According to Dave: >I've only had my TiBook 800 w/Combo drive for 6-7 months so this might have >been covered to death before, however I haven't been able to find the info >in web searches. I read somewhere that there used to be a workaround to the >fact that I can't burn a DVD to an external FW DVD burner (LaCie w/Pioneer >A03 drive) and that Apple made this patch "go away". Was this originally >some kind of software application, bios update or "hack"? I wanted to start >using iDVD to burn stuff but I don't have to resources to trash my Combo >drive and buy a Superdrive....especially when I already own the LaCie. > >Dave > >p.s. please forgive me if this question appears twice....I'm still a little >bit of a newbie Don't trash anything Dave, the software patch came from Other World Computing, I'll send it as an attachment, off-list ~flipper It was called DVD Enable X and was a 236 kb patch to right a 'wrong'