I have the DRU500 and have burned to DVD-R and DVD+RW. No problems. Haven't tried the +R or the -RW disks yet. I do have some blank +R disks but haven't gotten my movie to the point of burning to +R. Since I can only use this media once I want to make sure everything is perfect before sinking the $2 the disk cost me :)

I will probably stick with -R & +RW media since -R plays in all of my family's DVD players and +RW plays in my player and I can use this disk as a "scratch/experiment" disk.

I Have a DRX-500UL (the same as the A but with in a firewire box). I upgraded it to firmware 10f. It works fine with DVDA [1] on the +RW and +R disks.

[1] except for the known bugs in DVDA 1.0 as listed on these forums.

I have the Sony DRU500-AX. At this point in time DVD-Architect on my machine does not recognize it as a DVD-Recordable drive. I have messaged technical support in regard to this issue, but I sent the message during non-working hours.

I have a DRU 500 a with the latest firmwear and burn dvd-r's and dvd+rw's fine with it.

I have a DRU 500AX, and it works fine straight out of the box with all the DVD apps on my PC, including DVDA. My only complaint is that I don't use DVDA because of some iisues I have with navigation and text quality/menu interlacing.

I have burnt +RW's as test projects.

On my machine DVD-A will NOT recognize the DRU500-AX as a device. I talked with tech support at SF this morning and support confirmed that the AX is not supported presently by DVD-A . . .

Have DRX500-UL firewire version - upgraded to 1.0f - works great- My older model Panasonic A320 hasn't played most of the DVDs that I created with other software. But with DVD Arch I made 20 minute test disks with DVD-R and DVD+R media on the Sony and they both played in the A320. Really surprised that the +R played. Bought some new Ritek 4x DVD-R media last week, burned a 2 hour DVD+R at 4X and it played fine. Have had almost no problem between SONY 500UL and DVDArch.

Paul

I recently purchased a DRU500-AX and have had no problems with DVD Architect. I've burned both +R/+RW disks, but not -R/-RW. My OS is Windows XP home.

Thank you for the replies. It looks like Sony DRU-500AX works fine with DVD-A. My main interest is +R/+RW - and this seems to be fine.

This is interesting since some users are reporting that the Sony DRU-500AX is working with DVD-A.

Problems with my Sony DRU-500-AX have been solved. It seems that it must be plugged into the IDE port of the motherboard and NOT into a PCI-based IDE port. Burn to a DVD+R/W worked fine as far as I can tell.

I have a DRU500-AX on Windows XP. I've been able to burn a video DVD+RW (previously recorded as data disc) using Nero, and a video DVD-R using DVDa.

My current issue is DVDa can't seem to burn a previously written and erased DVD+RW disc. I've not investigated it just yet.

--svb

I find it interesting that SF lists the Sony DRU-500 as being dupported ont the DVDA page when only the Sony DRU-500A is supported. I might be stupid but when you say you support the DRU-500 doesn't that lead you to believe you support the A and AX? If I owned an auto repair shop and said I repaired Fords wouldn't you assume I fixed ALL fords? Dissappointed once again.

I have been having great difficulty burning a DVD. My whole computer freezes up during the buring process. I have the Sony DRU-500A with updatd firmware to (g) same problem existed with firmware (f). DVD-A use to freeze during preparing then that stopped now it freezes during the burning process, I can't even alt-ctrl-del. I am left with taking my prepared DVD file audio and video ts and using another application to burn my DVD without any freezing problems. Trying to burn using DVD-A is next to impossible for me at this point it freezes 9 out 0f 10 times. Only using smaller files can I get it to work. I'm trying to fit a 4.3 GB onto DVD is when I have the problem. I don't think its a system problem as my system is very new. I was trying to recreate a previous error message I was getting for a post I put up but couldn't recreate it because of the constant freezing, I have to maually restart (power on then off) to get out of it. Will DVD-A patch fix any of these freezing problems?

Asus A7N8X Deluxe Dual Channel
OCZ (256x2)512 DDR CL2
160 GB HD (120 Stripped Raid 0)
Sony DRU-500A

I would like to hear from SOFO on some of these supported drive issues. I realize they have thier hands full with this first update, but I want to know what the plans are for supporting the Sony DRU-500A and the Sony DRU-500AX since they listed the Sony DRU-500 as supported prior to release. Will this issue be corrected in the first update? I dropped $350 on this drive cause I thought it was supported by DVDA. I won't be buying a different drive...just different software.