News of CD-R/CD-RW Drives

CDRLabs has taken a long overdue look at the retail version of Lite-On's 52/24/52 CD-RW, the LTR-52246S. While affordably priced, this drive sports some of the fastest speeds available. The LTR-52246S reads and writes at 52x, rewrites at 24x and rips audio CD's at a blazing 48x. The drive also has has features like Lite-On's SMART-BURN and SMART-X technologies and support for the Mt. Rainier format.

In this review we'll take a closer look at ...

Does anyone knows if this is an OEM Lite-On LTR-52246S? Can this drive be updated with Lite-On firmware?

Is there any utilities to make a backup of the firmware on a CDR/RW?

Thanks,
Steve :wink:

I bought a CenDyne 52x24x52 (Lite-On), a BusLink 52x24x52(AOpen), and a Pacific Digital 52x24x52 (Top-G) from Staples and OfficeMax last several weeks. Here is the comparison of them on VCD or Music CD copy. I use single CD-RW for both reading and writing. The software I used were NTI, Nero, CloneCD.

Three of them have the same writing speed - about 2 min to write a 420MB VCD, which is multimedia audow CD. However, Lite-On ...

I reflashed my Memorex 52/24/52x drive to the LiteOn Firmware and now it won't support CD-TEXT. Is there any way for me to flash it back?

I'm used to getting TY made Fujis in the familiar screw-top cake box.
But I just saw some 48x Fujis at bestbuy ($9.99 for 100 after rebate), package says made in Japan, but NOT in the normal TY style cake box. Anyone know who made these? I'm scared they might just be mislabeled Taiwanese....

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Mount Rainier explanation
Mount Rainier enables native OS support of data storage on CD-RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and allows the replacement of the floppy.
This is done by having defect management in the drive, by making the drive 2k addressable, by using background formatting, and by standardizing both command set and physical layout. The new standard is promoted by Compaq, Microsoft, Philips, and Sony and is supported by over 40 ...

Hello!

Ian, can you make this in future reviews?

1. Show the lead-out of the tested discs, because that shows, if this prodisc an older one (Leadout 79.59.74) or the newest one (79.59.72); same Ritek: old (79m 59s 74f or (79m 59s 73f ) or new ((79m 59s 70f )

2. Can you show the C1/C2-Error-tests from all used media? Or just the write the highest/average C1/C2-errors with the used media?

I know, it will ...

After hundreds of trials of flashing&modifcation. I found it is not true for upgrade buslink 48x12x50(aopen oem with justlink tech) to 52x24x52.
After failure of using aopen firewire 52x24x52 v.1.50.
I reflashed the drive with the aopen v1.40 one which this website provided
aopen oem firmware1.40.
I also found there're some bugs in the file.After flashing, My system become unstable and got crash everytime I run the Neoinfotool and drivespeed program.
Can anyone noticed about ...

can anybody tell me what cd protections this burner can burn?

can it burn savedisk 2.51?

Thanks