great firewire cd-rws.

[boi]

what's a really good one? i'm talking compatibility here. ever since i bought that crappy lacie 4x2x24 (or whatever) Mitsumi 4802 usb burner back when i got my g4 450 i've been ultra paranoid about buying burners that work. this burner never worked with anything, ever. i got it to work with windows once, and 9.x occasionally, and X sees the burner, tells me what it is, but refuses to use it.
anyway, i digress... i'm buying a new one now. firewire. 12x +. i want to be able to stick the plug in the little hole and do nothing else to get it to work. i'm running 10.1.2 if that matters... has anyone had great experience with any particular burner?

thanks!

Oo boi ... or astro boi? o.

[ERICBRIAN2002]

YAMAHA BURNERS ARE THE BEST MINE IS 16X10X4 FIREWIRE. WITH 8MB SO ITS ERROR PROOF. IT COST ME 300 BUT NOW THERE AT 200-250. IT WORKS GREAT WITH MY IMAC WITH OSX.1 EMAIL ME IF YOU HAVE MORE QUESTION AT ERIC.BRIAN2@VERIZON.NET

[hugheba]

I actually went and bought one of those firewire to IDE cases that allow you to put and an external IDE cd/rw/dvd/hd or whatever in it and connect to your mac through firewire.

I have several cdrw drives around that were bought to work in my Windoze PCs every single one I hooked up and connected to my iMac 400 DV OS X recognized it and burned beautifully.

No where on the box or manuals of these drive say they work with Macintosh but once connected they were recognized and worked great with no drivers at all.

The best thing is that building your own external devices is soo much cheaper. The ADS external firewire/IDE case I bought was about $99 and bought a 40gig Maxtor HD for around $75.

Internal drives are usually pretty cheaper than external so you can save a little there and create your own external.

The cdrw drives I tried in the adapter were:
Philips PCRW 804
HP 9710

I tend to try and buy a more reputable name drive if you're going to try this yourself, but since the succes of this first test, I'm going to build all of my external drives...

Hope this info helps!

-B

[iKevin]

I too made one....took a Yamaha 2100e 16x10x40 cdrw and a ADS Pyro firewire enclosure and put them together. It even works out of iTunes and in Toast without any problems at all....plus it only cost about 180 to make.

[edX]

I would strongly recommend that you do NOT buy from QPS

personally I love my QPS and have had no problems with it using toast titanium which i strongly recommend. toast for osx is still beta and not fully functional but it does 90% of what i want it to do now. Toast provides all the proper updates for the que!fire series. I don't think you can use toast and disc burner interchangebly though. Toast extensions conflict with apples. There is a lot more about this issue on roxio's web site. The qps drives are big and take up a lot of disk space but their stablility in osx/9.2.1 is great. You might want to go to roxio's site and join one of their discussion groups and ask this same question there. Lots of full blown power burner geeks there!!

[efoivx]

I just bought the QPS Que!Fire 24x10x40 cdrw

The guy at compusa (idiot as usual) said

"You using this with a PC?"
we said no with a mac.
he said "Oh, then you don't want this one"
we said why?
he said "it' not compatible many people are having trouble with it"
we said but it says for Mac/PC and has a picture of a mac right on the front
he wanted to sell us a slower one that cost more.
we said we'll take the Q drive...

brought it home, pluged it in power and then the firewire.
NO SOFTWARE TO INSTALL! NOTHING TO SETUP OR CONFIGURE!
poped in a blank and both Toast and Apples built in CD burn saw it and worked out of the box first try with no troubles at all what so ever. I burn a 700 meg CD in 3 minutes.

My question is what did the people that couldnt get it to work do? use it as a football first? come on I pluged it in and put in a cd thats all!


I highly recomend this drive it comes in a nice carrying case too it's only $230.00

cheers

[efoivx]

Jesus! relax I was't posting in response to your post... I merely stated what my outcome was... I'm sorry your having problems but you don't need to take them out on me because I'm not.

as for the customer support I have not needed it yet and hope I will not need to. but as of now the drive works great.

The original question was information about firewire cdrws.... I have sent my information as requested.

I also had some scsi drives lacie and another I cant recall that don't work at all now with OS 10 no support from apple on those but I got over it and bought a new firewire drive....

I also have a printer that doesn't work an epson 800 no support from apple or epson so I am screwed for $300.00 on that pourchase but again I will just get a new one...

Again I'm sorry you have trouble but all I was offering was my findings on my drive.

Cheers
Be Happy
Eddie

[WoLF]

Haha funny compusa people. they are Dumbasses.
Yeh I just looked and the 24x firewire Que!Fire burners are at $199 right now

Time to upgrade my 12x Que!Fire