Qill my mac accept any IDE/ATAPI interface DVD writer?

Hello,
I'm currently seeking to upgrade my Quicksilver's 1x Superdrive to a newer, faster DVD writer. I was looking at a Lightscribe 20x DVD writer to transform the painfully slow burning sessions into quicker put-on-DVD archival making.
+(RAW files take a lot of place on a HDD and slow burning sessions are now the weakest link in my workflow — a new DVD burner is a must until I change my whole computer somewhere in the following year...)+
Now since most online retailers provide only minimum information about their products, you generally know which versions of Windows will support the drive, but when it comes to Mac OS X... usually, there's nothing to confirm that the drive will work on a Mac or not!
Now the question is: will any IDE/ATAPI interface DVD burner fit in my G4 Quicksilver 2002 dual 1.0 GHz or do I need to look for a drive that specifically supports OS X? (Like an external USB / Firewire drive, for instance).
Any feedback on that would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

There is a database that holds users' experiences installing third-party drives in various Macs. If you have a drive or two in mind, you can enter the specific drive and read the reports:
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso

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I've heard a lot of different opinions on the deal with the connection of two drives per IDE 40 pin cable (Master/Slave) with the IDE/ATAPI interface. According to one school of thought only one device on the cable can accessed at any one time (although at lightning fast speeds so it seems both are in use).
Another school of thought says both run concurrently but only the Master device runs at premium bandwidth, or that when both are in use they degrade the performance of each other (which could be bad if CD-burning).
The most recent view I've heard, which I suspect is true, is that both devices on a cable run concurrently without bandwidth loss but that the limiting factor is the speed of the slowest device, ie if you have a UDMA 100 drive (Mode 5) and a UDMA 133 drive (Mode 6), as I do, on the same cable the higher speed drive is brought down to the slower speed drive's level, in effect (in this case) two UDMA 100 drives. The IDE controller on the motherboard however has no problem handling the extra data bandwidths. This view seems to hold water because I checked the DMA settings during bootup (notes a UDMA 100 Mode 5 and a UDMA 133 Mode 6 device) but after boot lists both as Mode 5.
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Whilst on the topic of hard drives does anyone know if it is (ultimately) detrimental to partition hard drives with more than one partition, esp. if you make alot of littler ones? I have heard that anything other than one big partition (eg on a x Gb drive an x Gb size partition) will "wear out the tracks". This argument ties into another question about low level formats and whether we can really do low level formats with those utilities on manufacturer's web sites or if its just another type of high level format only better or fancier. Isn't it true that due to modern drives being so incredibly high tech they can only be low level formatted once, and only then with the advanced gear they have at the factory (lasers? Sealed vacuum chambers? - all wild guesses here).
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Both run at the same time but with a 40pin wire IDE cable there is more interference as both signals have to share the same wire. Thats why they made 80 wire IDE cables.
You can have two devices on the same cable, one running 100dma and one running at 33dma. But that causes a lot of interference as one device is running on a faster transfer rate.
Thats why it is recommended you have cd drives and hard drives on different cables.
And hard drives, the more partitions you have the slower it becomes.
The tracks are magnetised and de-magnetised so over time they do wear away.
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Some programs call a full write zero a low level format but it not really.
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