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External FireWire Enclosure
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Mar 10, 2004, 04:41 PM
 
Does anyone have any experience with using an enclosure with a DVD-ROM or
CD-RW Drive? Will DVD Player, iTunes see the drive as long as the drive is supported by OSX?
     
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Mar 11, 2004, 02:13 AM
 
Yes.

However, when you install OS X for the first time, it will not install the DVD Player application unless you have a DVD drive installed INTERNALLY in the machine. I installed OS X from an external DVD-ROM drive when I got my PowerMac (it had an internal CD-RW that it wasn't seeing so I had to go for the external solution), and DVD Player.app wasn't there. I got a friend to send me the application and it worked fine. It should also work if you use a utility called Pacifist to extract DVD Player.app from the OS X install CD.

Of course, if you already have a Mac with DVD Player installed, you don't have anything to worry about.

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