Newbie: HELP. Have a CD-RW/DVD-RW drive... Can I burn a DVD in iDVD 6?

I get an error that says I don't have a supported Superdrive...seems I have a CD-RW/DVD-RW. Is there anyway I can burn a DVD? Is there a way to use Toast? Thanks for your help. Totally new around here.

If your G4 has an internal S-Drive you'll be able to address burning DVD's in both iDVD and Toast. If not you can add an ext. device easily. Lacie makes some great external FW devices or you can pick up a Pioneer DL S-Drive for about $30 to $50 and then add it to a FW enclosure like this:
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In the above example I simply added a Pioneer 110U S-Drive to an external ADS FireWire Enclosure. Works great and requires no additional drivers.
Plus you can also daisy chain multiple enclosures in order to add additional hard drives / external devices.
Hope this helps.
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I know I used to have a case of them. Never used them but they are still around.
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