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To: Spots who wrote (5709)	1/30/1999 10:13:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

More Plextor 8X Misc raw posts from the news groups. Some comment the Plextor 8X will not overburn. ( I think that means will not make CDs longer than 74 min) Need 8X certified media Need 8X compatible drives for 8X CD to CD burn Some mistakes (skips) at 8X audio burns ____________________________________________ I use TDK blanks on my Plextor 8/20. They are certified for 8x and cost about $1.50 each. _____________________________________________________________________ I have recently found some skips on about 1-2% of the audio tracks that I've recorded at 8x on my Plextor. I've dropped back down to 4x and have not encountered any problems yet. I'm using Mitsui silvers and WinOnCD 3.5 __________________________________________________________________ I just successsfully burned a 70 minute CD (using DiscDupe) at 8x, on the fly, while I logged on to my ISP, downloaded my email, read this newsgroup and open up and edited a large Excel spreadsheet. Life is good! Joe Mauceri __________________________________________________________________ I believe the price of blank 8x cd's are costly. That my influence your >decision. > > I can get Taiyo Yudens for about $1.30 USD each and these discs are certified at 8X (they are even recommended by Plextor for 8X writing). hawnmac@usa.net wrote: >Have been looking at this newsgroup for over a month now. Was >originally going to buy a mitsumi 4801 because I saw it at a computer >show and it was unbelieveably cheap. Then I started reading the >newsgroups and decided to buy a Plextor 4/12, well procrastination set ___________________________________________________________ yup it works so well you have to have a really good reader to do a cd 2 cd at 8x im getting the 32plex plextor i had the 40 and it sucked i tried to rip a audio cd..it only ripped at 6x when my burrner (plextor 8/20) ripped the cd at 20x also it has problems reading media with errors burned into the disk. like psx games. it has to slow down to 2x copying. there is a software fix for it. but thats not exceptable i hope the 32x will be better any comments? ___________________________________________________________________ >in and now the 8/20 is out and I am actually going to buy within the >week. This one seems to be the best. Would like some feedback. > >Also need a recommendation for a SCSI card. I have two systems a >Pentium II 300 with 96 megs of RAM and a DVD 2 drive. My second >system which is the one I was thinking of using is a Pentium 200 MMX >with three 2.0 gig hard drives and an ACER 32x IDE cdrom. Any >problems that you can see with this setup. i.e. too much heat not a >fast enough source cdrom. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks, > >Shawn MacArthur MCSE, MCT ThePLEX 8X has problems overburning, accordnig to Nero Tech Suppt... as of 01/26/1999 Unless Plextor has come out with a newer Firware, then please correct me! See below... This should be enough to make you opt for the new 6X Yamaha's coming out! aaargh I put the 8x PlexWriter at number 1 in the Top 5™ and now we got this mail from Joost concerning overburning with the Plex: "I could always "backup" flawlessly with my Teac R55s but I can't always backup perfectly on the Plextor 8/20. Nero (or Prassi) do write the cd's and finalize them but the writers hangs right afterwards. The machine needing a reboot before I can use the writer again. The reaction from Plextor was that they do NOT officially support overburning at the moment and they can not tell if they are going to update the firmware to support it fully... *********************** Also contacted Ahead (NERO) about this issue; this is their response to this question: 'I just switched from a Teac R55s (4x12) to a Plextor 8/20 (8x20). I can't seem to overburn anymore. CDs I could effortlessly copy with the Teac I can't copy with the Plextor. Any tips?.' The reaction from Ahead: " Yep. The CDR55s is capable of writing more CD formats (overburning and very big CD-Rs) and therefore seems to have better firmware/hardware than the Plex 8x. This recorder sometimes locks up if the laser reaches the physical end of the CD-R while writing the leadout. This is a drive problem. Plextor knows about this, but doesn't seem to be willing to change this behavior. Sorry."