Re: [SM] DVD Burner

[PLM]

On Saturday, February 7, 2004, at 12:04  AM, Will S wrote:

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 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
Will, Your probably right here, the Liteon's may need a "firmware" 
punch from a PC which I can't provide...I'd prefer "out of the box",

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.
Pioneer in my firewire it is!  although the LiteOn's which occupy my 2 
machines are sweet and were cheap. Thanks to all,  Phillip

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