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Lite-On LTR-52327S in this day and age

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Postby CowboySlim on Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:01 pm

Oh, oh, miscommunication, MR. Yes, I do use the 32xers in that machine, but at 24x.

Apologies for not noting the speed at which they are used.

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Postby MediumRare on Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:32 pm

Slim- even 24x is something I can't do. Like I said, my burner tried to write them at 2x and didn't succeed, so 24x is pretty good. Maybe I'll have to crossflash to 52246S firmware and try again. Which firmware are using?

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Postby CowboySlim on Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:53 pm

Actually, MR, I don't know what speed it burns at, but it seems OK.

FW:6S0D

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Postby MediumRare on Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:19 am

6S0D is the second-last version for that drive. I'm using SS0E at present, but will give SS0C a try tonight (same release date as 6S0D, but for the 48246S).

This is all just out of curiousity :D - I only have one of these 32x RW's (still virgin).

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Postby dodecahedron on Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:19 pm

i finally got around to installing my 2nd (black) LTR-52327S.

well, i discovered that, unfotunately, it's one of the 2nd revesion, without the EEPROM. came with firmware QS5A (the latest). which means no QS0B for this drive! :(

here's some scans of discs burned on the new one and also on the old one for comparison.
all discs are Verbatim DataLife Pastels (yellow color), 48x, 700MB, Taiyo Yuden 97m24s01f.

on the whole they seem much the same. the old drive does better at 52, the new one better at 16x. in any case all burns are good.
the dip at the end of the burn speed on the new drive when burning at 52x - that's concering though (it's repeatable - happened on 2 discs).
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10-February-2006_11_21_LITE-ON_LTR-52327S_QS0B_scan+write.png
new drive (QS5A), burn @ 16x
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old drive (QS0B), burn @ 16x
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10-February-2006_10_53_LITE-ON_LTR-52327S_QS0B_scan+write.png
new drive (QS5A), burn @ 52x
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LITE-ON_LTR-52327S_QS0B_28-August-2005_12_20_scan+write.png
old drive (QS0B), burn @ 52x
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Postby MediumRare on Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:36 pm

All those scans look pretty good (other than the "hair" on the reading speed curve)- the difference may be normal variation from disc to disc.

Incidentally, SS0C didn't help on my 32x RW's either. They just aren't recognized on a drive that doesn't support UltraSpeed+ media.

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Postby dodecahedron on Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:39 pm

well, contraty to some reports i've seen about problems with 32x CDRW media in LTR-52327S, mine work just fine.
when creating CDSpeed test CDs and scanning them, i occationally got a few C2 errors. but never when i burned actual data backup.
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Postby MediumRare on Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:48 pm

That's fine- it is a 52327S drive, so it should be able to write to them. Mine is a LTR-48246S, which doesn't have the UltraSpeed-Plus capability. That's why it surprised me that Slim could write them with his 52246S.

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Postby dodecahedron on Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:45 am

well, maybe you should consider cross-flashing your drive to a 52327S. :D
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Postby CowboySlim on Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:47 pm

MediumRare wrote:That's fine- it is a 52327S drive, so it should be able to write to them. Mine is a LTR-48246S, which doesn't have the UltraSpeed-Plus capability. That's why it surprised me that Slim could write them with his 52246S.

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Gee, that was forever ago.
Do you want me to check it again?
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Postby Bhairav on Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:45 pm

dodecahedron wrote:well, maybe you should consider cross-flashing your drive to a 52327S. :D


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