Lite On 40x Burner
Has anyone had success using a Lite On 40/12/48(LTR40125S) burner with cdrecord and debian? I was looking around and couldn't find any definative answer. The drive is $40 cheaper then the 40x Plextor. I really don't care to waste my money. -steve -- Steven Isaacson http://spi.panaverse.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AIM/MSN/Yahoo:spi516 "There's not enough songs about love in the world" - Anything Box -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lite On 40x Burner
I can't say that I've used the drive, although I do have a few general comments. On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:58:09PM -0500, Steven Isaacson wrote: > > The drive is $40 cheaper then the 40x Plextor. I really don't care to > waste my money. > Do you know if the LiteOn can do reliable Digital Audio Extraction? How about DAO mode? Raw writing mode? As someone who burns about 30 discs a day, I can tell you that these options are important. I'm not criticizing your choice of drive, I'm just saying that sometimes those additional $40 can make the difference between a drive that you can use to backup just about anything, and a drive that you can only record ISOs with. Happy to help, -- -- Edward Guldemond Key fingerprint: 29FF 2969 A04E F934 3F03 4329 BC56 3AA7 2F57 6735 msg07238/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Lite On 40x Burner
don't know about the 40x but the 16/10 works fine I don't really use this Liteon drive that much to say how reliable it is. Also have a 12/10 Plextor and this one is extremely solid under Linux & cdrecord. ThanhVu Nguyen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lite On 40x Burner
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 04:58 pm, Steven Isaacson wrote: > Has anyone had success using a Lite On 40/12/48(LTR40125S) burner with > cdrecord and debian? I was looking around and couldn't find any definative > answer. > > The drive is $40 cheaper then the 40x Plextor. I really don't care to > waste my money. > > -steve http://www.storagereview.com/ check them out - very in depth review of hard drives and optical drives. They previously had a Lite-On drive recommended on their leader board, but I don't think it was the 40x. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lite On 40x Burner
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 08:02:29PM -0400, Edward Guldemond wrote: > Do you know if the LiteOn can do reliable Digital Audio Extraction? How > about DAO mode? Raw writing mode? As someone who burns about 30 discs I can't speak specifically for the 40x, but VideoCD hobbyists absolutely love the current Lite-On burners, and those are exactly the kinds of things that they need to do. The Lite-Ons also seem to reliably support overburning (within the constraints of the media) and 90/99min blanks. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lite On 40x Burner
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:20:18PM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 08:02:29PM -0400, Edward Guldemond wrote: > > Do you know if the LiteOn can do reliable Digital Audio Extraction? How > > about DAO mode? Raw writing mode? As someone who burns about 30 discs > > I can't speak specifically for the 40x, but VideoCD hobbyists absolutely > love the current Lite-On burners, and those are exactly the kinds of > things that they need to do. The Lite-Ons also seem to reliably support > overburning (within the constraints of the media) and 90/99min blanks. This was a thinly veiled disguise for advice on these drives because mine is dying. :-) Now that I know, I'll consider LiteOns, however, I never burn my Video CDs over 1x and Super Video CDs over 4x for compatibility reasons. Happy to help, -- -- Edward Guldemond Key fingerprint: 29FF 2969 A04E F934 3F03 4329 BC56 3AA7 2F57 6735 msg07409/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Lite On 40x Burner
* Edward Guldemond ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:58:09PM -0500, Steven Isaacson wrote: > > > > The drive is $40 cheaper then the 40x Plextor. I really don't care to > > waste my money. > > > > Do you know if the LiteOn can do reliable Digital Audio Extraction? How > about DAO mode? Raw writing mode? As someone who burns about 30 discs > a day, I can tell you that these options are important. I'm not > criticizing your choice of drive, I'm just saying that sometimes those > additional $40 can make the difference between a drive that you can use > to backup just about anything, and a drive that you can only record ISOs > with. I ended up going with the 40x plextor. Its only $101 at newegg.com. It's about twice as fast as the LiteOn at DAE which I use extensively. Both support raw write and DAO. The plextor drive also has a black tray which is supposed to increase the speed and reliablity of the drive. I also wasn't that confident in how supported LiteOn's SmartBurn technology is. Plextor has a FAQ that says that all their burners are supported with 3rd party tools in linux. -steve -- Steven Isaacson http://spi.panaverse.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AIM/MSN/Yahoo:spi516 "Aphrodites softly crying she said..." - Cause & Effect -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lite On 40x Burner
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:58:09PM -0500, Steven Isaacson wrote: > Has anyone had success using a Lite On 40/12/48(LTR40125S) burner with cdrecord and > debian? I was looking around and couldn't find any definative answer. I realize you've already bought the Plextor (good drive), but thought I'd still comment about the 40125S since I own one and have been using it quite a bit. It does DAE hella fast. REALLY hella fast. Problem is, it doesn't deal well at all with discs that aren't absolutely pristine while doing it. I have more than a few discs that it returns media errors on while my stodgy ol' SCSI Toshiba SD-M1201 DVD-ROM has no trouble with them (although at about half the speed). This may be limited to my configuration (as I have the drive doing UDMA) or it may be endemic to the model... I have no idea. I did put the latest firmware in it and the behavior didn't change. As far as burning goes, it works well. I don't make videoCD's, so I can't speak to that, but it burns even cheap discs very reliably. It supports DAO, but it's one of the drives that insists on knowing how large the track is, or it won't accept the CUE sheet. This caused me no end of trouble figuring out because my previous Lite-On burner (4120B combo drive) didn't care... it just burned whatever you fed it and didn't complain. It was just slow about it. :) I'm not sure yet whether I'd rather have that behavior or a drive that was a little smarter and tried not to overrun the disc. :) This also affects its ability to overburn a disc (like to burn a 90 or 99 minute CD). It's perfectly willing to do it, but only in DAO, and then you have to use 'tsize=' to cdrecord to tell it how much data it's going to write. I had to hack eroaster (my fave burning front-end) to make the additional call to mkisofs to determine the size before I could create 90 min discs with it. Note that the previous only applies to data discs... it creates 90 minute audio discs without any complaints. > The drive is $40 cheaper then the 40x Plextor. I really don't care to > waste my money. Plextor is *never* a waste of money. And now I understand they're planning on getting back into SCSI... -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lite On 40x Burner
* Steven Isaacson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-15 16:58:09 -0500]: > Has anyone had success using a Lite On 40/12/48(LTR40125S) burner with > cdrecord and debian? I was looking around and couldn't find any > definative answer. > I am. I've had it since the beginning of August and am using it with X-CD-Roast. It works great although I haven't tried it at the higher burn speeds. It's worth the money IMO. Colin -- Colin KeefeWe never do anything well till we cease [EMAIL PROTECTED] to think about the manner of doing it. -William Hazlitt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
