Plextor Users need your help... Question answered thanks Daaavo and everyone else ;)

[Hanpan]

Thanks dave. I guess i am just going to flash to the newest firmware and try my luck with clonecd.

 

[Hanpan]

One lat bump 😉

 

[Hanpan]

Thanks to everyone my question has been answered. Special thanks to Daaavo.

 

[alkemyst]

I opened up my case again and found out this...the external SCSI case has all the same markings except TLA#0403A, when I took the drive out of the case it says TLA#0403....so A must mean external.

 

[Daaavo]

What is the date on the bottom???? Mine is Feb 1999, but it says 0403. There is no "A" on mine.

 

[alkemyst]

Mine is an April 1999.

 

[Hanpan]

Mine says feb as well. 🙂

Thanks for your help as well alkemyst. It does seem A means external.

Thanks again to everyone. 🙂

 

[BuckNaked]

I think the TLA has more to do with how it works with CloneCD rather than the build date.March is probably when they updated the drive to a later TLA#. I remember some posts regarding this last year when this was a hot deal. Someone got a response from Plextor and the the TLA was a way of tracking the firmware and hardware revisions of the drive. I think with the TLA of 403 or later, you won't have a problem with CloneCD.

Dave

 

[Hanpan]

Thanks dave. I have found this out now but had you told me this earlier this would have been a shorter thread 😉


However it is true that tla 0403 is correct there are in fact burners manufactured in feb that have this as well. Since there were some in feb that don't have this it says on the cloncd website that one needs march or later. While this is not in fact true it saves the confusion but screws those people like me and daaavo that thouhgt our buner wouldn't work 🙂