#Blu ray software mac os x how to#
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My experiences with the LG BH10LS30 / Mac Pro 2008 combo Burning a Blu-ray disk in Toast Titanium

Put everything back together and reconnect your Mac Pro.

Connect it to the sata cable and 4-pins power connector. There are some cool, more solid shaped screws in the side of the empty tray of the Mac Pro, I used them instead of the more common looking screws that came with the blu-ray burner. I вЂpre-bendedвЂ™ the cable somewhat, just at the end, before connecting it, because I didnвЂ™t want to put any force on the motherboard. However, it came with a plain SATA cable and it fits fine.

Because LG Netherlands said it would come without a SATA cable, I had already ordered a SATA cable elsewhere with a 90 degree bent connector specially for it, but the had send me a shorter version and it turned out to be to short (only by a centimeter or two.).

Several people write about how hard it is to connect the SATA cable to the Mac Pro and they often talk about 90 degrees bended SATA connectors and all kinds of other, less efficient ways to connect the drive.

Lead the SATA cable from the top thourgh the gap on the opposing side / bottom of the top compartment down to the motherboard and plug it in one of the two connectors.

If not, you forgot the screw рџ‰ Also, apparently there are also Mac Pro models that have two screws, so it itвЂ™s still stuck, go hunt for the second one. Take out the fan holder, it will slide out without resistance (in contrary to the older G5 models).

Then take out the screw on the bottom of the fan holder and be carefull not to drop it in the innerds of the Mac Pro.

(You can remove the glue with some gasoline and glue them back again if you want to really fix this, but observe the original positions.) Just press them back in their original place. Because the magnets are fixed to the alumium with thin, double sided tape that isnвЂ™t very resistend to warmth, chances are one or two have come lose.

Take of the aluminium, magnetically fixed вЂhoodвЂ™ next to the plastic fan holder case.

There is a black, 4-pins connector вЂhiddenвЂ™ in the back that you can use for power. There is a second, empty drive bay in every Mac Pro you can easily fasten a second, standard size disk drive in, like a Blu-ray disk burner.

Shut down your Mac Pro, disconnect it, take of the side panel and ground yourself to the metal body (hard to miss anyway).

IвЂ™m not sure every drive model out there has a bezel that you need to take off, but so far every drive IвЂ™ve seen did.

Take off the plastic front bezel of the drive, before trying to fit it in your Mac, else the tray wonвЂ™t fit through the opening of the case of the Mac Pro.

(SeriouslyвЂ¦ donвЂ™t they want to sell drives?! Mac Pro users want Blu-ray burners! ThatвЂ™s why I wrote this article.) Please mail me if you know about other drives that are compatible (orВ incompatible!). This can be a problem, because for example even the national LG support desk had no information at all in their system about how compatible their drives are with Macs and OS X. Just make sure you order one that works with your machine.

#Blu ray software mac os x how to#

HereвЂ™s how itвЂ™s done: Overview of the inside of a Mac Pro and how to add a SATA cable for a blu-ray drive Put the internal Blu-ray burner in the Mac Pro However, according to the French National Laboratory of Metrology and Testing, M-DISCвЂ™s showed similar deterioration in quality as other (inorganic) DVD disks in their test. Some drives are compatible with MillenniataвЂ™s M-DISCвЂ™s, that claims that their discs last longer, thoughВ require a more powerful laser because of the material they use. This how-to should work with just about any compatible model aftermarket internal drive, but I would Google the exact type before you order it. I used an LG BH10LS30, but Amazon no longer sells them. For example, the LG WH10LS30 is not fully compatible with all Mac Pro models (it works with the Mac Pro 5. The Mac Pro so far works with вЂany compatible modelвЂ™ but that is the problem: Several blu-ray burner models donвЂ™t work with OS X. So I think itвЂ™s safe to say Blu-ray works with all Mac Pro models, at least in this time-line. So far, I have received mails from people claiming successfully building the BH10LS30 in Mac Pro models from 1.1 (week 32, 2006) to the Mac Pro 2010 models. Update: ItвЂ™s hard to find info about what models are supported. I donвЂ™t understand why people make such a big deal out of this or why Apple doesnвЂ™t sell them. Add a Blu-ray burner to your Mac ProДЄdding a Blu-ray burner to your Mac Pro can be done cheap, fast and easy. You might want to get up to speed with Blu-ray first and read a little introduction about what Blu-ray disks are and where the standard comes from.