Now that the dishes have been washed after our "brunch," I decided to hook up this HP CD-Writer Plus to the SiniStarMax and see if it would work. After some fumbling around with the jumper on the HP device, the StarMax finally booted up when the jumper was placed in "MAS" ("master," or preferably "primary" today). Apple System Profiler detected it as a LG CED-8083B CD-RW drive and a burned disc successfully mounted and opened in Mac OS 8.6. I should test and see if it loads in BeOS as well. Once I find an IDE cable with an extra connection, I'll connect both optical drives to the logic board which will be cool for creating CD images and burning them. #MARCHintosh