Which DVD drive for PowerMac G4 AGP

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May 2, 2005 - 12:45pm
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louis
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Which DVD drive for PowerMac G4 AGP

Hi all!
I need to replace the DVD drive in my PowerMac G4 AGP 400 MHz. Would this

    DVD ± RW 8.5GB PIONEER DVR-109BK Black-OEM
be compatible and allow the PM to boot under Tiger without trouble? Thanx for your advice in this matter?
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May 2, 2005 - 2:35pm
Dr. Webster
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Search for it on XLR8YourMac

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

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May 4, 2005 - 2:06am
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It works!

I bought the DVD ± RW 8.5GB PIONEER DVR-109BK Black-OEM drive yesterday! And it works great Wink Does anyone have an idea how to flash this drive? I have looked around and it seems I need a PC to do this for this drive!

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May 5, 2005 - 12:30am
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The drive should work fine as

The drive should work fine as a standard read drive. But for any ability to write you will need to use PacthBurn. I have a Pioneer DVR-108 and LiteOn 52x52x36x16 Combo drive with my g4 here, both work great with patch burn.

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May 6, 2005 - 6:00am
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Patchburn 4

Hi yes well I used Patchburn 4 under Tiger and works fine! Without Patchburn it worked fine with Disk utility and Toast 6 but not in the finder and iTunes...
Thanx for your advices Wink

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