Toast could handle 32x media if you have a drive that fast. No drive that I know of can write DVD's at 32X, so that couldn't be the case.

The superdrives can handle 4X and many 8X, but those that can run at 8X care crippled by special firmware to limit the speed/functionality of the drive. I know, I don't like it either.