Can sombody help me to identify who is the manufacturer and model of this drive? It is in my Media Center 610 xl by gateway. 610 Media Center DVD-RW/+RW/CD-RW Drive Specifications Drive Type 12.7 mm height internal DVD-RW/+RW/CD-RW Bus Interface Enhanced IDE (ATAPI) Buffer Size 2 megabytes (MB) Buffer Underun Preventive Function Supported Write Speed DVD+R/+RW/-R/-RW: 4X/2.4X/2X/2X CD-R/RW: 16X/10X Supported Disc Formats Reads data: CD-ROM CD-ROM XA CD-I Video CD CD-Extra CD-Text Photo CD (single and multi-session) Standard CD-DA DVD-ROM DVD-R (version 2.0 for authoring) Reads and Writes: CD-R discs conforming to "Orange Book Part 2" CD-RW discs conforming to "Orange Book Part 3" DVD+R/RW (version 1.1) DVD-R (version 2.0 for general) DVD-RW Support Write Methods CD-R/RW: Disc at Once, Session at Once, Track at Once, Packet Write DVD+R: Disc at Once, Sequential Write DVD+RW: Sequential Write, Random Write DVD-R: Disc at Once, Incremental Recording DVD-RW: Disc at Once, Incremental Recording, Restricted Overwrite Random Access Time CD-ROM: 140 milliseconds (ms), typical DVD-ROM: 150 ms, typical Write Speed CD-R: 8X, 12X, 16X CD-RW: 4X, 10X (ultra speed CD-RW is supported: 10X) DVD+R: 2.4X, 4X DVD+RW: 2.4X DVD-R: 2X DVD-RW: 1X, 2X Maximum Read Speed CD-ROM// RW: 24X/24X/20X CD-DA (DAE): 15X DVD-ROM/R/RW: 8X/6X/6X DVD-Video (single/dual layer): 6X/6X Sustained Transfer Rate CD-ROM: 3,600 kilobytes per second (KBps) (24X) maximum DVD-ROM: 11.08 MBps (8X) maximum Burst Transfer Rate UDMA mode 2, Multi-word DMA mode 2, PIO mode 4 Multimedia MPC-3 Compliant Audio 16-bit digital data output though ATA interface Software volume control Equipped with audio line output for audio CD playback
You could always try running something like DriveInfo (from http://www.remoteselector.com/driveinfo.htm ) and it'll show the system name, at least, of your DVD Drive. My Optorite DVD-RW shows as "OPTORITE DVD RW DD0201 2.30", showing the model number and firmware revision, as it does for my standard DVD-ROM drive) - so you might be in luck. If you find out the make (or at least what the system thinks it's called) please tell us as I'm curious to know now
This is the drive name.... HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA - 4040N I still have no idea who the manufacturer is... I want to be able to make an eduacted decion on media to purchse.. Please help.
A search on Google using that full drive name as the search text immediately elicited results... .... (drum roll please) ........ Your drive is an "LG/Hitachi Data Storage" drive, as can be found in the Acer Ferrari 3000 PC and some of the Dell Latitude series of laptops (for example). Have some links which might come in useful: http://forum.firmware-flash.com/viewtopic.php?t=21583 http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?threadid=83666 My google results pages: http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=HL-DT-ST+GCA-4040N http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=4040N Now go find that LG/Hitachi-friendly media
THANK YOU! I appreciate your assistance... Do you know of a smart way to find teh right media for this drive? Thanks again
The best way is to hit a few forums of sites which specialise in burners and media, and just discuss with people. dvd-recordable.org has some good forums, and there's a good forum at cdfreaks.com. Each DVD-R/RW/+R/+RW has an ADVDINFO tag inscribed onto it when it's manufactured. Each manufacturer has its own ADVDINFO code. With a tool like DVD Identifier, you can find these codes out. Some online shops (like the one at www.svp.co.uk, my favourite online shop) show the ADVDINFO code next to every item they sell, so if you know which types of media (more specifically, which manufacturers) are best suited to your type of drive, you can go searching for them, and there ya go. Be careful - sometimes branded blanks will have one lot of batches made by one company, and then suddenly you find that another manufacturer has produced another lot of batches for the brand - and both are sold under the same name. This is usually due to fluctuating wholesale prices - at the end of the day, unless one manufacturer is VERY good, companies will go with whoever's cheapest... Or the most reliable if they're a respectable company Princo I believe are quite compatible discs when it comes to usage in other -ROM machines (i.e. DVD players, PS2s and the like), and I believe the Ritek dye is pretty compatible with many burner drives. But at the end of the day, either you find someone with a similar/identical drive, and ask them which media types work best, or you do what I did once and buy a sample pack which contains a number of different brands of DVD blank, and you try them all out. Either way, I'm glad you're happy with your newly-identified drive Enjoy. (You can update your forum signature now _X_X_X_X_X_[small][23:47] <+cjdawg> can I use DeCSS for web design then?[/small]
