LaCie 16X LightScribe DL d2 install error

[buzzair]

I too am having issues with an external drive. I just bought the LaCie 16X LightScribe DL d2 DVDRW 300978U today.

It's recognizes the drive when I hook up through firewire & USB but I can't install the LaCie Diskrecording.pkg install software. When it's installing it tells me it cannot continue with the install because of errors. That's it, no other information.

I am running OSX 10.4.7 800Mhz PowerPC G3 ibook w/ 640MB of RAM.

Anyone else have this problem? Suggestions?

This is what my disc burning info looks like in Mac..about..
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-W162L:

Firmware Revision: LC03
Interconnect: FireWire
Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)
Profile Path: None
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No

I hope I don't have to take this back because this appears to be one of the best reviewed DVD burners that supports Mac. I got a sweet deal on it too through my University bookstore.

Any help is apprecaited, thanks guys.

 

[Ric]

Hi there and welcome,

Sorry I missed this earlier.

Have you sorted it ?

regards

Ric

 

[buzzair]

This is what Lacie tech support told me

Thank you for the update. Here is how to manually install LaCie Disc
Recording Support:

-Open the Disc Recording .dmg file you downloaded
-Hold down the CTRL key and click on the discrecording.pkg file
-Click on "show package contents"
-open the "contents" folder
-open the "resource" folder
-Take the "lacie.drprofile" file and move it to the desktop, close
windows
-Go to Mac HD->Library->DiscRecording->DeviceProfiles (If you do not
have any of the folders, you will have to create them)
-drag the "lacie.drprofile" file to the DeviceProfilers folder, if
prompted to replace a file, click yes.
-Restart your computer
-The patch is now installed; check your Apple System Profiler for the
burner under FW/USB and it should say Disc Burning: Vendor Supported.



However I found a better solution....use my fiancee's new Macbook Pro lol

I figured its just as well cause it works faster when I'm burning and backing up my movies.

 

[Cory Cooper]

Go

Did the LaCie steps work for you on the iBook?

 

[buzzair]

Tell you the truth, I haven't done it yet.

I'll do it now for the benefit of others who could use this info.

 

[buzzair]

It appears to work.

My system profiler now says this

TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-W162L:

Firmware Revision: LC03
Interconnect: FireWire
Burn Support: Yes (Vendor Supported)
Profile Path: /Library/DiscRecording/DeviceProfiles/LaCie.drprofile
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No

So those of you with this problem, here's your solution, direct from Lacie tech themselves.

 

[searay345]

Hello Buzzair!

Thank you for posting your findings. Your solution may help out others.

Searay

 

[broadcast_techie]

Hi, I have a macbook pro, and the lacie (designed by FA Porche)...

When I first installed it, it was great, twice as fast for burning dvd's compared to inbuilt drive, but not it just won't recognise dvd's at all, commercial or blanks.... have tried the above steps, but nothing.

The only thing I think may have changed is updating the Firmware to v3...

Any ideas???

Kris

 

[Cory Cooper]

Go

Try repairing disk permissions using Disk Utility on your OS X HD. May fix it.

C

 

[broadcast_techie]

thank you thank you thank you, you have saved me from attempting to rebuild my system from scratch (am a windows user by birth)

again thank you, will be on here often now!!!

Kris

 

[Cory Cooper]

Go

No problem.

Keep a mental note of that when things go awry...it fixes a lot of strange happenings.

Cheers