NEC 3550A oem questions

[Chewy]

watch out for max speed and imgburn or nero, that drive will probably go up to 12 or 16x with that media, it's not a good idea

[Dr Klovernutz]

I just wanted to know if anyone else with this burner noticed this with their burned DVDs.

they verify fine and play fine.

[Chewy]

I just wanted to know if anyone else with this burner noticed this with their burned DVDs.

don't see it on my sony 8x dvd+r burned at 8x with my nec 3550
and same firmware

[Gary D]

or 16X Verbs+r

[Dr Klovernutz]

could this be from the burn speed changing during burning ?

If i run nero CD DVD speed what am i looking for?
what settings do i want to adjust?

[Chewy]

Doc,
the most important thing to remember with the nec 3550(and all newer
ones) is to limit burn speed to 8X max, at 12 and 16x certain rogue spikes
or clumps appear in the PIF graphs, their true cause has been the subject of much debate. At 8x this family of burners is in the top of the class.
Do a quality scan at 8x of one of the banded disks, do a burn at 8x and scan also. What speed have you been burning at?

[Dr Klovernutz]

I ran all of the tests, everything looked fine.
quality scan was 100%


I burn at 8X

The rings/ bands that i see are really only visible when i hold the dvd under a light.

[Dr Klovernutz]

here are pics

this DVD was burned at 12X(i didn't realize nero speed chose 12x until it was too late)

normally i burn my dvds at 8x

[Chewy]

scan one of your 8x burns, everything looked pretty good until it passed 8x speed, the MCC 003's don't seem to burn as good as the 16x mcc 004 from
the scans I have seen, verbatim seems to have gotten better.

[Dr Klovernutz]

already on it
here are the results

[daman]

Now if you're adding a dvd burner, we need to change some stuff,
with this setup I would suggest you pull your old optical drive and replace with
the dvd burner as master on the secondary mother board ide. If you keep the
other drive make sure the burner goes on top and is jumpered master and the
old drive is jumpered slave.

here's a picture(sort of)

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xxxxxxxxxxx other optical drive(slave)
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xxxxxxxxxx Motherboard

Hey chewy,,whats the avantage of having the burner on top,,with alot of
Dells you set your jumper to cabler select, i have mine on the bottom and
don't see any problems with it?????

[Chewy]

As stated in the FAQ's and almost everywhere else for the last few years,
it's better to have the superior device as master. Cable select is on the way out, Dell just doesn't know it yet, I have supplied plenty of references for this already. Typical Dellhell. Your mileage may always vary, but I don't feel like troubleshooting non standard setups. I have seen cables on backwards, and
idiots driving on the wrong side of the road, doesn't mean that it's gonna work all the time.

[daman]

As stated in the FAQ's and almost everywhere else for the last few years,

I know that,,and i've read it all,,just wanted your imput on the matter.........

[Chewy]

I know that,,and i've read it all,,just wanted your imput on the matter.........

cable select is supposed to take a special cable? That throws another monkey wrench into the equation. A lot of people go to 80 conductor cables for increased performance with new burners. When I add a burner to a dell
I always change everything around to master/slave and new cable.

[daman]

cable select is supposed to take a special cable? That throws another monkey wrench into the equation. A lot of people go to 80 conductor cables for increased performance with new burners. When I add a burner to a dell
I always change everything around to master/slave and new cable.

yup i think Dells come with the 40,, i juess i'll keep mine the way it is for now
it seems pretty fast and no problem with this set up..

thanks for your time