DVD-RAM

[space-time]

I was looking in my pile of optical discs today and found some Panasonic DVD-RAM dicss. I am not sure what is on them. Could be Movies from my DVD recorder, or files. I do have a Pioneer 110 external drive that could read these. I remember it was possible to read these in OS 9, but I am not sure of OS X can read DVD-RAM? anyone knows? I guess I am abot to find out later today. IIRC, those discs use a UDF (Universal Disc Format), not HFS+.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

There is a chance that they will be incompatible, but they should work fine on any OS X supported drive that is listed as supporting the format.

[RAMd®d]

I've used DVD-RAM discs in OS X, so if you have a compatible drive, should be no problem.

[davemchine]

Wow, that takes me back. I used to record Magnum PI from cable tv to DVD-RAM. Then I loaded it onto my computer but I don't remember the specifics. I think it came over as an mpeg1 file and I had to convert for iTunes. I do remember I was using a G5 and I do remember it took around 22-23 hours per episode at the time.

[Buzz]

I had a beige Mac desktop that had a cartridge loading DVD-RAM drive, then another beige Mac desktop that had a more normal tray loading DVD-RAM that was twice as fast and capacious. Don't remember which exact models they were (Q650/PM7100/7600/7300/G3?), but then later in the PowerMac era there were more Macs that had drives that were still compatible w/ the DVD-RAM media... pretty much purged the whole DVD-RAM saga from the memory cells, but did hang on to a couple of the cartridges for awhile, and still have three shrink wrapped 5.2GB Type 1 discs that I paid $20 each for. IIRC, G4's thru the Gig-E tower were DVD-RAM friendly (bigger/faster Type 2), and some PM's after that could still read 'em, but not write 'em unless an older compatible, or third party drive was used. Probably easier to find someone w/ an older machine to transfer your data, than other options. Also, open to all offers on the three shrink wrapped DVD-RAM media. :-)

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[timg]

I used to use DVD-RAM disks to archive my digital photos. started in OS9 on a Gig-E tower.

There was a change somewhere along the way in OS X that caused it to refuse to write to UDF formatted DVD-RAMs, but I believe it would read them ok.

So, if you have a drive that supports the format, you should be able to read them.