Plextor USB drive

doctorfish wrote on 10/30/2002, 5:38 PM

Does anybody use this burner with CD-A?

PlexWriter 48/24/48U Hi-Speed USB CD-RW drive.

I'm thinking about getting a fast one and USB and Firewire
drives are very appealing.

If not this one, are there other such models working with
CD-A?

Thanks,

Dave

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captn_spalding wrote on 10/31/2002, 8:10 AM

Hi,

I use a plextor 24/10/40U and have had no problems. No coasters, no headaches. However, it is not functioning with the CDA 5 beta. CDA does not even recognize that it is on the system. The CDA beta support team has been very responsive, but not yet successful. The plextor has worked fine with all other burn software I've used. (Including various packages on a mac)

..spalding

doctorfish wrote on 10/31/2002, 5:10 PM

Thanks captn.

I've herad too that a lot of people had (maybe still have)
problems burning with Plextor drives from Vegas.
Maybe I'll check out a few other brands.

Dave

captn_spalding wrote on 11/1/2002, 6:14 AM

Dave,

Updated information. The problem appears not to be with the plextor, but perhaps the Adaptec USB2/PCI expansion card or its drivers. The plextor works fine (although only at 5x) when plugged into the onboard USB 1.1 ports that are part of the Compaq mother board. CDA support and I are looking into updated drivers for the adaptec. This is all very confusing as nothing else is having problems with the adaptec USB ports.

...spalding

captn_spalding wrote on 11/2/2002, 7:54 PM

problem was resolved by downloading latest driver for usb2 from adaptec. plextor seems to be running fine now

..spalding

doctorfish wrote on 11/3/2002, 2:01 AM

thanks for the info captn.

Dave