Dew
10th September 2006, 14:32
I have to purchase replacements for BenQ's 162I which has the Book Management exe. for burning in DVD ROM.
There are no BenQ's in the stores here in Canada as the optical drives BenQ phone support indicated are phased out and back to the Lite On Company.
Thus I have to find brands of external burners that have automatic bit setting. I purchased a Sony drx 810 UL, the last one with usb 2 and fire wire after talking to Sony phone support who said the model indeed has auto bit setting as long as I use R+ Sony, TDK or Verbatim and not Fuji, Maxell or BenQ as there is a dye issue with these discs that may cause the backup not to play on all standalone players.
We have a Sony drx 820 ul model available here as it is the replacement for the one I bought but Sony was not certain if it was auto bit setting and it unlike the 810 which has both firewire and usb 2 has only the latter.
That really is not an issue as that is what BenQ had and the university children had no problems with that.
They need external burners that have auto bit setting so they can do DVD ROM burning and so I thought I would post a direct question re this.
In Canada the sales reps seem to be in the Dark Ages when we talk about Book Management or Auto Bit setting, so I am hoping members/mods here can suggest models to look at.
We are quite limited to what is available and we don't want to adapt a internal to an external enclosure as the children simply want to have one that they only have to refer to one site for firmware updates and don't have to worry about any enclosure changes etc.
I look forward to comments on the Sony that I bought listed above plus the 820 ul and any other suggested external models that I can google and research stores out.
I have tried googling on auto bit setting external drives but have come up with scant info.
I need to purchase these right away as they are already in classes.
Thankyou for your anticipated help.
Best Regards.
There are no BenQ's in the stores here in Canada as the optical drives BenQ phone support indicated are phased out and back to the Lite On Company.
Thus I have to find brands of external burners that have automatic bit setting. I purchased a Sony drx 810 UL, the last one with usb 2 and fire wire after talking to Sony phone support who said the model indeed has auto bit setting as long as I use R+ Sony, TDK or Verbatim and not Fuji, Maxell or BenQ as there is a dye issue with these discs that may cause the backup not to play on all standalone players.
We have a Sony drx 820 ul model available here as it is the replacement for the one I bought but Sony was not certain if it was auto bit setting and it unlike the 810 which has both firewire and usb 2 has only the latter.
That really is not an issue as that is what BenQ had and the university children had no problems with that.
They need external burners that have auto bit setting so they can do DVD ROM burning and so I thought I would post a direct question re this.
In Canada the sales reps seem to be in the Dark Ages when we talk about Book Management or Auto Bit setting, so I am hoping members/mods here can suggest models to look at.
We are quite limited to what is available and we don't want to adapt a internal to an external enclosure as the children simply want to have one that they only have to refer to one site for firmware updates and don't have to worry about any enclosure changes etc.
I look forward to comments on the Sony that I bought listed above plus the 820 ul and any other suggested external models that I can google and research stores out.
I have tried googling on auto bit setting external drives but have come up with scant info.
I need to purchase these right away as they are already in classes.
Thankyou for your anticipated help.
Best Regards.