Thanks Jim! Since my original post, I've discovered that some of those who have had success w/this combination did so by running a vendor supplied utility which allowed them to set an advanced flag which enables "detect drives with non-standard signatures". I would guess this utility is part of the Oxford 911 developers kit. My FW case came with no software, so I'm off to try and find a copy of it. >Yes as it happens, I just did it. But like you I had a combo case would >not work. But I had an older case for a CD-RW(16x10x40 Firewire CDRW) >which did. Both case came from FireWire Direct. I moved the DVD-Ram to >the older case, moved the CR-RW to the new case and life works at least >in OS 10.2.3. I've not tried it in OS 9.2.2. > >The OXford Bridge may no work with the DVD-Ram... You might need to >request an older case