I salvaged the slow old external LaCie USB CD-RW drive off my wife's B&W G3 and have been using it for a while as an external CD-ROM drive on my Daystar Genesis PCI Mac Clone. I am using one of the Orange Micro PCI cards with USB and FW ports.
The B&W G3 has a recently acquired VST FireWire drive that is really fast and compatible with OSX.... which the LaCie drive definitely isn't.
Anyway, just for a laugh I put a blank CD into the LaCie drive tonight and fired up Toast 6. The Toast program saw the LaCie USB drive (which my System Profiler never has) and when I tried to drop files into the window it accepted them and allowed me to burn a CD. The CD works just fine in other Macs !
I have been porting stuff over to the G3 to burn CDs whenever I wanted to get something copied but now I won't have to. This is neat !!
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