[jpoprock]

I know that any CD-R drive you buy must be compatible w/ the OS or iTunes to work. But I'm a bit confused on something. I went here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/compatibility/ and didn't see the drive that I wanted to buy listed under "expansion bay cd-r drives". I'm wanting to take the factory Sony out and put in the faster Teac W540e. But it's not listed. HOWEVER, I see it listed in the mechanism field for several Firewire drives. I don't understand what this means to me??

Bottom line is, if I buy a Teac W540e, will it work w/ my Mac, iTunes, etc? If so.. will it be able to burn at the 40x12x48 that it says it can? For PC users, this is one the best and fastest drives ever made...and i'm hoping it'll work for me. My buddy is buying a DVD burner for his PC and has offered to sell me his Teac for cheap.

Thanks!

Jason

[CIA]

I just bought a lite-on 48125W, (48X Burn, 12X CD-RW, 48X Read) which was used in the Lacie firewire burner. I simply replaced my internal IDE DVD-CD drive with the Lite-On model. Works like a charm in OS X.2.1, itunes and disc burner supported, and burns a full disc in like 2 mins..... nice change from my old Sony external SCSI 4X CD-R. Got it for $39 on ebay.

What machine are you on? I know the Lite-on mechanism won't work as well in OS 9, (the 48125W is not supported in iTunes 2)
iTunes 3 supports the Teac CD-W540E mech, so you should be able to just pull your existing drive and replace it with the Teac one, and off you go! This of course depends on the OS you are running. A lot of these drives only work in iTunes3/OSX.2 discburner. If you have toast 5.1.x burning software or above, you should be able to burn fine in 9 though. You just won't be able to burn in the finder, only in toast.

(Just to clarify, I bought the IDE OEM bare version of the drive, not version that comes in a firewire case. I just got the drive itself)

[jpoprock]

I'm running a G4 466. I use 9.2.2 and Jaguar. I have Toast Titanium and Jam. So, I think I'm good to go! Thanks!

Jason

[Corys]

never a bad idea to check the drive database here..

http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drived....drivedb.lasso