[G4] Dual Layer DVD Unit

[Steve Goldstein]

Yes.  But, keep in mind that, as long as you have plenty of room on your hard drive, you can copy the DVD to a temporary file and then insert a blank DVD -R and copy the temp file to it.  All with just one drive.  So, you really do not need to buy a FW enclosure to hold your existing DVD-ROM drive.  Maybe a bit more cumbersome, but you really don't need two drives (although I have two).  In any event, I would put the latest burner in my Mac. 

One more thing: since you did not have a DVD burner installed, you may not have iDVD installed either.  One way to do that is to get the shareware "Pacifist" to open your install disks.  Then, find iDVD and install it.

And, remember, there is not enough room to put it where the Zip resides without performing serious surgery on the Mac.  Don't go there. 

--Steve

At 8:51 PM -0700 5/29/05, Anthony Kluck wrote:
>...would it be smarter to change out the two optical drives, putting the burner in the tower, and use a Firewire DVD-ROM as the other "source" for copying (or, possibly, convert the existing DVD-ROM into a Firewire drive)?