[feldmeth]

I had to replace the combo drive in my iBook. The new drive, made by Sony, isn't recognized by the 10.2 system software and I can't burn CDs. Do I have to buy a 3rd party burning software package, such as Toast? This is a more expensive repair than I figured on. Thanks.

[Luca Rescigno]

Who replaced the drive? Did you just buy a new one and install it yourself? Because if you paid someone to fix it, you should make them use a drive that is OS X compatible.

Anyway, Toast should be compatible with basically everything. It's actually quite a nice program. You can create, mount, and burn disk images, make audio CDs and video DVDs, and just burn data. A bit expensive, but it sure has a lot of features.

[tooki]

Check www.xlr8yourmac.com's drive compatibility database. People have written plug-ins for many unsupported drive models.

tooki