External Sony DVD-Burner

I have Sony's DRU-710A dual layer drive and want to use it with an external enclosure (USB 2.0) on my PowerBook running Tiger. Any ideas if this will work. Sony does not have any apple drivers.

I have an earlier model of that Sony drive in a firewire enclosure, and it works fine when using Toast Titanium.
(I'm not sure that I've ever tried to use the Finder to burn a DVD, as I rarely have enough spare disk space to do so and its so much slower.)

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    Message was edited by: John Lippincott

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    Message was edited by: Pismo 900
    I guess this other example would help paint the picture. Say you have a 15" PowerBook with the dual layer support. (Remember, not a double-sided disc which any G4 PowerBook can read as long as it has a SuperDrive). Since the 15" PowerBook--last model to roll off the line--supported burning and reading of DVD+R DL disc media, if your Sony burner only does DVD-R DL disc media, then your 15" PowerBook would not be able to read those discs burned by your Sony optical drive.
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