Using an old mac mini as an external dvd drive

I was thinking of buying one of the new mac minis.
I have an older one from 2006 (with OS X Tiger 10.4.11 and 512Mb of RAM which means it's not powerful enough for any OS after Leopard) and I was wondering if it would be possible to use that machine as the external superdrive instead of forking out for a new apple superdrive?
I think that there could be some issue with the speed of the USB connection, judging from some questions I've read on the apple website (apple have pumped up the wattage of the connection on their external superdrive) but does that mean that firewire would be ok to connect them up?
Thanks for any help
John

rcmjohn wrote:
I was wondering if it would be possible to use that machine as the external superdrive instead of forking out for a new apple superdrive?
yes.
booting the the Tiger Mini into target disk mode and use its ODD drive on the other Mac.
it may be necessary to pop in the optical media before booting the Mini into TDM.

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