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Mr. Man · 25-11-2006

jon2121 - I would begin to think you are correct. The Sony help for the one gentlman about slowing down the ide chain could have made things operate differently.
And I think they weighed the possibility and decided to OEM out the drives and move on to a newer version of the drive. The problem is people who see these issues posted, but dunno the drive they are about to buy is just a rebranded SH-S182D.
While I have heard of some products not working with some chipsets in the past, I never heard about drives having this problem... guess you learn something new all the time.

I think CompUSA as well as Sony are aware there are more problems surfacing with the drive... CompUSA has had the Mad Dog version of the drive on sale almost constantly since this issue was discovered, and Sony was running rebates lowering the cost on the DRU-830A... This lets them clear them out, and if only a few get returned as "defective" they return them to the manufacterer and get repaid. Then they don't order that product to restock the shelves...

The other possibilty that just came to me while pondering the world was... are you using 40 wire ribbon or 80 wire cable?

When I was using the SH-S182D just as normal in my machine I had 80 wire and it was secondary. When I tried it as master, the results were slightly better but still not right, I was using a 40 wire ribbon cable. And now that its frankensteined into an external hard drive case, its on a 40 wire ribbon. I think I am going to try to find a decently priced external USB case designed for burners to try, I tried to burn an 8x media tonight and it never got much higher than 4x for most of the burn, i wandered away for a smoke in the middle, but the drives buffer was running dangerously low over and over so I doubt I will get a burn higher than 4 until I find a case thats designed for burners...

CARLOS R - if your having problems with the creation of DVD-R discs and have the larger lead-in, I would suggest the SB04 CDFE of the firmware. If you have a compatiable chipset thats not causing problems it corrects the problems.

Motherboard--------------------ChipSet----------------------Result
Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-Sli---------Nvidia nForce4 Sli (amd)------Fails (on secondary chain)

25-11-2006	#91 (permalink)
Mr. Man New on Forum Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 28	Re: SH-S182D DVD-R Lead-In jon2121 - I would begin to think you are correct. The Sony help for the one gentlman about slowing down the ide chain could have made things operate differently. And I think they weighed the possibility and decided to OEM out the drives and move on to a newer version of the drive. The problem is people who see these issues posted, but dunno the drive they are about to buy is just a rebranded SH-S182D. While I have heard of some products not working with some chipsets in the past, I never heard about drives having this problem... guess you learn something new all the time. I think CompUSA as well as Sony are aware there are more problems surfacing with the drive... CompUSA has had the Mad Dog version of the drive on sale almost constantly since this issue was discovered, and Sony was running rebates lowering the cost on the DRU-830A... This lets them clear them out, and if only a few get returned as "defective" they return them to the manufacterer and get repaid. Then they don't order that product to restock the shelves... The other possibilty that just came to me while pondering the world was... are you using 40 wire ribbon or 80 wire cable? When I was using the SH-S182D just as normal in my machine I had 80 wire and it was secondary. When I tried it as master, the results were slightly better but still not right, I was using a 40 wire ribbon cable. And now that its frankensteined into an external hard drive case, its on a 40 wire ribbon. I think I am going to try to find a decently priced external USB case designed for burners to try, I tried to burn an 8x media tonight and it never got much higher than 4x for most of the burn, i wandered away for a smoke in the middle, but the drives buffer was running dangerously low over and over so I doubt I will get a burn higher than 4 until I find a case thats designed for burners... CARLOS R - if your having problems with the creation of DVD-R discs and have the larger lead-in, I would suggest the SB04 CDFE of the firmware. If you have a compatiable chipset thats not causing problems it corrects the problems. Motherboard--------------------ChipSet----------------------Result Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-Sli---------Nvidia nForce4 Sli (amd)------Fails (on secondary chain)