soup's quandry

[soup]

There is no room at the Inn. My case will take 4 optical drives & as you can see from my sig, it's full. The PX-755A that I am trying out to replace the LH-20A1S, I kind of like for certain media. I am going to swap it out & give the PX-810SA a shot next but I am also waiting on a SH-203B as well. So here's my problem, if I like them all, that would be 3 SATA optical drives & 3 SATA hard drives, plus the fact that I would have to take out 2 of the existing optical drives, (I can't decide what 2 either). I have the SATA ports (6 total). Any ideas on the best combination here, any & all input would be appreciated. I am going to attach some info here but if some more is needed let me know.

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[Chewy]

looks like the 4 intel sata's will run 4 sata burners

there is hope yet, esata cases are coming on the market


you really just need to build another computer tho

2 ide's ?

with ide emulation those reports don't tell much

a real list might help?

the promise is a pci sata card?

[soup]

2 ide's ?

2 plus 4xSATA

the promise is a pci sata card?

Model
Brand PROMISE
Model SATA300 TX2plus
Specifications
Type SATA II
Internal Connectors 2 SATA 3Gb/s Ports plus 1 Ultra ATA/133 channel
Interface PCI
Transfer Rate Up to 266MB SATA, Up to 133MB EIDE
Operating Systems Supported Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
Red Hat Linux
SuSE Linux
Linux open source code
Features
Features Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
SATA Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ)
Supports Serial ATAPI devices
Flexible future-proof upgrade for users with motherboards that only have a PCI interface
Packaging
Package Contents SATA300 TX2plus
Driver Disk
User Manual
2 x SATA Cable

a real list might help?

How?

Is the only way to get you a real list, looking in the case & telling you what's hooked up to the board & what's hooked up to the Promise card?

[Chewy]

well you might as well have the plex/pioneer sata drive in the case for burning dual layer

the samsung 203 is a must also, I would want another drive to scan with besides the 203

the LG as a reader? and possibly a lower quality media burner?

the liteon is not burning well?

[NightTran]

I think you have two IDE for burner and four sata drive ( for HD ) look like mine, I keep Sata for HD and IDE for burners if you have more then two make them as usb or wirefire

[soup]

the liteon is not burning well?

Had a couple of problems with it last week, one of which was not recognizing any discs at all, so after trying a couple of things, I read a post, shut it down for half an hour & it came back when I restarted my PC, but who knows for how long. I would like to keep the LG, but I also like the SH-S162L for scanning. From my research, the PX-755A (SATA) is a Plextor drive, so maybe I will follow NightTran's advice & put it in an external case to join the PX-716A. It also depends how the Plex/Pioneer PX-810Sa performs as well.

@NightTran, currently 3xSATA hard drives, 1xWestern Digital hard drive, 1xSATA burner & 2xSamsung plus 1xLG burners.

[Chewy]

the plex 755 is a sata?

[soup]

the plex 755 is a sata?

Yes.

From ImgBurn: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-755A 1.08 (ATA)

PX-810SA:

[NightTran]

If I were you I would hook up one Samsung and LG to the IDE, three sata HD and the Plex 755, the western digital the other samsung and the plex 716 to external

[Chewy]

the 755A is the pata, the 755SA is the sata(just has a bridge patched on to it)

so if your case was bigger you could have 2 sata hard drives on the promise, one sata hd on the intel, leaving 3 sata for optical and 4 pata's

[soup]

The plan for the SH-S182D was to go in to my daughter's machine. Ever scanned wth an external drive?

[Chewy]

I don't like usb2, the cheap usb2/firewire cases from newegg we only used with hard drives, many people with your predicament over at cdfreaks are buying a prolific chipset case and doing great with usb2?

[NightTran]

The plan for the SH-S182D was to go in to my daughter's machine. Ever scanned wth an external drive?

should be close to the same

[soup]

Thanks guys. Well I swapped out the PX-755SA & put in the PX-810SA, just trying it out now. Preview of the first burn, set it for 18X on a Sony Dvd-R, made in Japan, MID=TYG03, (because it doesn't freakin "BOOKTYPE"). Reached about 17.1 max & that was a long way in to the burn. Basically no go with PlexTools for this drive though. It also doesn't scan. Chipset is supposed to be NEC, from what I read.

[Chewy]

are you sure about the booktyping?

check with cdspeed?