I recently upgraded by blue and white G3 to OS 10.3.3. Since then, I
have had a lot of difficulty burning disks on my external Fire Wire
CDRW. I had absolutely ZERO difficulties before the upgrade, and in
over 2 years of use, made only 2 coasters - both of which were operator
errors.

In Toast Titanium 5.2.3, I can _sometimes_ burn very small disks or
multiple small sessions, but this is inconsistent at best. The disk
will start to burn and then I get a freeze at some point in the process.
Sometimes I get the "grey screen of death". I've tried running
simulated burns and get the same result. I've even tried burning at 1x.
At first, I thought the problem was the files I was trying to archive.
They were all Photoshop documents (photos I have scanned) and I wasn't
having any trouble burning the newer images that came straight off my
digital camera. Unfortunately, now even those are giving me fits.

I tried using Disk Utility and have the same results. Ditto for running
Toast when booted in OS9.2.2

I have 384MB RAM, so that shouldn't be the problem. I have 2.02GB free
space on my 10GB HD, so that really shouldn't be the problem either.

Any tips/ideas/suggestions? I am totally desperate -- I'm knee deep in
a photo archiving project, and I can't move anything off my HD!
Everything worked before the upgrade and now I'm on the verge of going
back to OS9.

Try moving your files to your internal drive and burning them from
there. Or, perhaps some files are on your external drive and one or more
are on your internal drive, that might also cause a problem.

Cindy Murray wrote:
> I recently upgraded by blue and white G3 to OS 10.3.3. Since then, I
> have had a lot of difficulty burning disks on my external Fire Wire
> CDRW. I had absolutely ZERO difficulties before the upgrade, and in
> over 2 years of use, made only 2 coasters - both of which were operator
> errors.
>
> In Toast Titanium 5.2.3, I can _sometimes_ burn very small disks or
> multiple small sessions, but this is inconsistent at best. The disk
> will start to burn and then I get a freeze at some point in the process.
> Sometimes I get the "grey screen of death". I've tried running
> simulated burns and get the same result. I've even tried burning at 1x.
> At first, I thought the problem was the files I was trying to archive.
> They were all Photoshop documents (photos I have scanned) and I wasn't
> having any trouble burning the newer images that came straight off my
> digital camera. Unfortunately, now even those are giving me fits.
>
> I tried using Disk Utility and have the same results. Ditto for running
> Toast when booted in OS9.2.2
>
> I have 384MB RAM, so that shouldn't be the problem. I have 2.02GB free
> space on my 10GB HD, so that really shouldn't be the problem either.
>
> Any tips/ideas/suggestions? I am totally desperate -- I'm knee deep in
> a photo archiving project, and I can't move anything off my HD!
> Everything worked before the upgrade and now I'm on the verge of going
> back to OS9.

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