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internal IDE CD-R in external firewire case
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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i just stopped off at a local mac retailer to check out firewire burners and saw the lacie 8x4x32x going for CAN$580. so that got me thinking that i could probably find an IDE burner and an external firewire case for cheaper than that, but i wasn't sure that toast would be able to see the drive? has anyone tried doing something like this? if i was able to find an internal drive that was supported by toast, would it guarantee that i would be able to use the drive with in a case with a firewire bridge chip? (and if this is possible, could someone recommended a decent case/firewire interface?)
-r.
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Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Decatur, GA
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First, I believe you have to ensure that Toast supports the CDR you wish to install. They have this info on their site www.adaptec.com
Next, I recommend the ADS Pyro Case, go to www.xlr8yourmac.for details on setting it up. I put a 30 gig hard disk in on and it works great.
I'm planning on doing this for a CDRW also, so I'd be interested to hear your results.
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buchrob
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If you check out MacFixit and other forums, you will see that a lot of people are having problems with CDR FW drives that are assembled and sold by LaCie, Que, Sony, etc. as a finished product. Most of these difficulties are software related (usually getting the right extension set going and finding the exact version of Toast that will recognize your drive and do burns reliably).
Putting an IDE disk with some kind of generic drivers for the Firewire-IDE bridge is pretty straightfoward, but if you have problems configuring the CDR, you will probably have no one to turn to for help.
I've taken apart many Macs and built, repaired and configured many hard drives. This is one instance in which I would bite the bullet and spring for the finished product, and insist on a money-back guarantee.
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Join Date: Jan 2000
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doesn't Toast 4.1 address many of the incompatabilities?
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada
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I agree with GORDYmac. I just bought a Plextor 12x10x32 with a ADS Pyro Firewire Case following information from www.xlr8yourmac.com database.
Not have received it yet.
ciao
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Eastern Washington (St. John/Cheney)
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I did it. I bought a 12/8/32 Sony IDE CD-RW drive and put it in a used ADS Pyro case bought off eBay. Works like a charm with my G4/500 DP and Toast 4.1.1. Can't complain, especially about what I paid for it (around $260 total, much less than similar Firewire drives). It doesn't have the BurnProof technology the Plextor and Ricoh mechanisms do, but when I can burn a full CD in about 6 minutes, it doesn't matter that much.
Dave Corder
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