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OK so
I tried all those links
and even went to LasVegas' page...
since I got the drive at OWC I also looked there
they even had a link and praised LasVegas...

but even whan I tried to DL the DVRFlash Version 2.2

nothing worked...
so I looked back at the OWC site
here http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other...g/MRFWU2D109A/
and near the bottom of the page
Apple iTunes Support
Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther":
This drive fully supports burning using Apple iTunes when PatchBurn 3 (available here) is used. Installation is a simple one-click process. It is very likely that later revisions of Mac OS X 10.3 will natively support this drive fully and make this step unnecessary.

but from the other drive offered byOWC
here
ttp://eshop.macsales.com/item-specials/Apple/DVR109AB/
found this
If you are using OS X 10.4.3 or later, the full up to 16X DVD Burn and up to 6X DVD Dual-Layer burn speed capabilities are easily enabled with a simple firmware update which takes less than 1 minute and need be performed only once.


The script, available here, will flash this drive to the latest official v1.58 DVR-109 firmware revision which provides the full available feature set, including the continued Apple Native OS X support under 10.4.3 and later.

Note: **This firmware update is specifically for use with the DVR-109AB drive being offered here and will not work with any other drive model. Attempting to use the OWC provided update script on any other drive may result in irreparable damage to said drive**

Many thanks to Las Vegas, for his work on the OS X native (PPC & Intel!) version of DVRFlash, and the entire team at RPC-1.org for their work!


this link got me
apldvr109abflash.zip

which did actually update the drives firmware... only after I went here:
http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=2017

which DL'd the pioneer .exe firmware update, and once I got the widows updater intothe correct folder in the flash updater...
it worked...
then the drive was no longer "Apple suppoerted"
so I wnt back to the OWC page and Dl'd Patch Burn
and
wow
hours and hours later
it worked

now my firmware is up to 1.58
from 1.17

except
this has not helped to solve the burning of the MarcusMiller DVD9 (DualLayer)

BTW my media
wouks fine
I can use it to burn other Dual layer movies that I ripped...

Popcorn will make a disc image
except it compresses it to a sinble layer 4.7 size...
and I could not get DVD2oneX (Preferences->Burning->Output type=File set)
method to work yet either...

arrrrgh!

meanwhile I have watched this excellent video , by compressiong it on to a 4.7gb disc...

any other suggestions
?

I still get the same error codes from popcorn and toast...

thanx
for all the help