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  1. windata and microcenter market a clone disk made in hong kong

     

    I know, I bought 200 of their yuden t02's, utter crap

     

    a benq would spit them out, an nec would barely burn a usable disk, my old lg actually made a tolerable burn at 4x on a few of them

  2. I got a Pioneer at the start of the year and it's the best drive I have ever used. Previously I have had 3x NEC's which are solid and reliable and a BenQ that allows me to perform disc scans. For general use tho the Pioneer is the best !

     

    Night over at you know where swears his pioneer was only good with DL, course he's got 5 or 6 maybe more benq's and many hundreds of TY's stockpiled, he pulled his pioneer and put it back in the closet, said the benq's burn DL almost as good anyway

    and he likes to scan his burns.

     

    Had a new plex(external) and gave it away to a fellow member cause it wasn't up to his standards, now that's picky.

  3. when did pioneer implement autobitsetting for dvd+r?

     

    afaik you had to use the buffalo firmware and pioneer burns dl best but the samsungs do sl better and bitsett with stock firmware

     

    newer nec's aren't as good as the 35xx/45xx line???????

  4. Beautiful work Kirk, red oak?

    Long ago and far away I ran into a retired UTK PE professor, under a shed carport behind his lakehouse was a stack of wood, maybe 8 ft x 8 ft x 6 ft high. Black walnut, he picked the logs standing, had them cut in winter, then aged and then rough sawn. The stack was perfectly level and square with heavy weights on top. He had misted it every evening for two weeks.

    It was air dryed for a year, I walked around it and only saw a couple of hairline checks in the board ends. There was only one sawmill in ET that he would use and a kiln in N Georgia for the final dry. He made one piece of furniture a year for close family only.

    Used to be an old codger here that made grandfather clocks(woodwork), same kind of wood, you ordered and paid for your clock up front, he took a month to do the case and then used hand rubbed tongue oil, one coat a month, 12 coats.

  5. are you sure the mobo is usb2? how old is the pc?

    just trying to find out more info to help you

     

    It's about 2-3 years old. Def USb 2.0. Its a p4 2.7 with 2 gb of ram

     

     

    make sure the hard drive has plenty of free space and is reasonably defragged

     

    never try usb to usb drive on the same controller, too much I/O for one, with them sharing a cable to the hub especially

  6. I had a disk a while back that would pass verification but I noticed glitches in viewing on an older dvd player

     

    A quality scan revealed some issues with disk

     

    The data was intact and could be recovered with a good slow reader

  7. a google search for that drive yields lots of problems, dell doesn't help much either

     

    LG and Samsung make good standard drives but their oem's for laptops seem to have more than their share of problems

     

    Philips is another one

  8. Blood Diamond was better than Hotel Rowanda in my book, Last King of Scotland wasn't that good

     

    Catch a fire was OK

     

    Bridge to Teribita? seemed OK

     

    A real sleeper is supposed to be Seraphen Falls

  9. download and extract the firmware, make sure your desktop is clean enough to find it in safe mode

     

    make a new folder and but the files in there and download binflash also

     

    pressing F8 at bootup gets you into safe mode

     

    directions are included, take your time

  10. if bitsetting dvd+r's(single layer) is important to you then just flash with liggy's nec/optiarc 5170A firmware

     

    do it in safe mode so dma will be disabled

     

    otherwise I would at least upgrade to the newest sony firmware

    http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=2370

     

    since it's based on nec's stock 5170A there will be no bitsetting support for dvd+r

     

    dual layer dvd+r should auto bitsett with all firmwares

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