Is my Cendyne CDRW a Lite-On?

[Unicron80]

Long story short- Bought a Cendyne 32x12x40 cd-rw from Fry's, but threw away the box. The serial number only says "32x12x40 cd-rw", that's it. nothing else on there even remotely resembling the other serial numbers or some such that I have read in a few threads on here.

The burner seems to be working fine, so should I not worry about drivers and firmware? I still don't quite understand what firmware does, guess I should investigate that, but my question is this-

how do I tell who manufactured my cd-rw? I want to assume Lite-On, but I have no evidence...any tips would be appreciated.

 

[OverVolt]

I have a Liteone CD-RW- came in a red box. it says it's speed on front like 40x12x48x. If you have Nero it can tell you what kinda of CD-RW you have and model i think too. MY liteon came with Nero

hope that helps!

 

[Unicron80]

Looked through Nero, only thing I could find was when selecting recorders. Still listed "32x" etc as the model, but it did list the firmware version (1.01) and what the burner would support and such. Thanks for the help, still not sure who made my burner or if I should worry about it.

 

[BPiersol]

I'm not sure about this, but couldn't you look in your BIOS when you boot your pc? My BIOS reports the brand and speed of my drives.

 

[Rhonda85]

My first cendyne was actually a Teac, after it went bad & I sent it back, cendyne shipped me another, but it says plextor on the drive. My guess is that cendyne buys others old stock & markets it as their own.

 

[Willoughbyva]

I think there should be an fcc number on the drive somewhere. Do a google search and see if it comes up. There is actually a database with this information in it, but I lost the link.

Will

 

[Tal]

Usually on the top, the drive says Model: LTR something something something. what's yours say? -TAL

 

[Jeff7]

Go here, download and run Driveinfo v2.2; see what it ID's the drive as, and post that info here, or search for it with Google. Hopefully that'll turn up something useful.

 

[stonecold3169]

easiest way to tell is pull the drive out and look at the top. If there is a round portion which stands a bit taller then the rest of the drive (you'll know what I mean if you see it), then it's a liteon, they are the only drive makers that do this.