In a fit of stupidity I decided to upgrade my blueray combo drive to a blueray burner. On the good side that left me with a Pioneer combo drive to play with. So I attached a PATA adapter and installed it in my MDD running 10.5. Played a DVD movie on it, booted an installer disk by holding down the c key. Also burned a DVD with Toast.
Next I moved it over to a Yikes running OS 9.2.2. Seemed to work the same as any ide optical drive. Booted 10.4 and that went well enough too
Only issue so far is that when playing a DCD in either machine, the audio output from the DVD is very very low. Same using both the Apple DVD player and VLC. I'll try a different adapter when i get home. There’s no audio connector so OS9 is out unless you’re into subtitles
Next I moved it over to a Yikes running OS 9.2.2. Seemed to work the same as any ide optical drive. Booted 10.4 and that went well enough too
Only issue so far is that when playing a DCD in either machine, the audio output from the DVD is very very low. Same using both the Apple DVD player and VLC. I'll try a different adapter when i get home. There’s no audio connector so OS9 is out unless you’re into subtitles