DVD Writer Upgrade Questions

I have a few questions about upgrading my DVD+-RW Drive that I cannot seem to find anywhere on this wonderful world wide web of ours.
What model are the superdrives currently going in G5's?
Does anyone know if the Pioneer DVR-R100 would be compatible with my pretty much stock G4 MDD?
I've read that the Pioneer DVR-610 is the same drive as the DVR-R100 but wihout all the software. Can anyone confirm or disconfirm this?
I also read conserns about the size of the tray on this drive, but I'm guessing the person was refering to the door, and not the actual tray. He said he had to cut the case of his PC to make it fit, and if the tray is any bigger than "standard" I'm guessing it would come out of the MDD doors.
Thanks a lot in advance!!!

see responses to your other post
In an MDD, you need to remove the drive tray faceplate of most new drives (one poster indicated that the new NEC drive did not need this, but Pioneer drives will). This OWC tech center page illustrates how-to.

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I am considering purchasing a new Mac desktop. I have, at present, a Liteon 851S ext CD/DVD write and a Maxtor 3200 USB ext hard drive. Will these work with a Mac desktop? My local Apple store could not answer my question.Happy New year to all.

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Yes the Mac can read that drive but you would need to Copy the data off of it to the Mac as apposed to Move, which implies Deleting them from the drive as they were transferred from the external to the Mac. Since the Mac can Not Write to NTFS drives it can't Delete anything as that is really a Write operation, IE Making changes to the NTFS formatted drive.
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My dvd writer is not working. 3000 C300

I have been not been able to get my dvd writer to write on either +/- dvd disc. Its says that the disc is not compatible with the drive or it will say that the drive is not recognized that I may need to update the drivers firmware. I have a 3000 C300 and I did upgrade it from Vista to Win7. Not sure if the dvd writer worked before this upgrade i never tried to burn a disc with the Vista. If anyone could help me that would be great. I really don't want to try and dismantle this computer and replace the writer all together although I really want to replace the processor on this system. I just is not something I really want to do so please if you can help me with this that would be great
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LG external dvd writer stopped working

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HP DVD Writer 840b Drivers

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DVD Writer not working.

I using Windows XPSP2 Professonal.
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HP DVD Writer 740b not recognizing DVDs

My 740b will not recognize DVDs. I have no problems with CDs but any DVD I put in the tray isn't recognized. I initially thought the problem was with the DVD+R I was using but I also have a Slimline s3132w with a DVD writer installed and it burned and read the same discs with no problems. I tried several commercal DVDs (movies) and when I try to play them I get a no disc in drive error. I also have a Lite-On DVD SOHD-16P9S DVD ROM on the same system and have no problems what so ever playing the same discs. I have tried replacing the ATA data cables post attempting the trouble shooting tips given on the support web page. I have upgraded the firmware hoping this might alleviate the problem with no success. As I stated before this problem is only with DVDs, the drive has no problems what so ever with CDs. I have a feeling the problem my be with my updating to Windows XP SP3. I had done so before but removed it because my Linksys Wireless Adapter(PCI) wouldn't function with it installed. That problem has been repaired and now this. The system the drive is installed in is as follows:
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OK chalk me up too to the list of users whose HP DVD Writer 740b cannot "see" blank DVD's and CD's.
Full marks to HP in that I am still smoothly running a Pavilion Media Centre PC EG211AA-ABG m7288a. I find the older plug compatablity useful and have beefed up RAM making it still a powerful "retro" media machine after all these years.....
However after a power failure caused a disk error that trashed my Windows XP and while it restored (as in full reset) like a trooper I took the opportunity to do a clean upgrade to Windows 7 (64bit) seeing as XP is no longer supported. And yes my HP DVD Writer 740b cannot detect blank DVD's and CD's although it can read those with content. It seems to be acting more like a CD ROM drive than a Read Write drive.
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