What is DVD-RAM TuneUp 2.0.5?

So you have your DVD drive, but what do you do with it? The Hitachi drive doesn’t yet ship with Mac drivers, and Apple drivers may not work when they’re dealing with some aspects of the drive, such as writing to UDF volumes (the Mac OS only supports reading, not writing). Software Architects’ DVD-RAM TuneUp 2.0 fills the gap.

Installing and using DVD-RAM TuneUp 2.0 is easy. The new software goes to work immediately. It reads CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and DVD-ROMs, and reads and writes DVD-RAM media. DVD-RAM TuneUp 2.0 seamlessly switches among the various media as you drop them into the drive; each one shows up in the Finder correctly. DVD-RAM TuneUp 2.0 allows you to format new media, perform some tests, and adjust the DVD-RAM’s caching abilities, which should speed up some disk operations. Unfortunately, because of the lack of alternative DVD-RAM drivers, we couldn’t test how caching affected the drive’s speed.

DVD-RAM TuneUp 2.0 handled the Hitachi drive wonderfully. We had occasional trouble with disks not mounting on the desktop, but we couldn’t pin dovm the source of this intermittent problem. A restart usually cured it; we also used the DVD-RAM TuneUp interface to mount the volume manually.

Reynolds, David. (July 1999). DVD-RAM TuneUp 2.0. MacAddict. (pg. 58).

Download DVD-RAM TuneUp 2.0.5 for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver