External CD Burner...any way around it?

[mikeyp]

in a topic i started below i stated problems with CDRecord and Echelon's tutorial.

I was told that because my cd burner is external i won't be able to get it to communicate with my computer and get the numbers required to use CDRecord.

I wonder...

Are their any other ways i can sucessfully do the eschelon methood with a External drive?

thanks again you guys are great,

mike