Suggestions on external DVD burners for Mac

Last one I had was a Mad Dog multimedia burner which I paid about $140 about 6 months ago, the puppy had a freak accident and got in soapy water don't ask how.
What I'm trying to find is a burner in the $100 mark, any suggestions?

I strongly recommend http://www.macsales.com/ Firewire burners. They are the only ones that out of the box are compatible with iDVD, and Apple's other DVD burning applications. Others may need http://www.patchburn.de/ and specific firmware updates to be compatible. Some of these are outlined in the website:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
It wasn't until the Intel Macs, that USB became bootable for Mac OS X.

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I personally use multiple ADS Tech 1394 Pyro FW Enclosures with a Pioneer 110D S-Drive as well as a few ext. FW HD's and they all work well on mult. G4 systems (completely interchangeable via FW 400).
This link may help you to build your own S-Drive if you wish:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4022274#4022274
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http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384
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A good bootable multi-interface enclosure (empty) for an external CD/DVD drive will run about US$70.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MRSFW8U2RF/
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Based on your graphics card and the original drive, I expect your Mac Pro is an older model. All before 2009 accept an ATA INTERNAL drive such as this:
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I was wondering if there are any external dvd burners for a G4 with a USB port that is under 2.0. Also, it's a 400 firewire. Thanks in advance.

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If you're Mac profile is accurate, you will have problems with any new drive: OS9.1 will not natively support any new drive, and will not allow you to burn DVD's at all without third party software, such as Toast 5.2.3 (last version that can burn to DVD-/+R (no DL media), and run in OS9)
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=939694&start=0&tstart=0
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You will find internal optical drivers from OWC here. You will find external DVD burners from OWC here.
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Mitshko wrote:
Thank you OGELTHORPE and JoeyR,
Yes, I tried formatting in Ex FAT, MS DOS, and Mac Extended and did all kind of tests trying to copy from one computer to another. I have being reading in some forums also that some people have the same problem.
Formatting in FAT 32, I had to use fat32formatting.exe from this link http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm because the HD is of 500GB.
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