Chosen Solution
Hello I have an internal SATA Pioneer BDR drive. I have a Power Mac G5 2.0GHz dual with one internal HD. I would like to dedicate the G5 for BDR data burning. How can I go about doing this? From what I have read Toast 8 will run on PPC and allow for bluray disc burning. What other bits of hard ware do I need? Update (03/13/2019) Just another note (kind of moot but for posterity I suppose) The manual also volunteers the following on page 44: Overview of Making a Data Disc This section describes the basic process of making any data disc with Toast. To make a data disc: 1 At the left side of the Toast window, click on Data. 2 Choose the disc format. For example, choose Mac Only. 3 Choose any optional settings. 4 Add files and folders to the disc by dragging and dropping them into the Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser, or by clicking the Add button at the bottom of the Media Browser. 5 Optional: Rearrange, rename and remove items from the Content Area. See Working With Data Content on page49. 6 Insert a blank, recordable CD, DVD, HD DVD, or Blu-ray disc. 7 Click the red Record button, choose a recorder from the list, and configure recording options, such as “Number of Copies.” 8 Click Record to continue. Toast displays a progress bar and status information as it records your disc. Update (03/13/2019) There is an interesting discussion that I am in the middle of reading, http://macintoshgarden.org/forum/blu-ray…
First, Apple never offered a Blue-ray optical drive for their systems! While you can get 3rd party Blue-ray burners for Mac’s, I have never seen an internal offered for the G5 systems. So why can’t I get one? Simply put, the version of OS-X your PowerPC based G5 system uses needs a different driver than what the newer Intel systems use (Mac Pro). This is the difference between RISC Vs CISC based chip architecture. You would need to create our own driver somehow and this is not a trivial task! Here’s one source for the Mac Pro systems (Intel) Blue-ray burners
I found a solution. LaCie once shipped a LaCie D2 Blu Ray drive. This drive’s system requirements were Mac OS X 10.3.2 and up. After downloading and installing the 52KB software (likely a .kext file sitting in /System/Library/Exensions mt Pioneer BDR-209EBK drive which is currently without an enclosure but connected to the Power Mac G5 (OS X 10.5.8) via a SATA to USB (very cheap) adapter shows it’s inserted disk on the desktop. I installed Toast 10 and clicking the cogwheel on the lower left display the said Pioneer BDR as a viable destination. A PowerMac G5 can burn BluRay data disks if you install LaCie DiscRecording Support 1.26 for (Mac OS X 10.3.2 through 10.3.x 1.26) https://www.lacie.com/gb/en/support/dvd/… I hope this helps others solve similar issues and help keep the usefulness of the PowerMac G5 continue at least in the BDR age. Special thanks to Dan who kept the conversation going. Kind regards —Alex
