Despite the vanishing of the Plextor Premium series burners,
Plextor Japan has published a new utility called « AS-Striker »
http://plextor.jp/software/as-striker/index.php

I has to do with changing the settings for AUTOSTRATEGY.


Direct download links:
http://plextor.jp/download/software/...r_Setup100.exe
http://plextor.jp/download/software/...r_Setup100.zip



I do not understand japanase but I am sure the experts here at cdfreaks are going to tell us all the details about this new tool ...
First does it only work with the PX-760A/SA (firmware 1.05 & after) ?
Here is a babelfish translation:

Great Find Franz99

One Thing That I've Already Spot Is That AS-STRIKER Shows CMC MAG.xxx Media ID's Correctly, Better Than The Likes Of PlexTools Pro XL.

No it doesn't. It shows more characters of the CMC MAG.xxx media codes but it cuts off the last character.

Example:

CMC MAG. AM3 becomes:

CMC MAG. AM-1 for the first entry,
CMC MAG. AM-2 for the second entry,
and so on.

I'm not currently on the desktop system where AS Striker is installed, so I can't show you any screenshots.

Thanks DrageMester

Sorry Got Too Excited And A Bit Of Wishful Thinking.

DAXON AZ3-1 Reported In AS-STRIKER
DAXON AZ3-0 Reported In PlexTools Pro XL v3.12

After all this time trying (since dec 2003) … I am happy that I finaly found something to start a thread !

Did somebody else get these "funny windows" during the install process ?



Is it possible to fix this by adding a language plug-in in Windows XP SP2 ?
After the install my AS-Striker seems tu run without japanese characters or ???????

That's Odd

I Download The Zip Version:
http://plextor.jp/download/software/...r_Setup100.zip

I Choose English In The Installation.

An other question, is your AS-Striker Help file also empty ?
saying: « Sorry, not ready yet »

Same here.

@franz99: Did you by any chance choose Japanese as the installed language?

Yes, my help file is also empty.

No one seems to have noticed that I posted info on AS-Striker in the Firmware and utility announcement thread

I did

Can't find my 760A....
I have VIA KT-400 chipset and hyperion 5.11A drivers

Motherboard manufacturers' IDE drivers are problematic with optical drives anyway.
Try with the Microsoft drivers.

Same problem here (Asus P4G8x, Intel ICH4 with MS drivers).

ok i resolve this problem....this is not driver problem...it's apllication bug. When i press on drive select-list i have error, but when i manually enter the drive (760a) letter eg. h: than work ok.

Thia@9 had to manually enter his drive letter as well. The utility detected all of my drives fine (Asus P5B Deluxe, Intel P965+ICH8R with Intel Matrix Storage).

I had the same problem with the drive letter. After entering manually it shows the drive. But it doesn't show any of my AS entries that I can see through Plextools.

I reinstalled the IDE driver and now it works. I don't know why because i just reinstalled the same (original M$) driver. I am glad it works now and other 760 drives can be outfitted with a complete database now.

EDIT: I have an idea: Maybe initate a new thread dealing with sharing AutoStrategy databases?

I found next bug in as striker.
I save to file my strategies (16x and 8x) but when i deleted from the drive and import from this file all speed is set to 6x

I experienced the same problem.

[QUOTE=franz99]Despite the vanishing of the Plextor Premium series burners,
Plextor Japan has published a new utility called « AS-Striker » QUOTE]


Correct me if I'm wrong. Plextor did a press release which made clear that there is no intention to leave the optical drive business. It has not been said that there will be no new premium burner.

Well, a "Premium" burner would imply a Plextor original design based on a Sanyo chipset that features PowerRec, GigaRec, VariRec, AutoStrategy, etc. It is highly unlikely we will see another drive like that.

But can it really be categorically ruled out that there will be one? That the BD-drive is a rebadge doesn't mean much when you look at it in the light of history. First Plextor DVD drives were rebadges as well!

I think it would be right to say that maybe the company is thinking about it whether it is economically smart to release another one or something like that. But fact is that they didn't say that there will be no more.

No, it cannot be ruled out IMHO. But as Two Degrees has stated it's highly unlikely, given then current market situation.

What Plextor is doing right now is sitting back and keeping their name alive in the ODD-Market. They may come back with own designs, if there is a market for it. Right now there is no more money in the CD/DVD market and the BR/HDDVD market ist still too small to support many vendors in volume. Hence OEM solutions. No great risk and gain but stay present.

LiteOn announced an order for drives from Plextor some time ago. Note that this does not state wether those drives are of LiteON or Plextor design. However given the current course Plextor is taking, an OEM drive seems locigal. BTW: I doubt Plextor has built any drive by themselves for some time. Given their market share it's simply not economical. So they probably outsourced the production of their designs already some time ago. The only drive manufacturers existing that i'm sure of right now are LG/Hitachi and LiteON. I'm not sure if Optiarc produces any drives themselves. I don't know about Pioneer. Benq is a goner and the rest is all OEM.

Anyway, the bottom line is Plextor could (re)introduce an own design (produced by someone else) at any time, given there is a market for it. However i guess if Plextor was to reappear with such a Premium drive again it would probably be targetted at professionals and not at consumers. And if i mean professional i mean something way above their last offering.

Actually even as a consumer i'd be interesting in such a solution. Just imagine a 760-style drive with - for example - a calibrating-option for exact quality scans. Now that would be interesting, even if it came at quadruple the cost of a 760.

A spikeless, 760-style drive with 8 MB buffer. That would be great and I would definitely be ready to pay significantly more than for an average DVD burner.
It might be possible that such a thing shows up after BD/HD-DVD become mainstream.

Sound business logic by hwp. If only we knew the Japanese version of it .

(PX-800A has shown up at alternate.de this week, not in stock yet.)