[Shaun Harrison]

Hi Larry,

Well I took the plunge and purchased the BDR-203 on your confidence. I’m hoping that the guys I’ve heard from have just installed it incorrectly or something. Anyway, I guess I will find out next week.

Thanks for your help Larry.

[Shaun Harrison]

Hi Larry,

Thank you for your post.

Most people I’ve spoken to so far tell me to stay away from the BDR203. I’ve been told that, if connected internally via the SATA to SATA cable, Mac OS X sees it as an internal hard drive, not an optical drive, and therefore no applications can see it or write to it.

Obviously I don’t want to buy this drive if it’s not going to work for me! Have you heard better stories?

If not the Pioneer, then I would probably go for the old LG GGW-H20L, which appears to work according to James Fields article on Ken Stone almost a year ago : https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/blu-ray_fcp_fields.html. Hopefully the software/OS X hasn’t changed so much since then that this won’t work!

It would be great just to hear some success stories with either of these drives!

[Shaun Harrison]

Hi Lars,

I know this post is over 6 months old, but I’m really interested to know more about the VXA-320 tape drive. Is it portable? Therefore could be plugged into a MacBook Pro on location for back-up? And does it just mount like a standard external firewire drive would?

I would be grateful if you could help me in any way, I have a shoot in 2 weeks and want to create tape back-ups on location.

Would be great if you could e-mail me to give me further information – pictopictures@me.com.

Thank you in advance for your help and I look forward to hearing from you.
Shaun.