[MacDV] Re: External FW Cases for DVD burner

[Bart Dame]

On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 01:33  AM, Randy Clark wrote:

>Still crossing my fingers on getting the Cendyne internal DVD burner
>(Pioneer DVR-105 model)... it's on backorder right now.
>

And, on 1/11/03 9:41 AM, Thubten Kunga at Kunga at FutureMedia.org wrote:

>  BTW did you read my posts about the
>internal/external 105 hack so you can run iDVD3? You won't need a case
>if you want to run it that way.
>


So, after lurking a while, I write:

Hi guys! I'm in the same boat as Randy. Almost. I got a raincheck 
from Office Max on the CeleDyne/ Pioneer drive. Given the confusion 
that I've read about here, I'm not sure if it will be the 104 or the 
105, though I spec'd the 105. Nor am I certain that it will arrive 
before the CeleDyne rebate offer runs out. Nor do I know if Office 
Max will honor their own now expired instant rebate, although I 
assume that that's what the raincheck is for.

If, somehow through all these uncertainties, a reasonably priced 
Pioneer 105  arrives for me, I will also be putting it into an 
external firewire case. I am looking at the Pyro. That part seems 
pretty straightforward to me and, yes, <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com> 
is an excellent resource. I read it thoroughly every time I begin to 
covet more storage. (Seems to be about every 6 to 9 months!)

I have a TiBook 500 with an external Western Digital 120 GB FireWire 
HD. I doubt the Pioneer drive will easily swap into the space 
currently occupied  by the the slot-loading DVD drive ;0, So if some 
work-around exists to use iDVD with an external drive setup, I'd 
appreciate any advice I can get.

TIA,
Bart
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