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Does anyone else here own a Plextor 24x 10x 40x cd-rw or different plextor cd-rw ?

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Wondering if you have to use name brand media like the the media recommended by plextor on their site? Like will your plextor read genic brand cd-rs or cd-rws? i know mind will burn on them fine but for some reason freezes up when it goes to read them.

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Snoop i already tried that buy the compusa cd-rws and office depot cd-rs still froze when i was reading them. Is plextor picky on what media it reads? I mean i heard someone with a lite-on cd-rw have this problem i think. My compusa cd-rws and office depot cd-rs are read fine in my old HP 9110i 8x 4x 32x cd-rw btw.


 
I have a plextor 12x internal. It burns very well. You should update your firmware like snoop said. I have used almost every cdr on sale. Never have any problems, writing or reading. What software do you use? I use Pleaxtor manager 2000 and Adaptech EZ. Both work well. Some people may say Nero is better. I have never used Nero, so I can't say anthing about it.
 
I've got the 121032A and it'll read/write with any crappy $0.05 Ritek disc I throw at it.

Does the problem only happen with low quality discs or has this happened with pressed CDs too?

 
extro ok happens with low quality discs like my compusa 4x cd-rws and office depot 12 or 16x cd-rs it will freeze up a lot on when i go to read them but write on them perfectly fine Plus the office depot cd-rs at 12x or 16x write at 24x btw. Strange i think. But when i tried the 4x to 10x cd-rw i got with my plextor HD i wrote stuff to it then tried to read it and no freeze ups at all so far. Plus brought some TDK 4x to 10x CD-RWs which so far i can read fine too without freeze ups. I brought some tdk 24x cd-rs too sense i needed new cd-rs anyway.
 
My Plextor 161040A works fine with cheap cd-rs. I normally use only Verbatim or TDK, but since I went to college some friends have had me burn and read some cheap cds and it worked just fine. You might want to give Plextor a call on this issue, as it might be a hardware defect.
 
Sounds like it's a problem just reading cheap media then, but if it's a new drive you may wanna complain to Plextor about it.

And be warned, just because a disc is name brand doesn't mean it's not a cheapo from Taiwan. I've got 100 TDK CD-Rs here that are made by Ritek in Taiwan. You can check the manufacturer of the disc by putting in a writer and running CDR Identifier on it. I love this program. It shows me what kind of junk they're trying to fob off on me under their brand name! 😛

In order for the program to work you have to have an ASPI layer installed, and many people use ForceASPI17 (when they can find it - it's tough 'cause Adaptec sucks) to install one. And who knows, maybe it'll make your problem go away, but there's no guarantee. Anyway, you can at least get Aspi Check from that guy's site and see if your ASPI layer is up to snuff, and if you search real hard on Google.com for five seconds you'll come across a site that has it but I wouldn't know anything about that.... http://www.cyrus.troy.btinternet.co.uk/downloads.htm

Hey, where did that come from?! :Q

In the meantime you can do other things like going into device manager and making sure that the IDE channel the drive is connected to is set to use DMA if available for the Transfer Mode (properties/Advanced Tab), and it probably is.

(Pressed just means a commercial CD, which are pressed in a mold, not burned (which would take too long when you're making thousands of discs! Music CDs and store bought programs are on pressed CDs.)
 
extro strange but i think now i can read the cheap media fine. Knocks on wood. I still am a little worried it will freeze up again but we will see. i installed that ASPI thing btw u told me to so i could get that program working.

extro do you know of any reasons why it would be reading my office depot cd-r and compuusa cd-rws now without freezing up? I don't get it. I am stumped.

 
Was it any application in particular that was giving you problems reading, or was it hanging even in Windows Explorer?

Usually when a disc is bad and the drive can't read it you'll just get an error message, but the system won't hang.

It could be that you needed that ASPI layer to make your application work properly. It could have been that the writing software was having trouble writing properly to the cheap discs without it and they had errors.
 
No it just hung in windows explorer. No program being used. Its a pretty strange problem but i think it may be fixed now. But who knows if it will pop up again.

 
One last thing, is DMA enabled on your plextor? The Plextor's are supposed to be set to PIO mode 4 or DMA, and not Ultra DMA.
 
not to insult your intelligence, but you are burning them at the specced speed on the CD-Rs, right? In other words, a 24x burner will not burn a 2x CD very well at 24x.....
 


<< In other words, a 24x burner will not burn a 2x CD very well at 24x >>


you can't do that with the x24 plextor because the of PoweRecII...The system detects that the media cannot be written safely at 24x so it drops writing speed down to a safe level.
 
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