Portable dvd writer for IMac

Hi,
I am fairly new to the mac world of things, and my current imac is the built in cd-rw however I want to use a portable firewire dvd-writer. The difficulties I have is that there seems to be only one model list and I want to know if most will work? (e.g. are they plug and play) the only application I want to use it with is idvd.
any help would be appreciated and suggested model that you know work?
thanks
jamie

Hi and thanks for taking the time to reply.
Nope with a cd in or out this drive is just not recognised which is a real shame.
Looked at various solutions and believe it may be a power issue?
The drive powers up ok but is just not showing on the system profiler.
Any ideas or halo would be most welcome
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