HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4040B<\/b><\/a>. (A joint venture between LG and Hitachi.)<\/p>\nI plugged it in on my secondary IDE cable, as the slave to my Sony CRX104E 8x4x32 CD burner. Both drives were set to Cable Select<\/i> mode. BIOS detection took extra long, and its name was some weird characters. Later I found there was only one drive in Windows XP, and although a CD-ROM was placed in both drives, nothing appeared.<\/p>\n
I then swapped it so the DVD burner was master and CD burner slave, with the appropriate manual jumper settings. It worked! Of course, Ahead Nero<\/b> was already registered to the CD burner only, so I used Pinnacle’s InstantDVD+CD<\/b> software for the DVD burner.<\/p>\n
I burnt one CD-R with the DVD burner, and it worked well. I have yet to buy any blank DVD media. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
As a CD burner it’s rated 24x12x32, reading DVDs at 12x. It writes DVD-RAMs at 3x, DVD+RWs at 2.4x, DVD-RWs at 2x and DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs at 4x. Of course, a DVD’s 4x is different from a CD’s 4x… a DVD’s 1x is 1385 Kilobytes per second, while a CD’s 1x is a mere 150 Kilobytes per second. Hence, burning a DVD-R at 4x would be 5540 Kilobytes per second. Divide that by 150 Kilobytes per second, and it’s equivalent to burning a CD at 37x.<\/p>\n
I don’t really have any practical use for a DVD burner… I got it cheap just for the heck of it, and as a status symbol. \ud83d\ude42 I had a few DVDs to play anyway, and I’d probably back up my huge MP3 collection on two DVD+RWs.<\/p>\n
Oh, and I used DVD Region Free<\/b> to circumvent the possible regional problems related to DVDs. Sweet. However, playing Metallica – St. Anger<\/b> original DVD had some problems – at quieter parts, the sound would disappear halfway, as if the sound moved to another channel. (I have 2 cheap speakers on a Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1<\/b> soundcard.) Even choosing stereo<\/b> Dolby Digital in the menu made no difference.<\/p>\n
Why not be happy with my CD burner? Well, a blank DVD-R still costs less than 7 CD-Rs of the same capacity. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
On a side note, my dad’s Relisys 1569<\/b> 15″ CRT monitor is FANTASTIC<\/b>. I never knew until I was reinstalling Windows 98 SE on it. It could go 1024×768 at 85 Hertz and 1280×1024 at 60 Hertz, or a maximum of 69 Kilohertz! Such high frequency ratings are only supported on 17″ CRTs! I personally can’t stand anything below 85 Hertz so this was really neat. I wonder if their 17″ and 19″ CRT monitors have high frequencies too. (Anybody know any monitor that can do at least a 102 Kilohertz vertical refresh?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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