[Mark Palmos]

[walter biscardi] “Not the aluminum gate on the Mac Pro, you need to snap off the front of the actual drive tray on the burner. The Mac Pro has a narrower opening that the older G5’s so you just snap that off the front and it will open in a Mac Pro.”

Walter, your FastMac was 95% installed before you even bought the drive, it seems. MacPro does not come with the SATA cable pre-installed!

What takes the better part of an hour for an adept person is to take apart the computer and put in the damned SATA cable.

You have to remove all memory, the memory case, the sheeth between memory case and fan assembly, then the fan assembly (very difficult to move) then put in the cable, then try find a way to get it from there to the drive, then find the provided cable is TOO HIGH for the fan assembly to go back again, and then put it all back together again.

Unfortunately mine did not work at all, it makes grunting sounds and does not work in my PC either, so I have returned it for a refund, I will buy an external burner, deal with the slower 2x speed but gain added versatility for laptop, pc etc…

[Mark Palmos]

hmmm
the external is tempting since i have a macbookpro too…
maybe i will ask for a refund instead of another one.
thanks for the headsup.
mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hello all
FastMac sent me an RMA to return the machine. I tried it in my PC at home, had similar lack of response and some clunking noises… so it must be a faulty drive.
Its pretty lame this seems to be about the only drive out there for mac.
Ta
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[walter biscardi] “Wonder if the entire package would just go back to Windows since it started there anyway.”

God, I WISH that would happen, not only to get away from OSX but also to get away from Apple’s closed shop mentality… torturous having come from Adobe where contact with engineers and product developers is very easy.

[Mark Palmos]

[David Roth Weiss] “So??? Once we liked Sadaam Hussein, now we don’t. Once we liked Osama Bin Laden, now we don’t. People are allowed to change their minds…”

lol
quite right david
maybe in 50 years time osama T-shirt sales will overtake Che T-shirt sales

[Mark Palmos]

[David Roth Weiss] “Gosh Mark, what is it about you and NLEs? If you adopt one, doom is soon to follow… Must be that Greek tragedy thing.”

heh heh
believe me, it is NOT intentional, but then i guess it wouldnt be much of a tradegy if it was…
lets take this thing offline, im sure it will get the rumour police running about if we carry on… speak soon
xmark.

[Mark Palmos]

yeah but to be even more fair (heh heh) FCP chokes even if there is NO video and plenty of audio tracks.
catcha later
m

[Mark Palmos]

Finder does not burn BluRay disks.

What I was saying is that Finder does not show anything when you put a CD or a DVD into the FastMac drive (it should)

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Finder does not burn BluRay disks.

What I was saying is that Finder does not show anything when you put a CD or a DVD into the FastMac drive (it should)

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Twas a fantastic move, loved it… definitely worth seeing, and women will love it too, great for valentines…