Pureghetto Posted July 16, 2003 Posted July 16, 2003 This is a review of my cd-rw (or more specifically, the exact same model, not my specific example) ever since I bought it (months ago, so I can't return it....not that I could anyway, since I live 400 km from the place I bought it from), it has not performed at whatever it claims to. It burns cds at 32x, reads at what I believe to be 1500KB/s max, and oddly enough, only functions in PIO mode, not UDMA. I've tried desparately to get it to register as UDMA mode. I've managed to get it to UDMA2 once, but it didnt' transfer any faster. Today, I bought two 80 pin IDE cables supporting UDMA mode, and there has been no change (though my 16x DVD drive is transferring at 2500-3500 KB/s instead of 1800KB/s) from the review link above: Supports UDMA 33 so anyway, two questions: 1) can I fix my "52x" cdrom drive? 2) if I can't what's a decent, UDMA supporting cdrom that you would recommend getting? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
creager Posted July 16, 2003 Posted July 16, 2003 im not sure but i know for my hdd to go at max speed it needed an ATA133 cable so mabe make sure your using one? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pureghetto Posted July 17, 2003 Posted July 17, 2003 how would I do that? I bought a new cable today (see above for the cable I'm using). What's an ATA133 cable? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishop245 Posted July 17, 2003 Posted July 17, 2003 i beleive if it supports udma then it should also support ata133 but i could be wrong Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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