DVD Writer PIONEER 115BB - Compatibility

Looking to install a DVD burner into my Mac.
A friend of mine is dumping an old PC which has a Pioneer DVD ROM 115BB in it.
I know the Pioneer 106 and the 111 runs in the mac
Will the Pioneer DVD ROM 115BB run on my machine please?
If so, what software is needed to run it please?
Thanks you guys!!
G4 Silver Mac OS X (10.3) Dual OS9 & OSX

Hi
I think the main difference is the read/write speeds.
The 106 writes CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVD-Rs, DVD-RWs, DVD+Rs and DVD+RWs at 16x, 10x, 4x, 2x, 4x and 2.4x respectively.
The 111 writes them at 40x, 32x, 16x, 6x, 16x and 8x respectively. It also supports dual layer discs, DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL, both at 8x.
I've installed a 111D under OS X 10.4/Tiger and it works out of the box with no additional software needed.
Under earlier versions of OS X such as 10.3 though, which don't support such a wide range of third party drives, you may need Patch Burn in order for the drive to be recognised by the iApps (iTunes, iDVD etc):
http://www.patchburn.de/

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