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Apple Releases Disc Recording Update 1.0

Posted by pudge on from the yeah-great-now-that-everyone-has-a-built-in-cd-r-drive dept.

micah_lanier writes "From Software Update: The Disc Recording Update delivers additional iTunes and Finder support for a number of LaCie, EZquest, and Iomega CD-R devices. For a specific list of supported devices, visit the Apple CD-R Compatibility site."

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  1. Software update has it, no reboot required by tm2b · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's also available via software update panel in the preferences application.

    Surprisingly, it does not require a reboot.

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  2. Oops! Reboot required! by tm2b · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was wrong, rebooting is required - for whatever reason, I wasn't warned that a reboot would be required before I installed the patch.

    Whatever...

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    "It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
  3. Re:Oops! Reboot required! by IAmATuringMachine! · · Score: 3, Informative

    Rebooting is required to load the drivers into kernel space. Say you have an unsupported drive - to save memory and not cause trouble burning is disabled in finder, etc. We want to detect our newly supported drive and then we can enable such things - could probably do it on the fly, but it's always good to reboot if one's ego can handle it.

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  4. Re:Oops! Reboot required! by Juanvaldes · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wasn't warned that a reboot would be required before I installed the patch.
    Did for me, I think you just glossed over it...

  5. Re:Whats amazing to me is by dthable · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't really think there's much to comment on. When I purchased my CD-RW, I printed out the compatability page and brought it shopping. If it wasn't on the list, I didn't even consider it. I'd bet most Mac users follow this pattern and thus, not a lot of unsupported hardware in the field.

    Besides, what could be more exciting for end users than device drivers?

  6. Re:Oops! Reboot required! by mach_5 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not at my Mac at the moment. But normally when a reboot is required a little blue icon of the Apple power key is shown next to the update, denoting that installation requires a reboot.