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Gericom External DVD Writer
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Scoobs136
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13. March 2005 @ 04:53 |
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Cheers mate, I just backed up a 4.1gb dvd movie on 10 mins, and an audio cd from mp3s in 4 mins! Dunno what speed its burning at, but I assume its pretty high!
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Asak
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15. March 2005 @ 04:30 |
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it's best to upgrade the firmware of external usb2/1394 drives by connecting them internally via ide cables. on this model it's easier than most - due to the fact that it has a small panel underneath, so you don't have to remove it from the case. simply run ide/power cables through the panel. it's an issue with the case/ide interface and not the drive. it's happened on every external burner i've seen that comes in a caddy like this.
"Do or do not... there is no try."
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Roystonnn
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15. March 2005 @ 05:23 |
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Ahhhhh - I will reapply the latest firmware with it connected via IDE and see what happens. Ta
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npenllyn
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15. March 2005 @ 09:37 |
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Has anyone been able to register (for warranty) the external DVD drive online?
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Scoobs136
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15. March 2005 @ 09:50 |
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I've installed mine internally so my warranty is void anyway :)
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TheLatics
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15. March 2005 @ 10:07 |
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Snap - no warranty, but it works a treat inside now.
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Roystonnn
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20. March 2005 @ 06:28 |
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I connected my drive via IDE cable and successfully updated the Firmware - no errors - US05 has JUST been released BUT it sstill doesn't fix burning an Audio CD via USB !
Still its more important to me to have an External DVD writer.
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TheLatics
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20. March 2005 @ 10:20 |
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Thanks for the tip - firmware done.
Can anyone help with a setting somewhere.
It says something like 'allow DVD's to be played on any machine' or something.
This drive is writing DVD's fine for 5 of the 6 DVD drives I have, but not the other, yet the old rubbinsh DVD writer I have plays DVD's in all 6 drives.
I've tried slowing the write to 2-2.4x to no avail, still sticky and pixelly, even with 100% unshrunk files.
It's not the brand of DVD, as these are Ritek and have worked fine in the past.
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delwal
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21. March 2005 @ 03:20 |
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Hi,
Ive been using the Gericom drive to burn DVD+R (Lidl Octron DVD+R) successfully. However just tried some DVD-R (Verbatim and Octron DVD-R) and have
had no luck. Sectors errors or just unable to read
the disk on drive.
Burned using DVD Decryptor and Nero. Both fail. Burned
at x2 speed.
Anyone with similar experience.
(have upgraded to US05 firmware)
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adrian123
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21. March 2005 @ 23:55 |
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Hi
Re the Gericom External DVD Writer I have had no luck burning a music Cd, I have tried differant media, speeds ect all with no luck, always hangs at 5mins. Upgrading the firmware seems useless as well. Can anybody help me before I take it back to Aldi for a refund or throw it through the window!!
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TheLatics
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22. March 2005 @ 00:10 |
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You may struggle with a refund - I gather they don't have great customer service in this respect and may direct you to the helpline (which I hear is also no good as it is manned by Germans! and is 0870).
The drive itself does work, what has happened is the test machines that Gericam have used are obviously so clean that they work perfectly.
Everybody else in the real world has Nero, Roxio, Microsoft, and god knows how many other applications installed - and something betweenthese lot is making the drive not 100% effective.
You can read other threads in this forum that go on about External drives, and Gericom is not the only problem.
The best solution is to install it internally, but this defeats the object of buying an external one in the first place, and does not help laptop owners.
Also you can buy an internal one for £50 now so this one at £60 was not such a good buy as it first seemed.
Rant over!
Oh and I'm still getting several sticky DVD's when writing at full speed on Ritek disks.
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adrian123
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22. March 2005 @ 00:46 |
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Thanks for your comments, I own a laptop so no chance of fitting internally. I would like to get the thing working if possible. As for a refund the law states it has to be fit for the purpose that is intended, ie burn cds. In the Uk when you buy a product from a retailer they are resposible not the maker, as any trading standards office would tell you. Having said that if anybody has a cure for burning music Cds I would be grateful of any new ideas.
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TheLatics
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23. March 2005 @ 08:52 |
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Has anyone else noticed some of the improvements to DVD Decryptor.
The latest version says,
"Fixed: Hang on some usb/firewire drives (enclosures)"
So there was a known problem and at least this piece of software has tried to address it.
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MartinRub
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14. April 2005 @ 12:51 |
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I also got a Gericom burner from Aldi to connect to my AJP laptop (5 years old). Whilst Windows shows it in Device Manager, Nero doesn't show it - that is, when I try to burn, in the Nero Express dialogue box "Final Burn Settings", there is only one listing under "Current Recorder" and it is "Image Recorder (DVD)" - the burner doesn't show up. So all I can do is make an image file that gets saved to the desktop. I've sought help from the Nero people on this.
I can't get audio cds or dvds to play using the burner - I assume they should - but it does play a Linguaphone language cd-rom without problem using either the USB1.1 connection or the USB2 PCMCIA combo card I got. Being new to burning, I could do without all this additional heartache, and unless things improve, I may well be taking it back to Aldi. However, as I am starting to get bad blocks on my hard drive with Scandisk, I am keen to back up my data asap.
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roypp
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21. April 2005 @ 10:25 |
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This is an SIMPLE fix despite all the above,
Simply change the media you are using, ie try differant DVD's. I have the exact same external Aldi DVD drive,
GERICOM External USB 2.0 & Firewire DVD plus & minus R/RW Dual Layer which is actually a
Samsung TS-H552U packaged as a Gericom.
I tried all the above flashing the drive on the samsung site, I also used USB 2 & Firewire none of which worked.
I got countless differant errors regardless of which software I tried, including using the drive on numerous pc's with W2K & WIN XP, differant errors, same result though, countless wasted discs.
My main error was "Session Fixation error".
WHAT FIXED THE PROBLEM
Changing from RITEC G04 MINUS Dvd's I was using to Datawrite Plus DVDs.
I read an article which states that these drives for some strange reason seem to struggle writning too Minus DVDs even though they are meant to happily write to either, and it certainly appears its true.
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smithpe
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22. April 2005 @ 07:37 |
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Hi, I have been following this thread for some time as I too purchased a Gericom USB2 & Firewire external DVD enclosure. There seems to have been that many suggestions to date, but no clear single fix for everones problems. As the initial problem seemed to stem from the coasters created when trying to cread CD-R as opposed to DVD-X, that is where I began to look first. My set up uses Firewire or USB 1.1 on Win 2003 Server. I have managed to burn a couple of Data CD-R's from ISO's without problems. Burning MP3's as files also works without problems. However when you try to burn audio tracks from MP3's(or mixed sources), this is where problems begin. Nero appears to hang at 5-6% and makes no further progress in the burn cycle. I have tried numerous combinations and finally called Gericom. They stipulate that CPU's MUST be a minimum of 2 GIG, to process the overhead of audio conversion and to be able to manage IO.
So my conclusion to my problem is just return it and buy a beter one from www.bigpockets.co.uk for £5.00 more.
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hiero
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4. May 2005 @ 12:46 |
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Hi All
I have been experimenting with my Gericom external DVD from Aldi again too. I have had mixed results but using a DVD +RW disk have had a lot of burn fails, until I reduced the chunks of data to below 500Mb at a time. It then burns at 4x OK even under USB 1...
Disappointingly, my Thinkpad T23 can't read the resulting disk in the standard DVD/CD drive! Any pointers here??
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