Pioneer BDR 206 not meant for Macs. Please read.

[Erik Mickelson]

The drive is connected directly to the USB port. This works though only at 1x speed max.

Or, the drive is connected through the express port via Sonnet Pro eSata card. The drive is not recognized this way. If a swap out the BluRay burner for a hard drive, the drive is recognized through the eSata port on the enclosure. This tells me that the drive is incompatible with the enclosure.

Videoguys says that, based on this information, that the enclosure is most likely the culprit. I do not follow that logic. Videoguys wanted me to send them the enclosure, at my cost, then they would ship me a new enclosure. Then if the BluRay burner still is not recognized through the eSata port, then I would ship them the BluRay burner, at my cost, and see if that fixes the problem.

I have asked Videoguys to just tell me what I need to buy to get this to work. I can’t get an answer. I have a feeling that there is no solution and that I will be stuck with this stuff that is not really fully compatible with my MacBook Pro. I just don’t think they have ever tested a working solution, yet sell the stuff anyway.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 8GB ram, SLeopard 10.6.8, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Gary Bettan]

Erik,

Please give me call Friday. I instructed customer service to ship you both a new drive and enclosure – immediately. Then have you return whatever stuff doesn’t work.

Gary

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[Erik Mickelson]

Wow!
That was quick Gary.

Tomorrow I will call.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 8GB ram, SLeopard 10.6.8, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Mel Feliciano]

I’m one of those Mac user customers who bought the Pioneer BDR-206 (OEM). This was about a year and a half ago, when I was still using Snow Leopard. The drive would dismount constantly, forcing me to open the MacPro and physically disconnect and reconnect the drive. After this, I had to reboot the computer and the drive would mount again. The problem was solved after I upgraded the drive firmware. Now I’m using Lion and I’m having the same problem again. I was hoping that a firmware upgrade would fix the problem but Pioneer has not released any more firmwares.

[Nathan Mcneil]

I’m having the same problem on a Snow Leopard system, but I’m having a lot of trouble finding that firmware upgrade for Mac, don’t suppose you remember where you got it from?

[Mel Feliciano]

I found the firmware on

https://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Professional/Computer-Drives/BDR-206

note:Read the warning before a firmware upgrade.

It was a long time ago but I pretty much sure I upgraded the firmware running Windows 7 on my Mac Pro via bootcamp. That fixed the dismounting problem. Then when I installed Lion, I thought I got the same problem back again but it was actually a configuration setting in the System Preferences.