Perhaps a later revision G4, different Mac or control software may provide better performance that I saw from the extra 1MB of cache. See this HardOCP's Ethics page for more info. Special guests from Bungie, Gathering of Developers and Take 2 Interactive are said to appear. An owner of a G4 Yikes notes various problems with a Plextor 8X IDE CDRW mounted in his Yikes G4 running OS 9. Drive is bootable.
Drive burns fine.
9.0 driver causes the drive to eject cds all the time. Any time I try to use an Apple Installer, regardless if its off the cd I booted on, or even the Quicktime 4 or iMovie downlable installers, it will hang in mid install. Disconnect the Plextor, everytihng installs fine. I had to make a disk image of OS 9 from the cd, disconnect the drive, mount the image, install off the image, then reconnect the drive. Whenever an Apple installer is run this is needed.