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If I am understanding correctly, you want a replacement optical drive which will do two things for a Macintosh running Mac OS 9:
   A. boot from an operating system installer when necessary.
   B. burn CDs.
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I have no intention of trying to boot from that drive as an experiment!!!
I have some sense of your hesitancy. Nevertheless, I am not sure why you have no intention of pushing the hardware to its limits to determine what your current situation is.

In addition, I am not sure what your options are for burning a CD in Mac OS 9 using another optical drive. As far as I know, PatchBurn and Toast are not options in Mac OS 9.

Back up everything you can't afford to lose: documents, mail, movies, music, photos, and other data and settings.