Lighton 52x/32x/52x ROCKS!

[Kraftwerk]

I juust got the Lighton 52x/32x/52x drive and with a Powerflyer in my A4000 it writes at 26x SPEED without any Bufferunderruns directly to the burner without any image file!

I got it for $29 and boy was it worth it!

No more coasters for me!

  :-P

[Piru]

That wouldn't be Liteon by any chance? ;-)

[Kraftwerk]

Yeah, my mistake.  :oops:

[Floid]

Ended up with a Benq-based (is it actually Benq making them?) generic burner of similar numbers, and it's the most silent CD movement I've heard since the 1x days.  (More confusingly, all the control chipsets within the drives are made by third parties now, too.)*  Underrun protection sure does make life easy... but be careful, as some drives (like mine) do power calibration after each restart, and there's apparently only a limited number of power calibration sectors (well, partitions-of-physical-area) per blank.

Edit: (Of course, if you've properly throttled to 26x, you're probably golden, maybe.)

Now when "Mt. Rainier" gets a bit more common in the world, maybe these things will be slightly more like floppies, and slightly less like computer-controlled record players!

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*Upshot of Lite-On is that they're possibly the biggest manufacturer of CD movements in the world, so while there are, for instance, MacOS 9 hacks to make the native burning support handle Lite-On drives, I'm somewhat in the cold with that machine and its equally MMC-compliant Benq.

[mikeymike]

Presumably IDE?  Is your machine usable during the burn?

(I'm guessing you have a relatively fast processor in the A4k but PIO is being used)

[Framiga]

mikeymike!!! you already know the answer!

why to provoke? aren't you a moderator?

[amigakit]

It is a great CD rewriter when used with the Amiga.  I know because many Amiga users have been using for a while now.  SWAUG did a review of it over a year ago - www.swaug.org.uk/ltr-52327s.html and recently they did a review of it's bigger brother, the 8x DVD on the Amiga - www.swaug.org.uk/ldw-811s.html

Incidently because of it's reliability and great performance, I've decided to stock it in the AmigaKit.com online store.  You can buy the mechanism with a demo of MakeCD here www.amigakit.com

[Acill]

I had one of them in my A3000 as well and moved it to my Pegasos II now. Its an awsome drive indeed. You should try it with a registered version of Frying Pan.

[Kraftwerk]

MikeyMike,

Well, you asked so here are the stats on my machine:

Informations about the system running OS3.9

              CPU: 68060 (MMU: 68060)
           Caches: instruction cache/burst
                   data cache/burst

     Co-Processor: 68060
      Customchips: AA-Lisa, AA-Alice

Kickstart-Version: V3137.16384
 EClock-Frequency: 7.159 MHz

System is running since 0h 23min 15sec.


Memory:    Address  Pri  Lower    Upper    Size   Free   Name
           --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           08000000   40 08000020 0FF00000  127MB   96MB expansion memory
           00004000  -10 00004020 00200000 2032kB 1913kB chip memory
           --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total:                                      129MB   97MB


Boards:  Adresse  Größe  Bus   Produkt                 Typ Flg Hersteller
         ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         40000000   16MB Z-III FastATA 4000            $90 $70 Elbox
         00E90000 65536B Z-II  Toccata                 $C1 $40 MacroSystem Germany
         00EA0000 65536B Z-II  Ariadne II              $D1 $00 VillageTronic
         00EB0000 65536B Z-II  Multiface III           $C1 $40 BSC
         00EC0000 65536B Z-II  VLab                    $C1 $40 MacroSystem Germany
         00ED0000 65536B Z-II  VLab-Motion             $C1 $40 MacroSystem Germany
         00EE0000 65536B Z-II  AD516                   $C1 $00 Sunrize Industries
         00F01060  128kB Z-II  CyberStorm PPC          $D2 $00 Phase 5
         --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         8 board(s) installed.

[mikeymike]

I wasn't trolling, I was just interested.  I'm impressed about 26x speed burning over PIO, way over what I thought was practically possible.

[amigamad]

My liteon was 24 speed cd writer was bought when they first came out at that speed and was good, but it will now only write at 8 speed. Fails at anything over that.I would not buy another liteon my old 4 speed teac was a much better drive never failed to burn a disc. also can read disc better than the liteon  .I know a few people that have the same problem. Since i punched the tray in in a temper the cogs for the mechanism must have stripped some teeth. :-o  :-?