big poppa i have burner question....

i can get a Yamaha CRW8424EZ for a nice
price is this the one you use also does it work
well with dj also i was able to burn a boot disk
using dj with my current burner a ricoh 7040a
but still got a field error when trying to burn
a .cdi file is there a way to convert cdi back to
non self booting and burn them and just use my boot disk thanks for any help your a godsend
in this fourm for newbies like me!