Thread: Need Blu Ray burner for 1st Gen Mac Pro

if the onboard sata ports are a bad idea and don't function well, why are they there? also a sata to ide adapter affect drive performance?

Quote: Originally Posted by TheStrudel ...and even reads HD DVDs, not that that's relevant. Hey, now! Some of us have HD DVDs to watch! And $205? You can do better than that. I bought mine in March '07 for $327, but it was $100 on Newegg this holiday season. Technology... go figure.

Quote: Originally Posted by NATO I got a SATA cable which had a 'L-shaped' connector at one end, I was able (through much fiddling and cursing) to get it connected to the motherboard without actually having to disassemble anything. I then carefully routed it up the back and into the optical bay and connected a SATA hard drive, which works 100% in Mac OS X. For some reason the spare motherboard SATA ports don't work in Windows...

Quote: Originally Posted by kingkezz You'd think so. That's how I had it connected originally. But as I said, it worked in OS X but would crash Encore, meaning I couldn't burn blu-ray. The adapter works a treat. No issues. Good to know! Thanks for sharing that, I wouldn't have thought there would be any issues

Quote: Originally Posted by Nadav35 I got the odd ports to boot into windows on a 2008 mac pro. This is contradicting all your other postings in your thread http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=815159 saying that you cannot boot into Windows on the ODD SATA ports on your MP3,1. What did you do to succeed with the job?

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Hey, now! Some of us have HD DVDs to watch! And $205? You can do better than that. I bought mine in March '07 for $327, but it was $100 on Newegg this holiday season. Technology... go figure. I know which sale you're talking about - that was the GGC-H20L. That one's only BD-ROM. They ran the GGW-H20L at that price just after that sale, at the price I bought it at. Interestingly enough,...

Not all BluRay drives are SATA. I made that same mistake when I replied that in another thread and was pointed with a link to an IDE BR drive. Here's one for example, http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...100A-R&cat=DVD .

I bought the Buffalo external drive and it works great on my Mac Pro using Toast 9. http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Buffa...oductDetail.do

Apple has stated that they are not meant for use(on board ODD PORTS) - Well, then why are they there? Where did Apple say this? Please back up your source, or don't post it at all! besides, I got the odd ports to boot into windows on a 2008 mac pro. Quote: Originally Posted by kingkezz Another vote for the LG. I bought mine in January last year. I am only now (December) able to burn blu ray. Do not use the SATA ports on the motherboard....

How about the Plextor PX-B920UF? It's an Mac compatible external Blu-ray rewriter with Firewire/USB 2.0 that also can read HD-DVD's.