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[AuckLUG] Buying DVD R/W

Kent Wilkinson kent_wilkinson at xtra.co.nz
Wed Jun 21 20:04:23 NZST 2006


PI have just got an Asus DRW-1608P35 16x drive, it works well, multi
zone with linux, but fails when writing dvd+r discs, writes all others
fine. It's supposed to be rebranded pioneer and you can supposedly
update firmware to pioneers. but just for the sake of +R discs I won't
be trying it. Apart from that one issue, I have had no probs. It was
dirt cheap too. 

kent

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:05 +1200, Morgan Read wrote:
> Chilling_Silence wrote:
> > Morgan Read wrote:
> ...
> >> no-name in OEM equipment and laptops.  They're crap.  (e.g. wont blank
> >> rw media.)
> >> http://www.qsitw.com/
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> M.
> >>
> > Yeah but I had problems with them when a supplier replaced my TS drive
> > with a Qsi drive in my laptop... be it in windows, linux, vista (Was
> > longhorn at the time), whatever... NOTHING liked the drive very much at
> > all. Heck it even had issues reading discs it had just burnt. Never been
> > a fan of Qsi.. wouldnt poke it with a 10ft stick!
> > 
> > But thats hardware issues.. its not OS-specific :-)
> True - also, you can get RWs blanked with cdrdao (if that's useful info
> for anyone:)
> Regards,
> M.
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