What external burners are compatible with mac

I have an io magic idvd16DDBB external dvd burner.
It works some of the time, but sometimes it just won't recognize the disk. I have tried patch & burn, but it does not seem to cut it. Does anyone know why this is such a problem?
Also does anyone know a good place where I can find listings of drives/devices that work on mac.
I called appple care, and they don't have much to offer.
This brings up the question, why does apple not have a nice user friendly lists on their site that give information on third party hardware that works with the mac. To me there is no excuse for this, and as much as I like apple, I think they need to get their act togethor!

XLR8yourmac.com has a very large user-supported database.
Check it out. There is a ton of stuff there and you can search by many different variables.

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