Good reader to go with my 12/10/32a?? also Kenwood True-x ?

[TSDible]

Hello All...

I know the reader question has been hounded in these forums, but I'm really looking for a good one to go with the burner I ordered from CompUSA...

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I just got a Kenwood 72x True-X drive... out of the box it is only ripping audio at about 3x, and does not support the subchannel reading stuff.... Am I doing something wrong here? the kenwoodtech.com site is down, and has been since I got the drive about a week ago. It seems that the drive should do better.
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Of course I want my CD reader to support all of the goodies... DVD is nice, but it is optional.

I would appreciate and comments on readers and pricing... links to a good deal would be great. Thanks for all of your help.

 

[NucleusWDS]

Plextor Ultra Plex 40 SCSI

 

[LXi]

TEAC, Toshiba, Acer.

 

[TSDible]

Anyone have any insight to my Kenwood problem?

 

[Dan]

I don't have insight into your specific problem but I do have some general insight into the Kenwood 72X. I tried one last week. The speed was impressive, e.g., I did a really quick install of Win98SE. On the other hand, I was shocked at how picky the Kenwood is when it comes to reading burned CD's.

I use CD's to back up a lot of data so that posed a real problem for me. I returned the Kenwood to Fry's and picked up an Acer 50X at Best Buy. The latter has read everything I've thrown at it without fail.

 

[zippy]

Toshiba SD-M1402- at least I think that is the model number! It is the Toshiba DVD drive that does DVDs at 12x and CDs at 40x and it is compatible with CloneCD. Not to mention that it reads everything thrown at it quite well.

 

[HeinekinMan]

TSDible,

Don't know what the subchannel stuff is but that ripping rate STINKS! You should easily something in the neighborhood of 46x DAE. Do you have DMA enabled for it? Also, how is your system configured and what s/w?

I have each of mine configured on the Secondary IDE channel as SLAVE to each of my CDRW drives. DMA is enabled and is a MUST.

Also make sure that your mobo's BIOS is detecting it properly as an UDMA 2 device; I have my settings set for auto detect but some mobo's are finicky in this regard...

Heiny

 

[Kwad Guy]

For about the same price as the Kenwood 72x true-x drive, you could
have purchased a second one of those $99 (after $30 rebate)
12-10-32x drives from CompUSA and used it as the source drive.
Kind of a waste, but it'll do DAE at around 30x after upgrading
the firmware and data reads at 32x...So it's PLENTY fast to use
as a source drive...

Personally, I'd second the recommendation for the Plextor 40X
CDrom. But it's SCSI, and if you're using an IDE writer, you're
probably not real keen on using a SCSI reader...

Kwad

 

[TSDible]

Can anyone confirm whether the Kenwood drive is supposed to read subchannel data? If not, I guess there is no reason to try and make it work.