best brand of cd-drive for ripping

[Spoon-]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

I would not like to guess.

[KOF]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

Yes, if detects c2 (not right at start of search, but say in the middle) then c2 is working.

Spoon,
I'm planing to buy the internal CD drive from plextor "PLEXTOR 230A" and I found this site http://www.supermediastore.com/plext...te#description

can you click on it please. This is cool the Supermediastore CD Duplicator built-in Plextor PX-230A ....has PX-230A cd drive as its cd duplicator. and also has a USB/FireWire for pc connection. Do you think i buy one it will work with my pc connected throught an usb or firewire cable..?

[Spoon-]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

Yes, if detects c2 (not right at start of search, but say in the middle) then c2 is working.

[Porcus]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

The answer is only probably. It depends on your MOBO and what other software you might have on your machine.

The only bullet proof way I have found to guarantee c2 detection is with a PCI bus IDE add in card and an an 80 wire IDE cable to an IDE drive set to master.

:sad: I have a PX-230A in shipment, and use a laptop ... so my question is: If I link it up by way of IDE-to-USB and test it with a scratched CD, and it detects some C2 errors -- will I then be certain that it will have full C2 support?

"None" is better than "limited", I guess.

[Spoon-]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

With C2 pointers on, there is no pass 2, unless you enable an ultra pass.

Try testing for the cache size, it should be around 580KB, setting 1024KB is a good safe one.

[KOF]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

It is likely that the FUA test is afalse positive, AFAIK only plextors are FUA, so I would disable that and instate a cache size.

Ok thanks..

So i have instate a cache size like how much? can you give the number?

also what about the other questions.
One more thing Why it's only doing Pass ripping 1 it should 2 right? I have 12.2

[Spoon-]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

It is likely that the FUA test is afalse positive, AFAIK only plextors are FUA, so I would disable that and instate a cache size.

[KOF]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

FUA is not used on 230a, any of the above you listed will be accepted.

Spoon:

Below are the technical information from my drive:


Manufacturer: OEM
CD Drive: CD-ROM F564E
Firmware: 2.00
Serial: BTC
Maximum Speed: 8467 KB/sec (x47)
Current Speed: 0 KB/sec (x0)
Spin-down After: 8 minutes
Buffer Size: 128 KB
Accurate Stream: Yes
C2 Error Pointers: Yes
Reads ISRC: Yes
Reads UPC: Yes

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Sample offset: +12
Communication: [SCSI PASS TRHOUGH (SPT]

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Secure Option:

Secure ripper is enabled.
Maximun Re-Reads: 34 times
Set Drive Speed: (Maximun)


*Drive Read Cache: (none)
Clear Read Cache with FUA is on
C2 Error Pointers for Error Detection is on

*When i clicked on "auto Detect icon" FUA AND C2 were the only ones that auto detect nothing for Read Cache:
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No here are my questions:

Is my drive configurated right?
Do I need to put any number in the "Drive Read Cache: (none)" like you said to the other user?
Do I need to buy a Plexter CD Drive? _ well this is an optional question..
PC info: emachine T3085 i also have a second drive (NEC DVD_RW ND 2500A] do you think because is this a brand name cd drive do i need to chose this instead?
I tried the Nec Drive but doesn't give me a C2 pointer, FUA, and Read Cache.

Thank you for all your help...

[Nubben]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

Phil,

Yes, it's a USB drive.

On a separate note for Mac users: it doesn't work using VMWare Fusion - the CD's just doesn't show up in dBpa.

I have created a Bootcamp partition and it works great when booting into Win. I have yet to try using Fusion utilising the Bootcamp partition though.

Hope this helps.

Nubben

[pls1]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

Nubben:

Would you please confirm that this Samsung uses the USB interface.

Thanks,

Phil

[Nubben]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

I have the Samsung SE-S204N which supports C2 pointers and does not cache audio. Works great.

PS. I am not willing to shell out the money for a Plextor - therefore the cheaper Samsung ($90).

[KOF]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

I am not sure if the 712uf would provide c2 pointers.

so wich of all PLEXTOR cd/dvd (external USB/firewire) would provide everthing.

caching: YES
Accurate Stream: YES
C2 Error Info: YES
FUA: yes

and others...

[Spoon-]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

I am not sure if the 712uf would provide c2 pointers.

[KOF]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

That is the problem, many enclosures do not allow the 'good stuff' such as c2. The trouble with a sticky FAQ is these things get out of date very quickly.

Ok but what about an external cd/dvd drive do i get all the good stuff?

I was also reading in cdRlabs that (708UF and 718UF) doesn't support c2 but only for those external drives - what about the other that you recommend spoon 712 uf?

[pls1]

Re: best brand of cd-drive for ripping

once I got the USB and eSATA working on my high performance business work stations I quit since I don't want anything really unusual on the work machines.

I have three other dedicated machines with the IDE cards or SATA interfaces.

I've stopped fiddling since after lots of wasted effort it all works and is networked.

Phil