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Posted by Voinin on 04/14/06 04:08
Brendan R. Wehrung wrote:
> Everybody seems to recommend Liteon, so when Office Max reduced their
> clearance price on the SOHW-1673SX external burner to $60 (from Monday's
> $80) I bought one. If somebody has one, could they tell me if it will
> work with DVD Shrink 3.2, DVD Decrypter (and Fab Decrypter), 123 Copy DVD,
> I copy DVD 2, DVD X Copy (although old, weems to work better in handling
> scratched discs) and basic Record Now! (OEM version). I also use WinOnCD5
> to copy CDs.
>
> I have bought Nero Ultra 7, but there's been enough talk about it that I'm
> waiting until I upgrade to Win XP SP2 before installing it, since it seems
> to be mentioned as the cause of other burning software not working after
> the SP2 patch is applied. I'n hoping some or all of the other software
> will continue to work with the Liteon burner and when I install Nero won't
> make a difference.
>
> Suggestions appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Brendan
>
> Ps They _say_ USP 2 for connection (apparently no Firewire), but would it
> work at a slower burning speed with USB 1? I have a 733 MHz Pentium III
> running on Win '98SE that is theoretically within the minimum requirements
> on the Liteon box.
First, you won't be able to use this thing with USB 1.x. It's simply
too slow. USB 1.x has only about 1/40th the data speed that USB 2 has.
You'll need to get a USB 2 card to work with this. While USB 2 is
backwards compatible with USB 1.x, this only applies to hooking up USB
1.x devices to a USB 2 port on the computer. Compatibility doesn't work
the other way. If you have a USB 2 device, it cannot be used on a USB
1.x port on the computer.
You also may find some problems with being able to send data to the
burner at higher burn speeds. You should experiment, but a 733 MHz
system is very slow compared to low-end systems being sold today. A
quick look at Dell (just as an example, not meant to be held as a
standard) shows their low end systems starting out with a processor
speed of 2.53 GHz, or about three times what you have.
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