CD-RW upgrade options??

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plasmodium - 24 Jul 2003 11:58 GMT

I have a Lacie FW CD-RW drive (32*8*4), and am keen to speed it up......
according to Toast, the guts of it are a Matshita CD-RW CW-7586.

a few questions.....

can I go out, grab an IDE CD-RW drive, pop it in the FW case, fire and
forget, hoping Toast doesn't notice :)

is there a certain type of drive I'll need?

does OSX natively recognize certain drives? do I need third party
drivers??

any help would be appreciated, I don't anticipate any help at stores
selling bare IDE drives - ie PC stores --- or mac stores!

lee

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Jason - 24 Jul 2003 17:28 GMT

> I have a Lacie FW CD-RW drive (32*8*4), and am keen to speed it up......
> according to Toast, the guts of it are a Matshita CD-RW CW-7586.
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> is there a certain type of drive I'll need?

I bought a Sony CRX-210E1 for $95. Worked instantly in Toast 5.

> does OSX natively recognize certain drives? do I need third party
> drivers??

You may need a hacked driver... I did.

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

I downloaded the hacked driver for my Sony, and it works perfectly in the Finder.

> any help would be appreciated, I don't anticipate any help at stores
> selling bare IDE drives - ie PC stores --- or mac stores!

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CD-RW upgrade options??