DVD SP 1.5 w/ Lacie burner

Hi there,
I am going to be using an external Lacie burner for the first time and was wondering if anyone can help me figure out whether or not the burner would work with DVD SP 1.5, which is not yet installed on my system since I'm expecting it to arrive in the next couple of days.
I hooked up the burner to my eMac (700MHz, NVIDIA GeForce2 MX, OS 10.2) and launched Apple System Profiler to check its specs:
Vendor ID: 53323
Unit SW version: 10483
Disc Burning: Not supported
Product name: Lacie 1394 DVD-R/RW+CD drive LUN 0
Product Identification: DVD-RW DVR-106D
Vendor Identification: PIONEER
Product Revision Level: 1.05
Does anyone know why "Disc Burning" is indicated as "Not Supported?" Also, it's not clear to me what the maximum write speeds are since the manual that came with the burner does not mention anything; however, given that this is 106D drive, I'm guessing that the maximum write speed for -/+R is 4x, isn't it?
Thank you.

Thank you guys for your replies.
Mikael, I had visited Lacie's Support webpage prior to posting my questions but unfortunately their DVD driver updates are intented for their latest models.
Mike, thank you for responding to my other post, too --been busy lately and had no time to check every board. Upgrading either my OS or DVDSP is not an option at the moment. Toast indeed seems to be the only solution for the moment.
I found out about a patch which is supposed to enable native burning but I'm not really a fan of third-party patches and plug-ins; they seem to create more problems than they can fix. I aslo learned that in Pionner's Support webpage there is a firmware update for 106D burners but I need a PC to download it; I'm not sure if that would work anyway.
I'll post back if I find a solution.
Any other ideas?

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