Post your DISC quality scans here 2

Its been awhile since I posted any scans, kinda like garmoon, just been reading all of O-man's results. But I recently upgraded the firmware on my litey so I thought I would share. First is from the updated Lite-On, second is from my Plextor PX-800a, just thought I would throw it in as well. Oh and the first one was a bubble burster, had a 98 right until the very end...&*%$##!!!

 

ok guys/gals and you GM.. got the 7200A in yesterday.. i havent installed it yet.gonna take out the LH-18A1P i still cant get the tray to work.. will be doing that next after posting these scans.. anyone have the link to the bitsetting FW for the 7200a? gonna goto CDfreaks and look around.

i did these 2 burns on the 7200S scaned as well then scanned on the LH-20A1S




disc 2 here


these are the printable 16x-r verbs.

 

@cincyrob

Here is the link to bitsetting your NEC 7200 series:

LINK

v1.06 is the most recent firmware bitsetted, expect more recent firmwares to be updated in near future as author has time to work on them

 

got the links even for binflash but i cant seem to get it to work.. i click on the binflash exe it flashes real fast but nothing there i cant figure out how to get it to work.. i had this problem doing this with my 7200S????
if i click on the f/w bin file it wnats to open up in VLC???

never mind gotta DL the GUI binflash.. got it flashed to the newest 1.Z3
gonna give this a try and see how it works.. supose to be a improvement on the 1.06bt.includes it in the fw.

of to do a burn will have results shortly. yes going disc 2 disc on the fly.

 

First QS of 98 on the new litey drive. Burnt at 12x. Maybe I found the "Sweet Spot" as GM would say

 

ferguj1
very nice scan there. very nice....and 12x is a good speed also..

well here is the first scan and burn off the 7200A. not impressive at all but it is the first burn.doing another irght now with create disc. will have all hte goodies with that burn/scan. too.



that is disc to disc also alot of compression.. i could have choosen a smaller disc to do instead of 7.7gb disc that needs 44% compression..lol

 

LOCO was telling me (us) that the 1.Z3 f/w had some issues I think. Maybe there is a 1.Z4 out by now, of course Dee been busy so who actually knows. lol. I'll look and see.... I'd use the 1.06.bt for now Rob.

....gm

add: didn't see the 1.Z4 f/w... maybe I'm wrong. If you have issues with that f/w Rob you might do some searching on that.

 

I read it only concerns bumping up the speed. Im happy with the 1.Z2 it gives my bitset, all I needed. Other than maybe playing with these TYG03s...I dont have a need in OVERSPEEDING my discs,
Though my firmware MIGHT address speed upgrades as well.

 

well ive now done 3 burns, 3 with the 16x-r verbs and 1 with the 16x+r verb. all have high pie's and more than average amount of PIF's here is one i did a few mins ago. got the +r scanning right now.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/benchmark.png
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/creatdisc7200a.png

the +r right now in the beging of the scan had some real high PIE's but settled way down.
im not to sure on the 1.Z3 f/w yet. not gonna dump it after 3 burns..but after awhile i might go back to the 1.06bt f/w.

 

Hey Cincy what I found on my Liteys esp the 160's was to take the clear disk off the stacking rings of my disks and leave it in the drive for about aweek so it'd eject every time helps demagnetize the plate and gives the clearance back rather than using the clip or hitting the eject [over& over]. Chris

 

i might give that a try Chris. never realy thought of that.

here is the +r burnt at 18x to..not bad at all. 3rd burn



just did disc2 side 1 of the waltons season 7 box set. ran it through dvd-rebuilder/CCE 5 passes took 108 mins total.getting ready to burn it.

 

Creaky I had 4 of the 160's do that the first 2 was like the 2nd month and 3rd month sent them back to the egg and they sent me 2 new ones after a few months they started doing the same thing also had a 101 or something like that reader did the same thing. These were in separate cases so knew it wasn't a problem with the install also the cases had my Benqs nd plexys in them. I took them apart, oiled and cleaned them and looked for any burrs on the drives even replaced the belt on one.Isearched high and low for a solutioneven did some custom grinding and butchering on one! Ran across an article on the liteys and some Benq [the 1620 if I remember right] that to use the spacer disk.Heck took care of it. Every once in awhile they'll start acting up and I'll throw the disk in again and their fine for another long run.Go Figure. Chris

 

Chris,

Thanks for the heads up on the sticky trays, I have 2 doing it now, a Benq and a Litey. They're both being evaluated by a 'highly trained tech'. Hopefully he reads this thread! LOL! ;D

RE: 1.Z4 for the 72xx's

I've read that there are some swapped MID procedures(?) that are a problem in addition to the screwed up speed-ups in the 1.Z3s. I've read Dee is pretty short of time right now, might be at or after the first of the year for the 1.Z4s.

I also have recently, gotten a 7200A. Just installed it yesturday and flashed to the 1.Z3. No burns yet.

Have also encountered some wierd scans, will post some soon.

I also have a iHAP 322 arriving shortly. To go into a Litey external enclosure. Hoping for some good things out of it!

 

Here's the first scan. A Verb2.4x-8x burned @ 4x on Optiarc 7200S 1.Z3, then scanned on a Lite-On LH-29A1H @ 4x:

Wouldn't scan past the layer break immediately after burning. Here's the first scan:





Same disc, 2nd scan on a Lite-On 20A1S after approx. 30 minutes(made it past the layer break this time):

(Scan coming, will edit when arrives)

OK-dokay,

Second scan, 30-45 minutes later. Same disc, scanned with Lite-On 20A1S @ 4x (different scanner):



3rd scan coming, back to the first scanner.

3rd Scan:



Each one better than the last.

 

Scan those DL at 2X the speed they were probably burned at. I scan a DL of TDK at 8X and it hung at layer break with 20A1S burned with 7200S. Choose scan speed of either 2.4X or 2.0X and scanned out to be an 93. Had a high error at end. But the rest was nice. The disc played perfectly the movie which is all I watched.

 

@garmoon,

I've had even more drastict results with other MIDs. I've had Ritek DLs initially scan virtually off the charts with a QS of 0 and later receive a QS of 90% or greater.

Agreed, the disc played fine.

 

i think im gonna flash to the 1.06bt with my 7200A after that last +r burn the drive wont burn anything keep getting that bad media error i got last week with my 7200S gonna pull the plug on it after i do the flash to 1.06bt F/W and all should be good again.. or od ya think it should unplug reinstall then do the flash??

Chris.
i really like the idea of that spacer. i might have to pull out the SH-S203Band put back the LH-18A1S and see if that fixes my problem..lol

well i ninstalled the drive. rebooted then installed 1.06bt fw.
just burnt a disc fine. doing hte scan now...
i have found with this drive it isnt as good a scanner as the 7200S and now where near as good as a the litey(as if it could be). once done scanning in the 7200A i will scan the same disc in the 7200S and post them along with a litey scan of the disc..
it was a 20x burn aswell. got up to 20.12x speed. on a 16x-r verb(non printable)

 

Hey garmoon, Have an anxiety attack yet? LOL. Well... I think its DEFINETELY safe to say these TYG03's of mine are EXCELLENT high speed burning discs! Though just for safe practice i'll back um off to 12x. Definetely for the litey. The liteys seen ALOT of discs. infact im purchasing a few things from the egg tonight. Goin for another terabyte drive baby! ehhh... but I think i'll pass my ide 500gb to my bro. anyway... here are the scans.

A bit higher jitter than im use to seeing, but im sure it'll play

 

Another 95. Why burn them-you'll score all 100s if you just keep them on your terabyte drives.