YAMAHA 8x4x24 CDRW back at AMAZON $119 minus $15 coup =HOT!!!!!!!

[Jmman]

Get it here YAMAHA

The $15 coupon for electronics is out there, you know where to get it.....

 

[TeacherTim]

I bought this CDRW drive about a month ago, installed it without any trouble, and didn't do anything with it for about a month. I have used EZ CD Creator that came with it, plus version 4.0, and each time, it has locked up, and apparently destroyed my boot record on my C: Drive. I did it again this morning, with the same results. Anybody know if this is typical with the Yamaha drive? I'm really confused....

 

[bigbigsavings]

jmman's thread was posted before the other thread, but the other has much more discussion about this. Go to http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=256937

Alex

 

[vegasbabyy]

Nice find!

If only I could install one!

 

[12obotcholi]

wow, this is HOT Joe. Damn, i wish i have the money. F**king Casino took all my money

 

[cooldot]

oops...seems can't find $15 coupon electronics for Amazon

 

[railer]

cooldot:

Techbargains.com

Check it out.

 

[cooldot]

thanks, got it!

 

[The_Dude8]

sold out..teachertim, i have the same problem using adaptec easy cd..everytime i use it, i got the blue screen of death...made 2 coasters out of it..i think the yamaha is not comptitable w/ easy cd creator 4.00..any solution on how to fix the problems???

 

[bigd480]

I've used this Yamaha with EZ CD and had great results... Not a single coaster and everything burnt at 8x... The version of DirectCD that it comes with is straight crap though; don't install it...

You could try using Nero which is almost as simple and also gets around some copy protection

 

[pancho619]

I've used my Yamaha 8x4x24 with both DirectCD and CD Creator and haven't had one single coaster since I got it 5 months ago. I burn everything at 8x and I love it.


-- pancho619

 

[bigbigsavings]

To those of you who got blue screens when trying to write to the drive, I had the SAME problem. I almost ripped out half of my hair before I figured out what was wrong. It seems that I had plugged it into the wrong slot on the motherboard! It did not want to work in the secondary channel, so I fooled around with where to plug it in, and finally found a slot that it liked. I still have no clue what it's plugged into right now, because my Asus A7V has 4 slots that look exactly the same, but it works! Try changing where the cable is plugged in on your motherboard, and that SHOULD fix it!

Alex

 

[TatSteeL]

This might solve your blue screen of death problem. In order to record 8x and above you need to enable Ultra DMA in or Bios and your CDRW drive for windows go to "my computer properties > device management > CD-Rom properties and check DMA" for your motherboard chip to enable the IDE Ultra DMA go to your motherboard web site and download the lastest filename.inf where filename is the file which they name, after download right click and install it, you also need to set your CDRW to single driver or master only which means no extended driver attach to your CDRW. Why? because of data transfer conflict, well I hope this works for you all.

 

[Hankysmoo]

Does anyone know if this yamaha works with CloneCD? thx!

 

[The_Dude8]

tech, i followed your instruction, but i got a message saying Unsupported hardware alert: DMA might not be compatible w/ your controller, hard drive, or cd-room drive. contact your hardware manufacturer, or check their website to verify that the hardware device supports DMA...btw my mb is asus k7m..

 

[ProppaT]

Heh, looks like Anandtech bought them out again...

Thanks for the heads up...too bad they were all gone

 

[dude]

Dude 8,

An 8x burner is still pretty new. It should support UDMA. If it doesn't, it's trash, and not worth it's salt. Any IDE drives made these past 2 years or so should support UDMA.

 

[dude]

Dude 8,

Enable DMA anyways. It always give that error message no matter what. It's more of a caution, just in case you experience any difficulty with it, you'll know or remember what you changed...

 

[abracadabra1]

cool...thx dood!

 

[Gunslinger]

Got mine a month or two back when Staples had em for $99. I'm running mine under Win 2k Pro with a dual PIII setup and using Ez CD Creator 4.0. SO far so good, rocks at 8X. I love burning while running all kinds of apps

Also remember, if you burn cd to cd dont have the burner and cd reader on the same channel (cable), the channel can only perform one process at a time. I have them on separate channels.

 

[yellowperil]

I've had this burner for a few weeks and it works great. One issue, though, when I use DirectCD, it is very slow in recognizing the disc in the drive. Sometimes it'll freeze up my computer for about 5 seconds, and will even cause my internet connection to drop.

 

[Nack]

Great deal. If the $15 c0upon works with the $25 GC from those other two places (if either comes through), I'll probably pick one of these up. $79 for an 8x Yamaha would be way too hard to pass up, particularly considering that I am still stuck at 2x.

Nack

 

[joecool222111]

not bad

 

[WageSlave]

I dont know what that junk is about destroying the boot record of you HD..... I dont think that is possible. ..... anyway, I got this burner last time, have ULTRA DMA enabled... plugged in the burner, installed no prob, use all the different software from ez to clone..... great drive...

 

[The_Dude8]

thanks dude..i will give it a try..too bad this writer does not support write text on audio cd, that would be nice..