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CD-R drive for 8600?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Hi,
Do you know of a place where I can buy a CD-R or CD-RW (or Combo drive) that will work in a PPC 8600, and be compatible with iTunes?
I really have little clue where to start looking, and how to ensure that what I pick out would satisfy my criteria...
Can I just buy *any* iTunes compatible CD-R and throw it into the tower?
Your help is greatly appreciated!
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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If you use SCSI CDRWs OWC sell a old HP burner, Mac bootable but a real slowpoke 6x read and 2x write 
Any modern CDRW is IDE and then you need a IDE card as well. I have iTunes running on a 7600/200 in 10.1.5 as well as in a G3 upgraded 7500 running 10.2.8 so I do not expect itunes to be the problem. But perhaps the new CDRW drive will not support booting in a 8 year old computer...
Talk to the friendly people at OWC they can help you out 
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: London, Ontario
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Originally posted by DrBoar
I have iTunes running on a 7600/200 in 10.1.5...
You're one of the few people I've come across, who, like me, is running 10.1 on a 7600/200. How much RAM do you have?
To Besson3c--I have tried a couple of different CDRW drives in the machine and they both worked fine. The most recent was an LG 32x10x40x which works just fine and is very inexpensive. It requires, of course, an IDE card. It doesn't really make sense to use SCSI drives in the 7600/8600 machines. Buy a used IDE card (e.g. Sonnet) and then you have access to all the very inxexpensive IDE CD drives, hard drives, Zip drives etc.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally posted by DrBoar:
If you use SCSI CDRWs OWC sell a old HP burner, Mac bootable but a real slowpoke 6x read and 2x write
Any modern CDRW is IDE and then you need a IDE card as well. I have iTunes running on a 7600/200 in 10.1.5 as well as in a G3 upgraded 7500 running 10.2.8 so I do not expect itunes to be the problem. But perhaps the new CDRW drive will not support booting in a 8 year old computer...
Talk to the friendly people at OWC they can help you out
So the Hewlett-Packard 6020i is iTunes compatible? Please verify this (just want to make sure we are on the same page - this is the model that OWC sells).
I agree that going IDE would be much better, except we want to keep this on the cheap. Burning would be done only for a little while, for a specialized project (this is not for my Mac)
Thanks very much, you guys are great!
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