Can I ask where we are up to re: this?

I'm actually on Sol 11, SB1000, and I'd like to do some dvd/cd writing.
The only kit I have knocking about is a Formac firewire enc with a
Pioneer 106 in it. I also have a NEC 1300(?) DVD writer I could leech too.

I successfully attached a firewire external disk but it seems a bit
clunky and indeed got 'cannot stat' messages and the volume
disappearing......

I'm a bit wary of attaching it tho, cos when I did that with the disk
the blade rebooted.....

I usually use a Mac G5 for my DVD writing, but I find it seems to suffer
from a PC-like problems in that if it's been up a bit, with a restart, I
get an illegal-sense or sth and a new coaster. I know it's going to do
it too, by the responsiveness of the system! So I feel I have to reboot
it before writing on it. Sunblade always feels responsive tho!

Cheers!

Steve