Quoth "Charlie Reyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 1/4/03 6:27 PM,
> Brian Steere wrote:
>
>> However you can always choose a slower speed than the max so a higher speed
>> burner is still useful if you find one at a good price
>>
>
> I mounted an internal 20/10/40 Yamaha IDE (they are cheaper now that 32x
> models are abundant) with an Iodata IDE to SCSI bridge attached behind the
> burner. Ripping well compiled 600 MB files could take 3 minutes. Toast
> Titanium 5.2 recognizes the drive as Iodata CDR2200E, except I can't boot
> from a system CD nor from Norton Utilities CD at startup.
Non-Apple internal CD drives are not usually bootable. If you have the
original CD-ROM drive that came with the 8500, installing it in the 3rd
drive bay (giving you 2 CD drives) would be a good idea. Not only could you
boot from it, but you could also make direct copies from one drive to
another.
-Ian Johnson
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