Burned a BR Disc - comes up unreadable

[Andre J]

Just got MCE Tech's Blu Ray burner fro the MAC PRO along with Toast.

 

It's a MATSHITA BD-MLT SW-5582

 

Tried writing to a dual layer 50GB BD disc, but TOAST wanted to span two discs?! So, maybe it doesn't support dual layer with this burner?

 

Wrote a 22 GB data disc (45 minutes!) only to have it refuse to mount on the desktop.

 

Did a quick erase.. .. it wouldn't show up as writable.

 

Did a long erased, as it was a TDK DB-RE 25 GB (45 minutes).. it still wouldn't show up as writable.

 

Tried the dynamic format (instant).. it still wouldn't show up as writable.

 

Did a quick erase.. it showed up as writable.

 

Wrote a smaller 8 GB data disc, only to have it refuse to mount on the desktop.

 

The documentation for BR burning in Toast is microscopic, with no troubleshooting...

 

Anybody have any ideas?

 

Aj

[Andre J]

In the Toast 8 setup assistant, you have to install the BD support kext and restart the computer.

 

Thanks, but I did that already. So that was not the problem.

 

For some reason, everything has started working.

 

What I have learned is that dynamic writing is VERY, VERY, VERY slow... but very cool for incremental backups.

 

If you need to write a lot of data, disk at once is the way to go.

[freshburn]

In the Toast 8 setup assistant, you have to install the BD support kext and restart the computer.