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Buying an IDE burner- for the iMac?

Posted by Cliff on from the iBurner dept.

danboid asks: "I'm going to buy an 'internal' IDE burner for my iMac (revision A- I have to open it up and lead an IDE cable out and buy a power supply for it though!) so I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations or could tell me what to look out for or avoid. I will probably be burning under Linux but I'd like to get a burning program for Mac OS X- has anybody had any experience with such a setup?"

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  1. Check xlr8yourmac.com... by catseye · · Score: 4, Informative
    Probably the best reference on the 'net for hacking your Mac is xlr8yourmac.com. For your little project, you'll probably want to check out the drive compatibility database. Do a search for "CDRW", "IDE" and "iMac" as computer type -- when I tried it, I got 18 hits from other people who had done something similar to you.

    Of course, you didn't indicate whether you have one of the original iMacs or a slot-loading model, but it should be possible in either case.

    Good luck!

    -A.

    --
    What did the walrus say to the penguin? "No soap, radio."
  2. Re:Extrenal by ivan256 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I disagree. USB burners suck big time. If he doesn't care about asthetics, the IDE burner is the way to go. If he doesn't care about MacOS compatability, almost any IDE burner will work. The IDE burner support in linux is excelent. With third party drivers he should also be able to get almost any IDE burner to work in MacOS 9.x. I haven't tried it in MacOS X yet...

    USB is only 12Mbit. While that's plenty for lots of things, it's not good for data storage. He'll likely only get 1.4MB/sec MAX, and with that upper limit, it's only safe to burn at 4x or slower. Lame.

  3. Re:iMac -- Firewire by beerits · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your right a Rev A iMac doesn't have firewire out of the box but it is an option with this card