[rich82fox]

hi

Will any dvd drive work in a powermac g3 (blue&white)

or does it have to be an Apple one?

I want to be able to boot from OSX CD

rich

[Waragainstsleep]

Any Apple branded DVD drive will work. Any non-apple one is potentially a gamble. They will all read DVDs under OS X, but not all are necessarily bootable.
You should be ok with a Sony or Pioneer drive, but again, no guarantee unless its Apple branded.

If you go for a burner, any of the Pioneer DVR-1XX drives should be ok.

[angelmb]

I had replaced the Apple cd-drive inside my B&W G3 with a DVD combo drive; System Profiler & Toast list it as HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B, which is either a LG or a Hitachi. Boots Mac OS X Tiger and even Mac OS 9.2.1

[512ke]

Im sure there are others but here is one I know works. Its in my B&W G3 right now. I used it to up to Tiger from a retail dvd. About $35 at Newegg.com
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-118L
An LG I had previously worked ok to read and write but wouldnt boot a mac or pc either one its now in an external

[angelmb]

I would choose a Pioneer before anything else.