I have a Powermac G3 Blue and White running 8.6 OS. It currently has a CD-ROM drive. I am looking at buying a Hitachi DVD camcorder, which records on 8cm DVD-RAM discs.

Does anyone know of an internal drive I can install in place of the CD drive that will read these DVD-RAM video discs, plus read CD-ROM discs, and burn DVD-R discs?

Also, any suggestions on applicable software to burn the DVD-R discs would be appreciated.

Thanks for the help.

Tim

A dvd-ram drive!

I don't think there's anything on the market that will burn DVD-R format *and* read DVD-RAM.

p

Macmall have a firewire gvp with the following
specs!

* Write Support - DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-
RW
* Read Support - DVD-ROM single layer/dual
layer, DVD-R (all types), DVD-RW, CD-ROM
Mode1, CD-ROM XA Mode2 (form 1, form 2), CD-
TEXT, Photo CD (single and multiple session),
CD-DA (Audio CD), CD-Extra, CD-R, CD-RW
(Supports AM2)
* Write Speed - DVD-R: 2X-CLV (2.76 MB/s), 1X-
CLV (1.38 MB/s)

DVD-RW: 1X-CLV (1.38MB/s)

CD-R: 8X-CLV (1.41 MB/s), 4X-CLV (0.70 MB/s)

CD-RW: 4X-CLV (0.70MB/s)

* Read Speed - DVD-ROM (Single): Max. 4X-CAV
(5.52 MB/s)

DVD-ROM (Dual): 2X-CLV (2.76MB/s)

DVD-R, DVD-RW: 2X-CLV (2.76 MB/s)

CD-ROM: Max. 24X-CAV (4.23MB/s)

CD-R,CD-RW: Max. 16X-CAV (2.82MB/s)

CD-Audio: Max. 10X-CAV (1.76MB/s)

Video-CD: 4X-CLV (0.70MB/s)

* Access Time DVD: 200 Msec

CD: 180 Msec

* Interface ATAPI (ATA/ATAPI-5 & SFFC INF8090
Ver.5)

Data Buffer 512 kBytes (Read)

2Mbytes (Write)

Mounting Orientation Horizontal only

Power Requirement +5V +12V 1.2A 0.9A

Power Consumption Maximum 23.8W

Uh, DVD-RAM isn't on there. Anywhere.

Don't ram's come out of thier cartridge?,I looked
around and from what I've seen there's more
dvd formats than people need!,single layer single
sided,dual single sided layer with four of so..size
capaciities and except for how thier burnt, dvd-
ram,which is a preformated dvd-rw in a removable
cartridge,seems to be supported by most
drives!,the bad part is you need to take them out
their casing!.the writing limits for both dvd-rw's
aswell as the ohter dvd variations seems to be the
same........no dual layer single sided 9.4gb blank media!!

DVD-RAM is a unique format specification. It's not in any way related to DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-R, or anything else.

p

Does that mean panasonic is wrong about thier
recorders specs?

For crying out loud. Their specs don't claim to read DVD-RAM. What part of that didn't you understand the first time I said it?

p

Okay whatever pickle!
There is so such thing as a dvd-ram that reads
dvd-rams and dvd-r's!

http://www.panasonic.com/consumer_electronics/
dvd_recorder/dvd_recorder.asp

If such a thing exists, show it to me. So far you haven't. You've just said "This reads DVD-RAM" when it doesn't say that *anywhere* in the specs.

p

http://www.panasonic.com/office/templates/
PDIC_BuyNow.asp?Category=1052&ModelNo=
lf-d321u

Thank you. *THAT* drive actually will read and write both DVD-R and DVD-RAM.

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be Mac compatible, so allow me to amend my original statement:

There isn't anything on the market that will burn DVD-R *and* read DVD-RAM that can be used with a Mac.

p