Lite-On LTR-52327s help, please! - Club CDFreaks

JT01 · 05-11-2003

Bought one of these bad boys at Best Buy this week, since everyone says they're great, so after running CD speed on my old 48x and 52x (Optorite - so so drive), I run the Lite-On, and it rips audio at avg. 20x and burns (on Imation 48x media) at about 8x!)

I have made sure that I'm on DMA on my IDE channel, that the firmware is up to date (QS0B), and I'm about out of ideas (this is the second drive (I exchanged it today) I've gotten from BB that's this way, so I suppose it should be fixable (or a bad batch of drives).

Any ideas?

J

Kai445 · 05-11-2003

maybe try installing motherboard IDE busmaster drivers?

Other than that... I'm having no problems with my drive. I have shipping firmware, though (06).

robman · 05-11-2003

Need more system details: what's your IDE device cabling setup, what Windows version, what motherboard chipset?

JT01 · 06-11-2003

Thanks for replying, guys... Busmaster drivers are on according to device manager.

Setup is:
XP Pro
P4 1.8 400fsb
Intel 850 chipset
512 MB PC800 RDRAM

Primary IDE 2 WD HDs

Secondary IDE
Master LiteOn 52x
Slave Optorite 52x

(have also tried it as master with no slave)
Optorite 52x and Memorex 48x work flawlessly on this same machine, so I'm very confused.

This problem can't be just from media (though the recording may be, partially, as newer media worked better with SMARTBURN turned off), as audio ripping is even more problematic. In Musicmatch, I tried ripping the same disc on all 3 drives, the Optorite tops out around 50x, the Memorex ~45x, but the LiteOn at 16x!!!

However, this is the second LiteOn with the same problem...

Thanks for the help!

J

Kai445 · 07-11-2003

Try using alternate software (CDex).

robman · 10-11-2003

Is the drive light solid green when ripping, or blinking on and off? If it's blinking, then the system is not reading from the drive as fast as the drive can read. Are you CERTAIN that DMA is actually working (does it show Ultra DMA Mode 2 as the Current Transfer Mode in the IDE channel's advanced settings in Device Manager?)

Dufroise · 10-11-2003

You must make sure that you are only running a burning software. If your processor is bussy enough, running quite a few programs also, your burner will not reach the max speed by no means.

A signal that could lead you to verify this, is what robman said. Pay attention to it.

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05-11-2003	#2 (permalink)
Kai445 New on Forum Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 11	maybe try installing motherboard IDE busmaster drivers? Other than that... I'm having no problems with my drive. I have shipping firmware, though (06).

05-11-2003	#3 (permalink)
robman CD Freaks Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 72	Need more system details: what's your IDE device cabling setup, what Windows version, what motherboard chipset?

06-11-2003	#4 (permalink)
JT01 New on Forum Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 2	Thanks for replying, guys... Busmaster drivers are on according to device manager. Setup is: XP Pro P4 1.8 400fsb Intel 850 chipset 512 MB PC800 RDRAM Primary IDE 2 WD HDs Secondary IDE Master LiteOn 52x Slave Optorite 52x (have also tried it as master with no slave) Optorite 52x and Memorex 48x work flawlessly on this same machine, so I'm very confused. This problem can't be just from media (though the recording may be, partially, as newer media worked better with SMARTBURN turned off), as audio ripping is even more problematic. In Musicmatch, I tried ripping the same disc on all 3 drives, the Optorite tops out around 50x, the Memorex ~45x, but the LiteOn at 16x!!! However, this is the second LiteOn with the same problem... Thanks for the help! J

07-11-2003	#5 (permalink)
Kai445 New on Forum Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 11	Try using alternate software (CDex).

10-11-2003	#6 (permalink)
robman CD Freaks Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 72	Is the drive light solid green when ripping, or blinking on and off? If it's blinking, then the system is not reading from the drive as fast as the drive can read. Are you CERTAIN that DMA is actually working (does it show Ultra DMA Mode 2 as the Current Transfer Mode in the IDE channel's advanced settings in Device Manager?)

10-11-2003	#7 (permalink)
Dufroise CD Freaks Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 110	You must make sure that you are only running a burning software. If your processor is bussy enough, running quite a few programs also, your burner will not reach the max speed by no means. A signal that could lead you to verify this, is what robman said. Pay attention to it.