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Plextor PX-800A

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Plextor PX-800A

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
1	4775	10-06-2007

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
No recommendations	$62.00	5.0

Description:	Dual Layer DVD+-RW Burner # cdrecord -prcap Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR ' Identification : 'DVDR PX-800A ' Revision : '1.00' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A: Does read CD-R media Does write CD-R media Does read CD-RW media Does write CD-RW media Does read DVD-ROM media Does read DVD-R media Does write DVD-R media Does read DVD-RAM media Does write DVD-RAM media Does support test writing Does read Mode 2 Form 1 blocks Does read Mode 2 Form 2 blocks Does read digital audio blocks Does restart non-streamed digital audio reads accurately Does support Buffer-Underrun-Free recording Does read multi-session CDs Does read fixed-packet CD media using Method 2 Does not read CD bar code Does read R-W subcode information Does not return R-W subcode de-interleaved and error-corrected Does read raw P-W subcode data from lead in Does return CD media catalog number Does return CD ISRC information Does support C2 error pointers Does not deliver composite A/V data Does play audio CDs Number of volume control levels: 256 Does support individual volume control setting for each channel Does support independent mute setting for each channel Does not support digital output on port 1 Does not support digital output on port 2 Loading mechanism type: tray Does support ejection of CD via START/STOP command Does not lock media on power up via prevent jumper Does allow media to be locked in the drive via PREVENT/ALLOW command Is not currently in a media-locked state Does not support changing side of disk Does not have load-empty-slot-in-changer feature Does not support Individual Disk Present feature Maximum read speed: 8467 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Current read speed: 8467 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Maximum write speed: 8467 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Current write speed: 8467 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Rotational control selected: CLV/PCAV Buffer size in KB: 2048 Copy management revision supported: 1 Number of supported write speeds: 6 Write speed # 0: 8467 kB/s CAV (CD 48x, DVD 6x) Write speed # 1: 7056 kB/s CAV (CD 40x, DVD 5x) Write speed # 2: 5645 kB/s CAV (CD 32x, DVD 4x) Write speed # 3: 4234 kB/s CAV (CD 24x, DVD 3x) Write speed # 4: 2822 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 16x, DVD 2x) Write speed # 5: 1411 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 8x, DVD 1x) Supported CD-RW media types according to MMC-4 feature 0x37: Does write multi speed CD-RW media Does write high speed CD-RW media Does write ultra high speed CD-RW media Does write ultra high speed+ CD-RW media
Keywords:	DVD+-RW ATAPI
Connection Type:	ATAPI

Author

10-06-2007, 12:26 PM

aragon2

Registered: Sep 2006

Distribution: Debian

Posts: 1

Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: $62.00 | Rating: 5

Kernel (uname -r):	2.6.22-2-686
Distribution:	Debian Etch

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DVD-R Burning and Reading seems to be OK. I have not tested other media.

The drive is very loud, not suitable for watching movies or doing complicated work while it is working.

The drive provides a 'Silent Mode', but this can only be activated with Windows software -- according to:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=138061
http://qpxtool.sourceforge.net/problems.html

Plextor tries to prevent free software developers from solving this.

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