[G4] FireWire CDRW/DVDRW

[CJ Scaminaci]

Right, so does anyone know of any DVDRW drives? I will be using toast 
or some other 3rd party software. Is there anywhere I can get a list of 
Toast supported DVDRW drives?

CJ
> You will need Toast for the DVD piece actually that also opens up your
> options as to what kind of dvd-rw you can get too since Toast supports
> more writers and using iDVD is a non-issue (it just wont work with
> externals anyway.) Although burn-to-disc is a pretty nice feature for
> cd-rws so that might be a selling point.
>
> Im not sure if you can get away with an IDE card in that and have it 
> work
> or not internally. I havent read anywhere where someone actually tried 
> it.
> But that is probably a non-issue to you too.
>
> I will note I havent tried it my 8600 is a dedicated OS 9 machines for 
> a
> few pieces of hardware or else I would do that for you but I dont see 
> any
> issues that you would have with it.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, CJ Scaminaci wrote:
>
>> I'm not looking for anything internal nothing will fit. I have an old
>> PowerMac 9500 upgraded to a G4 450Mhz. Using MacOS 10.2.6 by means of
>> XPostFacto. So my FireWire compatibility is done through a PCI card
>> which means nothing internal. Plus I have no bays left :-). I am 
>> mainly
>> looking for a DVDRW drive to put on this machine that is external
>> firewire.
>>
>> CJ
>>
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