Posted by Eamon Skelton on 04/02/07 00:55

On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:00:17 +0000, root wrote:

> Again I thank you for your ideas. I think we are beating a dead
> horse here. I just bought (and subsequently returned to Best Buy)
> the LG GSA H42LI drive. It too says it can read RAM at 12x. It
> read at 3.5Mb/s which is 3x. It is 50% faster than the Pioneer.

Every little helps :-)

Did you try writing to DVD+/-R with the LG?

> My motherboard is the EVGA 680i SLI with an NVIDIA chip set. The problem
> isn't in my machine as the differences among the various brands of
> drive evidence.

I see a lot of reports about SATA problems with the 680i. EVGA
and Nvidia have brought out several BIOS upgrades to address
these problems.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/chipsets/display/20061222124554.html


> I can't bring myself to work with Windows.

That seems perfectly reasonable to me.

> There you go, you are seeing exactly what I see. Only the BenQ drive
> lives up to what is written on the box. The BenQ does read at 5x.
> I got the BenQ on sale at Staples over a year ago for $20. The
> model is no longer available.

BenQ have been taken over by Liteon. Real BenQ drives are not easy to
find: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=192997


> growisofs for +R.

Same here.


> I use the IDE/ATAPI driver in kernel 2.6.20.

Newer than mine.

I still think something is wrong with your setup. You should be able
to burn those Verbatim discs at higher speeds. I use growisofs to
burn Verbatim +R discs at 16x in my Liteon and 18x in my LG.

This site seems to confirm that some drives can read 3x DVD-RAM
at speeds higher than 3x and some drives can't.
http://www.cdr-zone.com/forum/about4306.html

I suppose the ultimate soultion would be to find some 12x DVD-RAM
media. I suppose it will cost a fortune, will work perfectly with
your new DVD drive, but it won't work in your Panasonic. That's
what would happen to me anyway.

Regards.

E.S.


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