I-O Data soon will ship the FireWire version of the famous Ricoh MP9120A. The drive supports 12x writing, 10x re-writing, 32x reading, 8x DVD-Rom reading and the anti-coaster technology "JustLink". The price would be around 54,800 Yen ($494.994 US) and will work under Windows 9x, 2k and MacOS 8.6/9/9.0.4. The drive comes with: "BS Recorder and BS Clip" for CD recording and "PowerDVD VR-X" for DVD playback.