Writing discs with Firewire CD/DVD-R/W drive

I recently got an external CD/DVD-R/W drive. It works fine for playing CD's through Finder, but does not show up as an option for burning discs in iTunes or Toast. System Profiler says it's model sym13fw500 made by LSI Logic. There it identifies it as a CDROM unit, though the hardware is capable of writing CDs and DVDs. Is there a way to have OS X Tiger use this drive for writing data? I have never had to install a driver on a Mac OS, and Googling has proved fruitless thus far. Third-party software is fine with me too. Thanks for any help.

Hi a234085, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Only two possibilities I can see...
PatchBurn...
http://www.patchburn.de/
Possibly Dragon Burn...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19061

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Zak Ray wrote:
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Installing Tiger Without a DVD Drive
http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2005/05/thecats_mustachesinstalling.html
How To: Installing Tiger Using FireWire Target Disk Mode
http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/osx_odyssey_752_how_to_installing_tiger_using_firewire_target_diskmode/
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