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Posted: **Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:26 pm**

Hi,

I've been looking for a DVD writer that could read 8 cm DVD-RAMs. I have searched the product descriptions from all major manufacturers but hardly anyone mentions 8 cm media at all. Plextor is the only one I have found that mentions it explicitly and it seems only their BlueRay drives support 8 cm. That's overkill for my purposes. Sony NEC OptiArc has a side remark on one of its products that 8 cm disks are only supported when mounted horizontally. Unfortunately, that drive is not available from my preferred supplier. Any suggestions?

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:16 pm**

Any DVD Ram drive should be able to read and write to the 8 cm discs.

Posted: **Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:50 pm**

Yeah, well, the Samsung drive I bought now does support it. The really old LG DVD reader I had previously does not. Plextor states that they do not support 8 cm DVD-RAM for most of their drives, which caused my doubts in the first place. But since they are moving out of the business I suppose that is not really relevant anymore.