Drive Mechanism Replacement

I have a Pioneer DVR-S706 ext USB+FW DVD burner, and I want to replace the 3-yr old 8x Pioneer drive mechanism in the housing with a Samsung SH-S182M 18x dual-layer, lightscribe internal drive. Would this work with Mac OS X, that is, will the Samsung drive and lightscribe features show up properly in System Profiler and Toast 8? Thanks!

bbstenor Aug 20, 2007

Thanks for the response, but that's not exactly what I was asking. Mac OS X will not need drivers to work with this or almost any DVD writer. I am concerned that the OS might not "see" the new drive for what it is - an 18x, dual-layer, lightscribe drive, and still see it as a Pioneer 8x single-layer writer. That is, does the identification of the external drive take place at the drive mechanism level or at the IDE/ATAPI interface level? I know I'll have to download Mac lightscribe drivers to enable that feature, so that's not a big concern.

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To figure this out you must look and see if Samsung offers mac osx compatible drivers for this unit. Ther in lies your answer.

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