External DVD Burner Help!

Hello all. I just recently bought a Lite-On DX-20A4PU after researching it and finding out that it *supposedly* runs well with Macs. It hangs whenever I put *anything* in the drive though. System profiler recognizes it and all my programs can see it (DVD player, MTR, Toast, etc.), but anytime I try to actually run something the system just hangs. I tried to run it in Parallels under my XP image but it'll even hang there. Can someone please help me with this?

Have you tried connecting the drive to another machine to make sure it isn't defective?

I connected it to my iBook G4 and it does the same thing there. I wanted to try it with a Windows box but I don't think I have one that isn't a virtual machine.

Have never been great supporter of Lite On equipment, however go to this link and scrioll down to 'Lite On 20x20 DVD and Lightscribe' and see if that helps.

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/archives/jan07/012307.html

I'm going to try some things and report on it later. Hopefully I can get it to work properly. If not, I'm just going to have to return it and find something else.

Okay... after extension fiddling I finally got my XP image in Parallels to pseudo recognize it. The system reads it as an Atapi drive but all the features are supported (20x DVD-R/DL writing and such) so I've decided to leave well enough alone there. The thing is that now my system profiler in OSX only recognizes the drive as said Atapi and says that burning/reading is unsupported.

And the weirdest part about all this is that it only started working when I placed the drive on the optional stand and turned it on it's side (vertically). I'm not sure if this is just a case of an inferior product or a vendor selling something that isn't support as *being* supported. I guess the moral of the story is: Buyer Beware.