G4 and Memorex DVD recorder

Greetings. I purchased a Memorex dual+/-format DVD recorder Double Layer, CD/RW internal drive to put into a mac. It was offered by outpost/fry's.com as a Mac compatible device. I installed the drive and it reads CD's and DVD's just fine. When I put in a blank CD/RW disc I get a message "Drive not supported". It is supposed to be able to burn both DVD and CD's. I contacted Memorex and they said that they do not support their product in a mac. Any ideas? I purchased the drive so that I could upgrade the mac to Tiger.

This is actually the G5 forum, but I think I can still offer some advice.
Download Patchburn from http://www.patchburn.de
Patchburn will create and install a profile for your drive so that it appears as "supported" to the system.
If understand correctly, you are going to install Tiger and want to make sure that this drive will work under Tiger. Or are you having issues simply installing Tiger from this drive?
In any event, you may have to run Patchburn again once you have Tiger installed. I imagine that without it, Tiger's System Profiler will still list this drive as "Unsupported".

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