Hello,

I have used a cheap LITEON DVD-RW on a SPARC SB1500
( $79 )

It has one major fault, it cant read the DVD's it has written.
It gets repeated read errors when trying to boot solaris 10 U2 DVD.
I can read the DVD-R on other DVD/CD-RW combo drives,
but not on the unit which produced them - which is hillarious........

I need some advice on which DVD-RW/DVD-RAM DVD-DL-RW
to buy.

I dont care if its 5 times the price of the cheap junk the PC stores
sell to day . I want it to work !

Please advise which model to buy.

//Lars

On 12 Jul 2006 08:13:43 -0700
"tunla" <lars.tunkrans@bredband.net> wrote:

> I need some advice on which DVD-RW/DVD-RAM DVD-DL-RW
> to buy.
>
> I dont care if its 5 times the price of the cheap junk the PC stores
> sell to day . I want it to work !
>
> Please advise which model to buy.

I have used a number of LG super-multi drives (they write and read
(almost) all formats in existence) with great success (both the USB and
ATAPI versions). I paid only 37.50 Euro for the last batch.

--
Stefaan A Eeckels
--
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for
insects. -- Robert A. Heinlein

tunla wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have used a cheap LITEON DVD-RW on a SPARC SB1500
> ( $79 )
>
> It has one major fault, it cant read the DVD's it has written.
> It gets repeated read errors when trying to boot solaris 10 U2 DVD.
> I can read the DVD-R on other DVD/CD-RW combo drives,
> but not on the unit which produced them - which is hillarious........

that's odd. i have a Lite-On that works quite well. it even reads dual
layer discs that my other readers don't.

acd1: DVDR <LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S/KS04>

> I need some advice on which DVD-RW/DVD-RAM DVD-DL-RW
> to buy.
>
> I dont care if its 5 times the price of the cheap junk the PC stores
> sell to day . I want it to work !

that's kinda the problem. most of the expensive ones i've seen
(Panasonic and Sony) fail as often as the cheap ones.
more often than not the no-name drives in discount outlets are actually
Phillips, Sony, Pioneer, Panasonic, or Richo with a different "branded"
firmware. same goes for NICs as seen with Linksys, D-Link, Hawking, etc
all using the exact same chip. some suck worse than others in the
Windows world because you're relying on that company's developers to
produce a driver rather than 1 driver that works for all.

--
- - james <at> hal-pc.org - -
A deaf ear is the first symptom of a closed mind.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

tunla wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have used a cheap LITEON DVD-RW on a SPARC SB1500
> ( $79 )
>
> It has one major fault, it cant read the DVD's it has written.
> It gets repeated read errors when trying to boot solaris 10 U2 DVD.
> I can read the DVD-R on other DVD/CD-RW combo drives,
> but not on the unit which produced them - which is hillarious........
>
> I need some advice on which DVD-RW/DVD-RAM DVD-DL-RW
> to buy.
>
> I dont care if its 5 times the price of the cheap junk the PC stores
> sell to day . I want it to work !
>
> Please advise which model to buy.
>
> //Lars
>

*Avoid* the HP dvd840. Jorg has looked at my OpenSolaris system and
determined there is a bug in the firmware of the recorder. He did update
cdrecord in an attempt to sort it out but to date I am unable to use it
on Solaris to write CDs or DVD's.

It works fine on Windows of course but it is useless for Solaris at the
minute.

--
Dave K MCSE.

MCSE = Minefield Consultant and Solitaire Expert.

Please note my email address changes periodically to avoid spam.
It is always of the form: month-year@domain. Hitting reply will work
for a couple of months only. Later set it manually.

http://witm.sourceforge.net/ (Web based Mathematica front end)

In article <1152717223.472827.316030@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups .com>,
tunla <lars.tunkrans@bredband.net> wrote:
> I need some advice on which DVD-RW/DVD-RAM DVD-DL-RW
>to buy.

I've been happy with Plextor drives. Plextor distributes their firmware
updates w/o requiring a Windows installation and the drives can be flashed
with Joerg Schilling's pxupdate program

John
groenveld@acm.org

Hi,

tunla wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have used a cheap LITEON DVD-RW on a SPARC SB1500
> ( $79 )
>
> It has one major fault, it cant read the DVD's it has written.
> It gets repeated read errors when trying to boot solaris 10 U2 DVD.
> I can read the DVD-R on other DVD/CD-RW combo drives,
> but not on the unit which produced them - which is hillarious........
>
> I need some advice on which DVD-RW/DVD-RAM DVD-DL-RW
> to buy.
>
> I dont care if its 5 times the price of the cheap junk the PC stores
> sell to day . I want it to work !
>
> Please advise which model to buy.
>
> //Lars
>

I have a Plextor USB drive, works perfectly.

Since I have never read anything bad about Plextor, and having replaced
alot of Liteons I found a $30-50 extra for a Plextor be nothing to worry
about.


/michael

John D Groenveld wrote:
> In article <1152717223.472827.316030@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups .com>,
> tunla <lars.tunkrans@bredband.net> wrote:
> > I need some advice on which DVD-RW/DVD-RAM DVD-DL-RW
> >to buy.
>
> I've been happy with Plextor drives. Plextor distributes their firmware
> updates w/o requiring a Windows installation and the drives can be flashed
> with Joerg Schilling's pxupdate program

Yes I can order Plextor PX-760A for $100 locally.
They say on their web that it has a "premium positioning drive"

Anyone know what or why this is better than others ?

//Lars

John D Groenveld wrote:
> In article <1152717223.472827.316030@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups .com>,
> tunla <lars.tunkrans@bredband.net> wrote:
> > I need some advice on which DVD-RW/DVD-RAM DVD-DL-RW
> >to buy.
>
> I've been happy with Plextor drives. Plextor distributes their firmware
> updates w/o requiring a Windows installation and the drives can be flashed
> with Joerg Schilling's pxupdate program
>
> John
> groenveld@acm.org


Hi,

I now got the Plextor 760A drive installed in the SB1500
and it does boot from the DVD-R Solaris10u2 media.

Thanks
//Lars