MAGIC SPIN DVD+-RW/R/8X+4X-

by **ETP** on Sat Dec 13, 2003 8:50 am

Just had a heck of a sale at Office max. Got this generic drive for $119 after rebates. Out the door for $149.
OK! Who makes this drive? Nero shows generic! Anyone have one of these?

by **NoSmartz** on Sat Dec 13, 2003 11:04 am

I/O magic
here's there website http://www.iomagic.com

by **tonto** on Sat Dec 13, 2003 3:13 pm

The drive is an Optorite DD0401(model number on the drive). Very nice and well worth the money. I guess the sales tax in your area must be lower. In my part of Texas it's 8.25% mine was $162.00 out the door.
But, once the last rebate gets here (6-8 weeks......sure) then it won't be so bad!

by **ETP** on Sat Dec 13, 2003 3:58 pm

Hey Tonto! Have you did a flash yet from optowrite? Mine is a little finiky on cd-r media and record speed. Also in Nero express it locks in at 4x. Nero burning rom will let me burn up to 40X from the HD with some media. Also my number of copies to record has disappeared!

by **ETP** on Sat Dec 13, 2003 4:07 pm

Forgot the tax! $149 plus tax!
OK! It was the Dell DUDE! IDE's were not all set to auto. Wow! What a difference. This 8X drive so far is working fine.

by **Bud-man** on Mon Dec 22, 2003 8:38 pm

If this is a optorite drive why cant i flash the latest 120e firmware, i/o magic list NO firmware upgrades at ALL, i trashed a optorite drive so i bought this $150 at officemax with $50 rebate

by **Ian** on Mon Dec 22, 2003 9:00 pm

Yeah, I've heard that I/OMagic changed the ID string so OptoRite's firmware updates wont work. There might be hacked updater out there somewhere.. anyone know?

by **Bud-man** on Tue Dec 23, 2003 12:12 pm

well ive got it to load the 120e firmware, just hate the 4x slow burning first 30% then kicks into 8x

by **Bud-man** on Tue Dec 23, 2003 12:14 pm

Use this firmware...when loading it says firmware yyyy, ignore that after use infotool and shows 120e used to be 110e...........
http://www.optorite.com/DD0401_win_120E.zip

by **nicktg** on Tue Dec 23, 2003 9:04 pm

I got a MagicSpin. They sell both the MagicSpin and the I/O Magic. From what I read here I deduced that the I/O Magic is the rebagded Optorite. The MagicSpin's Part Number is R-DVDRW8D, and in DVDINfoPro only appears as Generic DVD burner. It's DVD -/+ 8x. Does anybody know who makes this or if there is a way to tell. There is also the word AccessTek Inc, under a sticker.

by **ETP** on Wed Dec 24, 2003 9:36 am

I believe it says 401 on the back of the case. Which means it is an optowrite. 40X for cd burn is very weak. I have found you need to kick it down a notch for a good burn.

by **Bud-man** on Wed Dec 24, 2003 5:29 pm

Accesstek and Optorite are the same, it has hdburn, also ive succesfully flashed the optorite 120e firmware as stated above...ITS A DDO401!!!!!!, i have the magicspin model. :lol:

by **ETP** on Wed Dec 24, 2003 6:11 pm

Hey bud man! Does it work better after the flash?

by **Bud-man** on Thu Dec 25, 2003 11:59 am

Now 130e firmware is out!!! Merry Christmas!!, but optorites .exe firmware package wont update it due to .bin error,possibly listed as "generic dvd-rw drive" in device manager they used to give you the bin and a flash program, got smart and made it a .exe loader, anyone know how to extract the .bin file from there exe?, tried isobuster...no luck.
130e shows -R Sony 's burning at 8x!!!!!!!!, possibly beat liteon, plextor, following NEC's 2500 series drive with -R 8x burning.
I'm going to play around this morning with the firmware.

by **ETP** on Fri Dec 26, 2003 10:19 am

Keep us posted Bud Man! If you live through it I will give it a try :lol:

by **Bud-man** on Sat Dec 27, 2003 8:40 am

Well i fried it trying to flash to 130e, spent a few hours trying to recover on 3 diff puters, no luck bio's wont recognize it, dead as a door nail they say...........
Well i brought it back to officemax got my money back and got a plextor 708a, in 2 weeks i owned 4 burners, a liteon 411s, plextor 708a...looked used so i brought it back week ago, then the magicspin, now i'm happily back to the wicked fast plextor, starts at 6x then after 18%flings into 8x speed...awesome...no burner like it.
Well looks like i'm hangin back in the plex forum..cya boys
btw....i own a fried optorite ddo203 thats in the rma process, tried to flash 8x firmware in her..now dont try that! :-?

by **ETP** on Sat Dec 27, 2003 8:08 pm

What a bummer man! Mine is working ok, so I guess i will leave well enough alone. Another sale at OFFICS MAX. 8X + for $79 after rebate.

by **Menehune** on Sun Dec 28, 2003 4:35 am

I have the MagicSpin 8x. I had to use the OEM version bios 130I. I flashed it just fine but DVD Identifier says it no longer supports HD Burn. I fired up Nero and sure enough I have no more HD Burn tab to select. So I flashed back to 120E and it shows HD Burn support again. I like this drive since my other DVD writer is DVD+RW 2.4x but the problem I have is that the disks it creates aren't playable in my old Toshiba DVD Player or and old 2x DVD-ROM from Creative. The other writer I have (NEC 1000A) will write the very same image and work great in both the old machines. I'm using the same media and writing the same speed but they wont work at all. :evil:

by **ETP** on Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:59 am

There is a rumor of a new firmware that does 8X- to come out soon. Any info on this?

by **Ian** on Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:39 am

EARLTHEPEARL wrote:There is a rumor of a new firmware that does 8X- to come out soon. Any info on this?

It was supposed to be out last month. However, I haven't heard a peep about it.

by **ETP** on Sat Apr 24, 2004 8:43 am

Anyone try the recent Optorite update on this unit?