I know the USB Spressa has been talked about a lot on this forum, but never in conjuction with the cube. So I have had the Spressa CDRW USB work perfectly with an older iMac and on a G4 450 AGP both using OS 9.0.4. Now I have a Cube, running OS 9.0.4 and Toast says, it can't recognize it. I have tried it through a USB hub, tried with out one, tried with every version of Toast all the way up to the most recent one...all with no luck. So I know a lot of you will say I have a G4 this and that and it works fine or an iMac and it has no problems...and I have experinced that too, I am just interested in the Cube. Thanks for your help.