Testing the Benq 1650 and more

[katzdvd]

who releases firmware updates?

What I meant was;

why does the benq site not have the most recent updates? You would think that the manufacture would have them...

I use DVDD or IMGburn to check the firmware vers., & that is how I noticed that Benqs' site was outdated...

[Chewy]

which benq site? There are lame sites all over the world for a lot of companies, often way out of date. Even our official firmware site is full of broken links. This idea of using dvdd or imgburn to update your firmware
is broken. Keeping one site updated is hopeless with firmware changing so often.

[katzdvd]

http://www.benq.us/serviceandsupport/Drivers/drivers.cfm?product=816

Latest on Benq site is Version: BCDB 04-13-2006.

rpc1.org: Version BCHB May 11, 2006

This idea of using dvdd or imgburn to update your firmware
is broken

how do you determine the latest firmware update?

[Chewy]

XXAX
XXBX
XXCX
XXDX
etc

[NightTran]

I may sound dom but what is BTC ?

Thanks

[Chewy]

http://www.digitimes.com/print/a20060627A5017.html

[locoeng]

When scanning with the BenQ I have more options than I did with my NEC, what would be the situation where you would scan 8X P-CAV. I my real question is what does P-CAV mean, versus just an 8X scan?

[katzdvd]

chewy; have been viewing threads on another forum, & they keep making references to this:

Writing strategy of BCHB Firmware seems to be very very bad!!!

Have you heard anything about that? They all talk about going back to BCDB. I can't say that my burns have been bad with the BCHB - I am turning out some of the best ones yet, since using ty & good verbs!

[Chewy]

loco, ask geno

katz, many people switch around, burn one disk and come to a conclusion
half of them don't even know how to flash or build a computer

[katzdvd]

half of them don't even know how to flash or build a computer

hee hee!

[katzdvd]

I should stop hanging out in "dark" places...

chew, I fould this - what do you think?

Liteons are UDMA4 whereas BenQs are UDMA2.

Meaning BenQ's are limited to slower transfer rate speeds?

[Chewy]

I should stop hanging out in "dark" places...

chew, I fould this - what do you think?


Meaning BenQ's are limited to slower transfer rate speeds?

yes dma cripples them to only 33MB/s or 24X burn speed, the liteons
with dma 4 are twice as fast at 66MB/s or 48X dvd burn speed

of course since optical drives have already reached the threshold of rpm's,
I am not sure I want to be in the room when you spin a liteon up 3 times faster.

now the burst from a 2 meg cache would last how long at 33 or 66 MB/s ?

[katzdvd]

I am not sure I want to be in the room when you spin a liteon up 3 times faster

what about a SATA DVDR drive; any experience with those? your thoughts?

specs from a $90 plextor;

data transfer rate -
CD Family: 7200 KB/s
DVD Family: 21600 KB/s

huh? that's slower than udma2?

now the burst from a 2 meg cache would last how long at 33 or 66 MB/s

guess we need a bigger software buffer...

[Chewy]

the plextor specs are real specs not burst across interface specs like
sata 1 of 150MB/s

ide is being phased out, serial will take over even dvd burners, no more pio
mode, serial/sata is a better bus.

external serial hard drives work just as good as internal ones, we still need
external dvd serial burners, they will come!

[katzdvd]

would a sata burner(s) connected to a RAID controller card be a good idea/setup?