Disk Utility: How do I add a DVD burner?

I'm trying to burn a DVD by using Disk Utility. I'm having trouble with the DVD Pioneer drive in my G4. I'd like instead, to use my external firewire LaCie DVD burner.
How do I add this LaCie DVD burner to the drive options in the burn window of Disk Utilities?
Thanks

Take a look at http://www.patchburn.de/.
It worked for me on a older iMac G3 using a LaCie 300763U Firewire DVD-RW, with no internal DVD player/burner.
Also, this UserOpPatch (http://xvi.rpc1.org/playerpatch.html) allowed me to use DVD Player on my external DVD drive in a Tiger installation. Don't know if it'll work in Panther.
This mascosxhint did work:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040330171655882&query=DVD+Player

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