I bought a I/O Magic DVD burner with light scribe, I had to return it after a few days. The drive refuses to recognize Verbatim DVD+R lightscribe media. I can burn to the disc but once I flip to lightscribe it says it cant detect a lightscribe dvd in the player. I returned it for a replacement and I'm still having the same exact problem. CDRS lightscribe fine, DVDs not a chance in hell. I/O Magic has been less than helpful and no firmware updates as well.
That is 1625 not 1645! It has a weird firmware for it as well..GBIA. For the "G" series and I can't find any updated firmware for them.
I bought a HP lightscribe burner and tried to use Verbatim disks but was unable...it burned the HP sample that came with it and the quality (even set at 'best" was poor). Lightscribe help is useless. I bought some more HP disks but occasionally get the error message that it cannot recognize the disk...this drive is a piece of junk.
i bought the lacie version of the drive.. luv the damn thing.. http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10071
I tried to of the drives took them both back both didn't work at all. I ended up getting a external light on and the thing has been rock solid no problems!
@montalvo.. the lacie drive? did you call them and get that replaced? i've had it for about 6-7months... no issues..
actually i meant the i/o magic version. I just gave up on it and bought a pacific digital version of a benq dq60 no light scribe , but it seems to be doing its job fairly well.
I just bought an I/O Magic DVD/CD drive and the Nero software was completely outdated. It didn't even contain any lightscribe software. I spent over an hour on hold trying to reach I/O Magic staff and finally was able to chat online with a tech. The link the tech gave me for downloading Nero lightscribe didn't contain any templates or the backitup software (not included with the drive software).
I have a Benq 1625 that is always giving me problems. It worked fine for awhile, but the drivers are fragile as as glass butterfly. At the moment I am trying to fix yet another inexplicably broken setup and I need to burn a cd with cover for a customer. I'm about ready to pitch this POS. The benq site doesn't ever have any updated driver or help. Hope I have better luck with an HP drive.
Wow! BenQ drives are usually excellent. You may just have a bad drive. Going to HP will be like jumping from the boiling kettle, into the fire.
