{"id":474,"date":"2004-05-29T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2004-05-29T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2004-05-29T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2004-05-29T20:00:26","slug":"installed-a-retail-superdrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Installed a Retail Superdrive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pioneer.gif\" id=\"image473\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/pioneer.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today I upgraded my Power Mac G4 by adding a Superdrive (DVD Burner).  I purchased the  \t  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pioneerelectronics.com\/pna\/product\/detail\/0,,2076_15019916_72341396,00.html\">Pioneer DVR-A07XLA DVD Writer<\/a>  \t  which is a new version of the drives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a> calls the Superdrive for $150. I installed the drive in the lower drive bay of my Power Mac (mirror door), I made sure the drive was set to &#8216;Cable Select&#8217;. The only thing I forgot to do was remove the face of the the drive, which slides right off. Once the face was off I was able to get the drive to eject by using the &#8216;option + eject&#8217; command on the keyboard (that&#8217;s how you open the second drive bay). My Mac recognized the drive automatically and successfully burned a movie via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ilife\/idvd\/\">iDVD 4<\/a> right off the bat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I upgraded my Power Mac G4 by adding a Superdrive (DVD Burner). I purchased the Pioneer DVR-A07XLA DVD Writer which is a new version of the drives Apple calls the Superdrive for $150. I installed the drive in the lower drive bay of my Power Mac (mirror door), I made sure the drive was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-7E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}