I see that quite a few vendors are now producing firewire CD-RW drives... sony, mactell (now distributed by someone else), Que, others. Does anyone have any buying advice? I am l…

Too bad none of them are actually shipping.. wait the sony one is.. but that's way too expensive and people like MAlan are having MUCHO difficulties with their lousy support. Mike

So maybe a SCSI card (already have one) and a SCSI drive are what's best for right now. -jb

Ok, I want a nice Firewire CD-R(W) for my B&W G3 and my sister's new grape iMac DV. I know there are several choices out there on the market: Sony Spressa (which people seem to…

The mactell firepower cd-rw IS shipping and a friend just got one. Its got no problems and i have a few new cd's because of it

Firewire is great, I've been trying out some Hard Drives and the ability to hot swap them is great. But I can warn you of this...attempting to make a cd off of a firewire HD to a …

FireWire CD-RW's? Still tricky... Everybody claims to have it, but nobody is realy shipping. And those who are shipping are not reliable or not so fast as they should be. I've rece…

Well I intend to buy a Yamaha 6416-based SCSI CD-RW drive from APS (the 6x4x16), and a Formac ProRAID I UW SCSI card for my blue and white G3. Even with the SCSI card, this comes o…

Unfortunately, I believe that all the current systems like DirecPC which uses the same kind of satellite system as your friends Sony only support PCs. DirecPC 2.0 does have a USB …

Unfortunately, I believe that all the current systems like DirecPC which uses the same kind of satellite system as your friends Sony only support PCs. DirecPC 2.0 does have a USB …

This is a stretch, but... Is there any way to hook up a satellite dish (in this example, a Sony Mini-dish) as a modem connection? I'm asking for a friend who lives in a fairly rur…

Has anyone purchased the USB Wacom Graphire yet? It came out on 10/31. I was wondering if there are any compatibilty issues with the new iMac models. $99 is not bad at all for a gr…

My school has iMacs and that same tablet (the art dep. just got it last week) i used it and there was no problems whatsoever and it was quite impressive.

I bought one just the other day, I like it a lot. However, the current driver (v4.40) does not seem to work with OS9, they have a beta (v4.50) posted on their web site, which work…

Another question about Firewire vs USB CDR drives: As I understand it, USB drives have problems writing audio CDs at anything but 2x speed. Is this problem addressed in a Firewire …

hi, the thing that limits usb burners is the 12 megabit speed of usb. since firewire (ieee 1394) is 400 megabit, it's not a problem. you can record just as fast as an ide or scsi b…

I have a USB CD-RW and can burn audio CD's at 4x. It's a Freecom Traveller CD-RW, connected to an iMac DV SE, MacOS 8.6 and Toast 3.8.1 Freecom announced an upgrade to FireWire fo…

Hello, I have an old SCSI Zip drive, which I originally used with my old Quadra 660AV. I got a G3 All-In-One (AIO) last December, and have been using the Zip with it. As you may kn…

Allow me to answer myself. No. Asside from the fact that internal drives have to be sealed, which the de-cased Zip is not (obvious in 20/20 hindsight: i forgot about that rather la…

do you like the QUE! drive? i've been considering many usb cd-rw's for my lime wonder, but i think i've settled on the QUE!. I would apprieciate any thoughts, good and bad that you…

hi, the que is okay for my needs, mainly backing up mac files/volumes and some mix cds. as long as you have vm off, nothing else going on, and don't mind the time (the usb bottlene…

yeah! that does help, i think i'll buy one when i build up the scratch.

Ster: actually, the idea of ripping a zip drive from the blue shell is not as farfetched as you might think, despite the window. As you may have seen the external jaz drives have a…

actually, i got the drive case open quite easily. there are three little plastic tabs that you have to pry open, that's it. to clarify a bit, the scsi connector is, of course, exte…

Hi, Are USB CD-R drives as good as SCSI CD-R drives? Can you really cut a CD at the 4X speed? Thanks, Amin