[G4] FireWire CDRW/DVDRW

[Sean]

They have a list of supported drives on the Toast (is is still adaptec?) 
site. The Pioneer's work. I have one that was an offbrand but it was an 
pioneer OEM drive and havent had any issues. I think Toast supports +RW 
too. 


On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, CJ Scaminaci wrote:

> 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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