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Lite-On Lite-On 52x32x52x CDRW
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Date of last review
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6
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4398
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08-17-2005
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100% of reviewers
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$41.67
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10.0
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Description:
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This is a relatively cheap CDRW that has fast speeds for a reader/writer. Cost is around $25-$39 USD and can be found for as little as $19.99 USD online (what I paid). The drive is auto-detected without problems as a CD-Rom drive by the following distros: RedHat9/Fedora, Mandrake9.2, ArchLinux, Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD and SuSE9.0. A simple edit of the /etc/fstab file to show the drive as 'iso8599' then allows it to be recognized by these distros as a CDRW. I've burned countless CD's (music, data & ISO's) using K3B without any problems. The only hitch with K3B is that it will only burn with this drive at a max speed of 16x but it more than gets the job done quickly.
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Keywords:
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CDRW Lite-On drives cd burner
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Connection Type:
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IDE
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04-01-2004, 10:42 AM
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#1
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Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, Cooker
Posts: 145
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.21-0.28, 2.4.22-28, 2.6.0-2, 2.6.2-3, 2.6.3-4, 2.6.3-7
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Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, 10.0
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I have the Lite-On LTR-52327S 52x32x52x CD-RW and have nothing but praise for this drive. Works flawlessly with K3B (0.9-11.6cvs) and with support for burn-proof, I haven't made a coaster yet. The speed of buring a 700MB CD is progressive; starts out around 20x and ends up at 48x-52x. But with lower speed rated CDs, the CD-RW burns accurately. It is set up as master on the secondary IDE and boots up any install CD without any quirks. Plays and reads any CD I throw at it.
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08-01-2004, 06:09 PM
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#2
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Registered: Dec 2003
Distribution: Debian-Sarge and Gentoo2004-3
Posts: 37
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $40.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.6-1.435.2.3
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Fedora Core 2
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I've had this drive for about four months now. I've used it under FC1, Mandrake 10 and now FC2 without any real problems. The only problem I've had is with audio CD's being scratchy for the last 1/3 of the disk--limit the burn speed to 8X--no more problem. I've burned ISO's at as fast as 48X and had them boot without any problems. As for as compatability goes I think it works better under Linux using K3B than it does under win98 using Nero.
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01-04-2005, 12:37 PM
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#3
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Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Debian Sarge
Posts: 169
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.10
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Debian Sid
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Love it, it woks without a hitch.
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04-12-2005, 05:16 PM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: Suse8.0
Posts: 4
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $49.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.8-24 athlon i386 GNU/linux
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SUSE 9l2
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Installed it myself - a new one for me - then with SUSE 8.0. Am now using SUSE 9.2. Runs like a charm.
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06-29-2005, 09:38 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Gentoo 64
Posts: 383
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $36.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.11-gentoo-r4
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Gentoo AMD64
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Price includes nextday postage and vat from ebuyer.
Its fast, sleek and noisy as hell. No, really, when its reading at full speed its pretty darn noisy, actually its not too bad its mostly air noise from the cd spinning, when I close the front of the case its negligable. -Just ripped a cd with it, playing music (as i am 24/7) quiet as can be, well you don't notice it with music and case closed-
It seems to read at good speeds and write at ~15x for me. I might try some ISOs rather than just audo to see if it gets higher when it doesn't have to keep stopping for each track.
This was plug&play, even with Gentoo. I plugged it in, booted up & burnt. No problems with K3b.
It is shorter than most drives though, by about 2 or 3" if this is of any interest to you.
Overall seems to be a very nice drive from the hammering I have given it so far.
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08-17-2005, 12:27 PM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Distribution: FC4
Posts: 3
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
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Distribution:
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RH8, RH9, FC3, FC4
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I've used this Lite-ON LTR-52327S to play music from audio CDs, burn and play mp3 files to/from CD-R and CD-RW discs, and to burn Linux distributions .iso files which I then used successfully to install those distributions. I've experienced no problem with this drive with xcdroast, k3b or any other utility/application - it is as plug 'n' play as can be.
As already mentioned above, the overall length of this drive is about an inch or so shorter than others. This allows me to install this drive in bays that other CD-RW drives I have cannot use due to physical interference with motherboard components.
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