I second the above info as good to get you headed in the right direction. Since you already have the Acard 133 ATA I strongly recommend the Pioneer IDE line. A05, 06, 07 (also known as 105,106.107) are seen as Apple super drive when used internally.So everything works out of the box in OSX and OS 9.x . iTunes, iDVD , Apple system profiler all see as Apple Super Drive. They are pretty much the same drive but the A05/105 is 4x and the A06/106 adds DVD + and the A07/107 boosts the speed to DVD 8x.. A07/107 may need some extra files for Jaguar but works out of the box with Panther.From: PLM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 21:49:42 -0500 On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 09:35 PM, Paul Corsa wrote:
The older list postings would be your best bet for info on an internal unit. Remember that the Mac 8500, 8600,9500 and 9600 are all similar when searching for units that have worked. At best you would want to use an ATA133 upgrade PCI unit for # of choices, as even with an upgrade to 160 SCSI via PCI card I doubt you'll find many DVD units made for SCSI. The newer the burners are, the faster they'll be and the less campatible they'll be with the slow buss speed of the S900 era machines, IMHO. Paul
Thanks Paul, this is what I needed... I have an Acard 133 in the target machine, a LiteOn DVD-ROM and a second drive a LiteOn CD-RW I'm looking at "LiteOn"
again here and "Pioneer" as choices, but I may put the "Drive" in a spare firewire enclosure. not sure yet... my concern is will OSX/OS9 "see" it. Phillip
I'm still using an older Acard ATA 66 card and while the Pioneer A05 works with it, burning doesn't. So i've put it in a Firewire box. It did require some extra software for Apple DVD player to work in OS 9 & Jaguar and also for the external use. Everything but iDVD works great as it doesn't work with external drives. Panther everything works with no extra messing around except iDVD. iDVD now since Panther opens and lets you encode files for burning but you have to use Toast to burn them with external drive.
My local Fry's has the A07 on sale for $117.00 this weekend so price isn't too bad if you shop around.
I've also heard good things about the LiteOn's but some work better with Mac OS then others and I don't know much about them. Will S
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