about Optorite CW5205 ?

[wyf51888]

Just got this Optorite CW5205. Here's its detail:
DISCINFO VERSION : 1.5.5.9
VENDOR : OPTORITE
MODEL : CD-RW CW5205
REVISION : 180E
VENDOR SPECIFIC : 05/09/03
LOADING MECHANISM : Tray
NUMBER VOL. LEVELS : 256
BUFFER SIZE : 2048KB
INTERFACE : ATAPI
RPC2 SCHEME : NO
ANALOG AUDIO PLAY : YES
COMPOSITE OUTPUT : NO
DIGITAL PORT-PORT1 : YES
DIGITAL PORT-PORT2 : NO
READ UPC CODE : YES
MULTISESSION READ : YES
MODE 2 FORM 1 : YES
MODE 2 FORM 2 : YES
READ ISRC CODE : YES
READ BAD CODE : NO
BUFFER UNDER-RUN : YES
MT. RAINIER : NO
CAN READ CDR : YES
CAN READ CDRW : YES
CAN READ CDRM2 : YES
CAN WRITE CDR : YES
CAN WRITE CDRW : YES
CAN TEST WRITE : YES
CAN READ DVD-ROM : NO
CAN READ DVD-R : NO
CAN READ DVD-RW : NO
CAN READ DVD-RAM : NO
CAN READ DVD+R : NO
CAN READ DVD+RW : NO
CAN WRITE DVD-R : NO
CAN WRITE DVD-RW : NO
CAN WRITE DVD-RAM : NO
CAN WRITE DVD+R : NO
CAN WRITE DVD+RW : NO
MAX CDR READ SPEED : 52
MAX CDR WRITE SPEED: 52

After pluged in and power on, win2000 recognized it. And Alcohol recognized it too and burned a CDR successfully.
But Nero 5.5.9.9 didn't find this drive. There's only one choice: image recorder(virtual device).
Could anybody tell me what's wrong?

Is it better to burn with 40X for this drive, in order to make it durable?

And, I have a question about my old burner --- Verbatim 32X. It failed for every CDR recently in NERO 6 showing "Could not perform Fixation"....
I've tried changing different CDR, downgrade to Nero 5.5.9.9, and burn with Alcohol, nothing changed. But, it CAN burn cdrw !
Any idea about this?

Would appreciate any reply.
wyf.

[Bhairav]

Nero..you probably have too old a version to recognise the drive. Download a newer version.

[wyf51888]

Nero..you probably have too old a version to recognise the drive. Download a newer version.

You're 200% right. Nero 6.3.1.6 works fine.
Thanks!!!

[Scour]

Hi!

I had the MSI CR 52A2, an Optorite 5205 OEM and I can burn max. 16x with Nero 6.6.0.5. Can you burn at 52x with 6.3.1.6 (Disc at once)?

[wyf51888]

Sorry, didn't notice your post.

Yes. I can burn with 52X, with nero 6316. But I never tried "disc at once", what's the difference from "track at once"? Tell me sthg about it, I'll do a test.

[Scour]

Sorry, didn't notice your post.

Yes. I can burn with 52X, with nero 6316. But I never tried "disc at once", what's the difference from "track at once"? Tell me sthg about it, I'll do a test.

If you don´t burn Disc-at-once(DAO) you can´t overburn and your Audio-CD´s can´t be played on all CD-Players. With TAO (track-at-once) the laser was shut down after every track and make automatically a 2-second-pause between the tracks, with DAO all tracks will be written without interruption

[wyf51888]

Just burned a DATA-CD, DAO, 52x, 4 files, totally 697M, cheap CDR, everything is ok.
I'll do a AUDIO-CD test later when I get enough music.

[Scour]

Just burned a DATA-CD, DAO, 52x, 4 files, totally 697M, cheap CDR, everything is ok.
I'll do a AUDIO-CD test later when I get enough music.

How long took the burning process?

[wyf51888]

Just burned a DATA-CD, DAO, 52x, 4 files, totally 697M, cheap CDR, everything is ok.
I'll do a AUDIO-CD test later when I get enough music.

How long took the burning process?

Can't remember exactly. But with records in the log file, it took 2:37.

[Scour]

Hello!

That´s the time for 52x. Strange, it´s don´t possible with Nero 6.6.0.5