Comments on: How to overburn a CD/DVD in Mac OS X

By: Enrico

Enrico — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:02:06 +0000

Thanks, worked like a charm!

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 07:03:32 +0000

Worked great for me on my hackintosh running leopard 10.5.5 thanks. Have yet to try on my macbook.

By: Walter

Walter — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:45:49 +0000

Worked for me, thanks!
(on brand new iMac 21,5″ – overburnt 732MB on a cheap supermarket ‘Memorex’ 700MB CD). Movie plays fine on quicktime and vlc.

By: ValmirGP

ValmirGP — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:35:20 +0000

Worked for me, Thanks.
[Macbook 13" model MacBook4,1, Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)]
I would speculate bad media too. Some media just can’t handle the overburn. In my case I used a Philips CD-R 700MB 80min CD to burn a 724MB image that Finder didn’t handle.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:41:51 +0000

I guess what I should have mentioned was that this worked for a 13″ macbook running Leopard (10.5.x).

I’ll have to have another go on this machine here (13″ macbook) now that I have Snow Leopard and see if it still works, as well as playing with a Macbook Pro. I guess it is possible that either Apple have disabled this ability with the software, or some Superdrive models may have some sort of firmware block on this ability – but these are both speculation on my behalf!

By: Thibaut

Thibaut — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:34:02 +0000

Yep, same here, “The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.” Tried on my hackintosh and macbook pro 15″ (both running Leopard)

By: rla

rla — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:57:22 +0000

Does not work on my system. Unibody 17″ Macbook Pro 10.5.8 upgraded to 10.6.1 and still getting rejected.
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-868:

Firmware Revision: KA19
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds

“Burn failed
The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.
The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.
hdiutil: burn failed – The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.”

“hdiutil burn tempimage.iso
Please insert a disc:
Media does not have enough free space”

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:23:03 +0000

@RudeDog: Thanks for putting the link to the hdiutil command – it seems a pretty powerful tool! How did the DVD burn go in the end?

By: RudeDog

RudeDog — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:59:50 +0000

I havn’t really used terminal too much and I got this to start burning my video_ts folder that was too big for disk utility to burn within a few minutes. I did run hdiutil imageinfo -format tempimage to see if my image was a cd/dvd master format (apparently that would be reported as UDTO) and it was.

I got some more info from apples website about hdiutil if any else wants to read up on some more commands:

http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/hdiutil.1.html

Thanks for the tip, now I’m crossing my fingers, hoping it will play in my dvd player!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:25:40 +0000

The thing I like about this method compared to others is that it doesn’t require any third-party tools.