On 27 Dec 2004, at 6:46 PM, Richard Clark wrote: > thanks everyone for your suggestions just got back from the store > bought the cheapest external drive they had it is a LG GSA-5160D with > firewire and usb 2.0 says it is mac compatible so wish me luck 16x > super multi dvd/cd rewriter. reads and writes all formats +&- > > Richard well i plugged it in and it shows up in system profiler but under disk burning it says not supported. :( guess i'm out of luck too bad i don't live in the states or i'd take it back to the store unfortunately this is Italy and once you buy it you keep it. ARGGGGGGGG Richard