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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Hello, I want to use an external cd rom drive with my G4. I have the drive, I just need a firewire enclosure. I've heard about the one CompUSA sells, it's $100.
Are there any alternatives?
has anyone tried any with OSX 10.1 yet?
Thanks for any information.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: sunny southern california
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check to see if it is OSX compatible.
go the the manufacturers webpage to see if it will work.
otherwise there are a ton out there for about the same price that work with macs.
check www.macsales.com as one example. there are plenty of others too. clubmac.com, macmall.com, etc. etc.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Heath Springs, SC
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ADS Pyro case is at CompUSA for $100. It works fine under OS X with a CD burner installed. If you need a hard drive case only, they one frow owcomputing.com would get you the Oxford 911 chip for faster performance.
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<Rev. Irreverence>
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Originally posted by iamnotmad:
<STRONG>Hello, I want to use an external cd rom drive with my G4. I have the drive, I just need a firewire enclosure. I've heard about the one CompUSA sells, it's $100.
has anyone tried any with OSX 10.1 yet?
I actually bought two of the Pyro kits at CompUSA this weekend and put a 75GB IBM drive in each. As soon as they spun up I plugged them into the back of my Pismo PB running 10.1 and they were immediately recognised as unformatted and I was asked whether or not I wanted to have Disk Utility launched for me and the drives initialized. I click OK, Drive Utility did it's work in under a minute and both drives showed up on my desktop.
No need to use any of the supplied software that came with the drives.
This whole exercise was to rescue data from the drives - my only wish was that these were bus-powered cases, but as I understand it only 2.5" IDE laptop drives can be made into bus-powered drives.
All in all, for $99 they made my drives portable and far more useful.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
The Rev.
Thanks for any information.</STRONG>
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Feb 2001
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I got the Pyro case and QUE 24/10/40 CD-RW at CompUSA and was pleasantly surprised when it worked better in OS X than OS 9.2.1. Straight out of the box it was supported by iTunes, DiscBurner and Toast in OS X.
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Does anyone know if this would work with a DVD-ROM? I mean, putting a internal DVD-ROM into the firewire case. 
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<Jay>
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Check xlr8yourmac.com and check the compatibility. Not all DVD-ROM drives will work.
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