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Really...the XCaret Pro CD/RW drive will burn under OS X 10.1 By Rob McNair-Huff The kind folks at MCE Technologies in California informed me that the XCaret Pro CD/RW in the expansion bay of my PowerBook 2000 FireWire cannot burn data CDs under OS X 10.1 unless I pay for and install the beta version of Toast for OS X, but after a little experimenting, I found that I can burn data CDs under OS X. Here is the low-down: The first step in burning a data CD with this drive is to open up Disk Copy (in the Applications folder under Utilities) and go to the Image pulldown menu and select New Blank Image. After creating a 660 MB CD image, Disk Copy will create the disk image and mount it, making it available for you to copy items to the new disk that will then be burned to CD-R or CD-RW. The limitation, of course, is that you can only place up to 660 MB of data on the disk image. Once the disk image is as full as you want it to be, click on the disk and unmount it (I usually use the Apple key E key combination to eject the disk). Click back into the Disk Copy application and go to the Image menu and choose Burn Image. Disk Copy will have you select the image you want to burn, so you simply select the image and wait until Disk Copy asks you to insert a CD, then slide it into the tray of the MCE XCaret Pro CDRW Drive and then click the Burn icon and let the burning begin. Burning CDs through Disk Copy is a bit slow, but if you need to back up critical data or move a catalog of MP3s or something, this is a good and inexpensive option using software built into OS X 10.1 with this specialized CDRW drive from MCE. This is definitely a workaround at this point, and anyone with Toast Titanium Pro CD burning software should have an easier time burning CDs with this expansion bay drive. MCE assures me that burning from the OS X finder should be possible with this CDRW drive with a future update of the OS, and it is supposed to be supported for iTunes burning right now, although it doesn't show up as a burn-capable drive when I try to use it with iTunes 2. Back to current news October 2001 archives September 2001 archives August 2001 archives July 2001 archives June 2001 archives Copyright © 2001 White Rabbit Publishing. All rights reserved.