Any good suggestions on an External DVD-RW? I would prefer Firewire capability (so I don't have to buy a USB hub). The last time I checked 4 speed was the fastest. I will mainly use it on my PC, but Mac compatibility would be helpful (although I assume all firewire burners are cross platform).

Click to expand.Right, but which dual 1.25 GHz model do you have, and in particular does it have Firewire 800? Looking in MacTracker, I count three separate dual 1.25 models: the original top-end 'Mirrored Drive Doors' (August 2002 to January 2003), the midrange 'FW800' (January 2003 to June 2003) and the top-end 'Mirrored Drive Doors 2003' (June 2003 to June 2004). The first and third of these (MDD and MDD 2003) do not have Firewire 800 and can boot Mac OS 9. The second one (FW800) has Firewire 800 and can not boot Mac OS 9. The last generation of the PowerMac G4 (MDD 2003, released in parallel with the PowerMac G5) was an effective downgrade from the previous generation (FW800) because the processor speeds were lower and it dropped Firewire 800, Airport Extreme and Bluetooth support. Apple effectively took the first generation MDD model and re-released it with some minor updates.

The only differences I can spot between the dual 1.25 GHz MDD 2002 and MDD 2003 models are: the older one has a Superdrive and the newer one has a combo drive; the hard drive got bigger; the CPU is a later revision. (Some of these differences might have been glossed over with build-to-order options anyway.) The fastest PowerMac G4 was the dual 1.42 GHz 'FW800' model. That generation also included single 1.0 and dual 1.25 models. Click to expand.Where?

I've just been all over the Plextor web site and have found nothing of the sort. Some drives only mention Windows but that is not the same thing. Their official statement is here: Scroll to the bottom for Mac compatibility. A summary is: - Everything is supported at least as a CD-ROM, if no software is installed - Your Mac needs to have the correct kind of interface (SCSI, ATAPI, USB, etc.) - Macs with USB 1.1 ports will only support USB 1.1 speeds unless a higher speed interface card is installed. - Mac OS 9.1 is minimum, 9.2.2 or later is recommended - OS X 10.0 is needed for USB 2.0 speeds - New model USB drives may not be auto-detected without software, and you should contact their tech support group if you have such a drive. - The bundled Toast Lite app (for those drives that come with Mac software) required Mac OS 9.2.2 or later. Click to expand.OK, there still will be a problem with their SCSI drives, since they don't make drivers/extensions for Mac OS, but this now seems can be solved by using the new Intech SpeedTools X / CDSpeedTools 3.4.x for OS 9.x - About half a year back I had a Plexwriter 48T SCSI drive that I wanted to use in my old PM 9600, where the orig.

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Neither my Intech CDSpeedTools 3.3 or FWB CDRomToolkit 3.5.2 would recognize it. - I searched the Plextor web for drivers, but couldn't find anything - as they also now write that 3rd party tools might be necessary. It was then I found the information that their drives were not supported by Apple computers. Click to expand.OK.

I didn't realize you're using OS 9. Yes, driver support for burners has always been spotty in the OS 9 world. OS X seems to have generic support, as long as you have working SCSI drivers, but this is not the case in OS's 6-9. I've never used a Plextor on OS 9, but I have used generic NEC and Matsushita CD-ROM drives with OS 8.1 on my Quadra 840av. When I bought the drives (from the now-defunct APS Technology), they included a disc called 'APS PowerTools CD' which is the set of drivers and system extensions CharisMac's Discribe product (but without the disc burning software.) I used that for a while. Then I found a way to hack Apple's CD ROM driver to have it recognize my drive, and I ended up using that instead.