snowman
18th April 2002, 19:49
Has anyone used the Pioneer DVR-A04 (or maybe DVR-A03, since they're so similar) to do much CD-R burning?
I have more tests across different media to perform, but so far it doesn't seem to be very compatible with my cheapo spindle of 650MB CD-Rs. The test disks I've done so far don't read 100% error-free in either my DVD-ROM or my old CD-RW drive. (They do read in the DVR-A04, though.) These are disks that I've had no problems with when written to by my aging Ricoh MP6200S CD-RW drive at 2X speed.
(The writing program was cdrdao under Linux, BTW.)
In the process of looking at these, I realized for the first time the DVR-A04 only writes CD-Rs at 4X or 8X speeds - no lower. I was unable to force it to burn at 2X. The Pioneer datasheet backs this up, upon a closer reading. I had problems reading these CD-Rs in other drives regardless of whether I burned them at 4X or 8X. The media is 650MB Pioneer disks, if it matters.
I'm going to try a few different brands on it to be more comprehensive. But I'm curious if anyone else has experiences one way or the other about the CD-R writing reliability of the DVR-A04 or A03.
Thanks!
Dan
I have more tests across different media to perform, but so far it doesn't seem to be very compatible with my cheapo spindle of 650MB CD-Rs. The test disks I've done so far don't read 100% error-free in either my DVD-ROM or my old CD-RW drive. (They do read in the DVR-A04, though.) These are disks that I've had no problems with when written to by my aging Ricoh MP6200S CD-RW drive at 2X speed.
(The writing program was cdrdao under Linux, BTW.)
In the process of looking at these, I realized for the first time the DVR-A04 only writes CD-Rs at 4X or 8X speeds - no lower. I was unable to force it to burn at 2X. The Pioneer datasheet backs this up, upon a closer reading. I had problems reading these CD-Rs in other drives regardless of whether I burned them at 4X or 8X. The media is 650MB Pioneer disks, if it matters.
I'm going to try a few different brands on it to be more comprehensive. But I'm curious if anyone else has experiences one way or the other about the CD-R writing reliability of the DVR-A04 or A03.
Thanks!
Dan