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Postby vsekh on Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:55 pm

I have used the utility and backed up the firmware. I emailed you a copy of the file.

Do I use mktflash or flashfix to install the original firmware if I need to go back after flashing using a Liteon firmware?
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Postby vsekh on Sun Feb 22, 2004 6:20 pm

One more thing I noticed is the DVD Read speed maximum is 6x. My DVD ripping with dvdshrink starts at 3x speed and slow increases.

Anyone know why it is so slow?

Now I'm wondering if a upgrading to the latest Liteon firmware will even help here. I'm going to return this drive if it is really slow with dvd ripping and continue using my Liteon 166S.
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Postby vsekh on Tue Feb 24, 2004 12:14 am

I updated the firmware to NK06, but it was still slow at ripping dvds. I returned the Memorex and will stick with the Liteon 166S and 52327S as separate drives instead for now. I was afraid of getting the 52x32x52x16 Liteon Combo thinking that it was going to be slow at ripping dvds and that is exactly what happened.
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Postby dhc014 on Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:06 am

The rip speed for recordable DVD discs is 6x, I think.

54x reading/writing firmwares will be available for the TDK OEM LTR-52327S and the SOHC-5232K drives.

http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthre ... forumid=73
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Postby vsekh on Tue Feb 24, 2004 10:43 pm

The Liteon 166S dvdrom starts out ripping at 4x and quickly moves to 7x, then slow goes past 8x. The 52x32x52x16 combo drive starts at 3x and barely finishes upto 5x. Hopefully the newer combo drive will rip DVDs faster.
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Postby yi_hsun on Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:41 pm

vsekh, the slow dvd ripping 52325216 combo drive you're referring to LiteOn SOHC-5232K or the Memorex drive?

thx.
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Postby vsekh on Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:55 pm

The memorex is a rebadged Liteon SOHC-5232K.
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Postby minchin on Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:50 pm

Both yi_hsun and I seem to get pretty damn good ripping speed from the drive.....
See my tests at:
http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=14054

Not very experience with testing but with single layer, it is quite fast....

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Postby Hobs on Tue Mar 02, 2004 3:03 am

arrgh! i just got one and on my verbatim cdr's 52x (mistubishi chemicals) they get a shitload of c2 errors at the end of the disc, which i never got on my ltc-48161h or my ltr-52246s, usually an average c1 error rate of 0.020 on both drives

not happpywith the sohc-5232k :cry:
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Postby Hobs on Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:16 am

hmm... tried some of my old verbatim 48x media and it did better than the old drive i think verbatims quality isnt as good as it use to be :(
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Postby yi_hsun on Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:41 pm

Review of the drive @ cdr-info.com,

http://www.cdr-info.com/Sections/Articl ... bo&index=0
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