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DVD Drives for Wii & Gamecube Backups
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sfsi02
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24. January 2008 @ 12:08 |
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I posted this elsewhere on this site, but I did some testing of my own:
So I also jumped into this market and ordered many many many hp gdr 6162b and 8163b. I am not advertising, but I am here to confirm that the HP drives work perfectly. Moreover, the difference between the 8163b and the 8162b is pretty big. It takes about an extra hour to rawdump an 8163b, as you can see from my screenshots (again, that's my ebay name, but I am not advertising here, I just made those pics for my ad):
So if you look at the read rate during ripping, you notice that the 8162b is much faster than the 8163b, and moreover, the final completion time is was shorter for the 2. I tested these drives using both ide cable and then usb to ide with no additional drivers. All tests were done on xp pro. Hope this helps!
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simoriah
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24. January 2008 @ 12:14 |
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Originally posted by gunz1:
Can anyone confirm whether or not this drive will work?
Lite-On DVD SOHD-16P9S
Well... it's not an LG drive. It's not even related to the LG drives that work. I'd venture a guess and say "Nope. not gonna work. . . Read the thread."
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sfsi02
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24. January 2008 @ 13:02 |
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LG is not the determinning factor. In all my testing all the HP drives tested worked flawlessly...
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brightspk
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24. January 2008 @ 13:07 |
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Its an LG drive, but badged HP the model no. is even the same
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gunz1
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24. January 2008 @ 13:42 |
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My post is legitimate the lite on SOHD-16P9S is comparable to the lg gdr 8163b this is a website where it even compares the 2
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/...=13542&PageId=1
If this drive is comparable and rips wii discs I am sure some people would be interested. I have the drive and I will be testing it i guess. Any feedback would be cool.
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sfsi02
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24. January 2008 @ 13:44 |
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Originally posted by gunz1:
My post is legitimate the lite on SOHD-16P9S is comparable to the lg gdr 8163b this is a website where it even compares the 2
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/...=13542&PageId=1
If this drive is comparable and rips wii discs I am sure some people would be interested. I have the drive and I will be testing it i guess. Any feedback would be cool.
If you don;t succeed at first, you may want to try different firmware versions, and perhaps even a firm-ware version for the lg drive... let us know!
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puredream
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24. January 2008 @ 19:57 |
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i have the same lite on drive and it didnt work for me reading or burning
eh caralho
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simoriah
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24. January 2008 @ 20:06 |
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Comparable doesn't mean compatible. Just because they have similar specs doesn't mean that they'll all do exactly the same thing with every type of disc.
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gunz1
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25. January 2008 @ 00:58 |
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Well I'm new to making backups but i tried the original firmware and then flashed it to the fsoj firmware version on the lite on sohd-169ps and It just keeps trying to read it then starts again with both using dump 2.0 so i guess it doesn't work.
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brightspk
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25. January 2008 @ 02:06 |
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putting LG firmware on a liteon drive, i'm surprise you didn't wreck the drive !
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brightspk
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25. January 2008 @ 07:55 |
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Does the drive still work?
Can you put the original firmware back on....?
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gunz1
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25. January 2008 @ 10:45 |
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drive works fine i didnt put the lg firmware on this was a hack for speed that i put on the drive is from work so i cannot ruin it
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gunz1
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25. January 2008 @ 12:29 |
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I found a drive that will read the disk but I tried raw dump and it does not recognize the drive. I received the faulty drive message. It probably will not work. But I will post it anyways. Atapi DVD DD 2X16X4X16. When i open the disk it does not show any files. This is the farthest I have made it with non gdr drives.
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brightspk
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25. January 2008 @ 12:49 |
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gunz1,
crossing firmware usually damages the drive
i'd advice against it unless you know its effectively the same model
e.g HP GDR-8162, LG GDR-8162
or GDR-8162 - GDR-8163
But the risk it to great for most people... you'd need to have a big supply of drives and not give a t&$$!
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brightspk
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25. January 2008 @ 15:44 |
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bigtreehe,
Can you confirm the firmware version of the 8082N drive?
Regards
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brightspk
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25. January 2008 @ 15:54 |
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gunz1
Are you saying you dumped an ISO image using this drive, but when
you wrote the ISO to a DVD - the wii couldn't read it...?
Could be media?
Even your wii might be to warm ;-)
What speed did you write the iso to a DVD?
What media are people using around here...?
-R / + R ? Any ?
Do some work far better than others?
I'm using Maxell
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simoriah
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25. January 2008 @ 15:59 |
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I'm using Verbatim +R. -R works well, too.
Others are using Y/S media (forget the actual brand name).
Sony reportedly works well.
Most people gripe about Maxell. Heh.
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gunz1
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25. January 2008 @ 17:55 |
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All I did was put SMG into the drive and it didn't lock up. I could check the properties and open the disk. There were no files or file names showing for the drive, but it did read it. Then i tried to rawdump and it gave me a faulty drive error.
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itsmeonad
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26. January 2008 @ 15:26 |
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I'm using Ridata printable (come in 50s for £7) in a red wrapping. Burn them at 1X just to make sure. Also tried Imation +RW 4x works very well at X2 burn speed.
What hasn't worked and has cost me £15 so far:
Mirror +R
Datawrite Titanium -R
Memorex +R
Philips -R
Packard Bell +RW
If we have another thread for this - apologies but I can repost there is the moderator wants?
Cheers
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HOTAIRDAN
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26. January 2008 @ 23:30 |
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I can confirm that HP GDR-8164B works with 0B10 AND 0B07 firmware. I thought that the 0B07 firmware was faulty but it turned out to be some crud stuck in the drive. Funny though it seems that the 07 firmware is faster in RAWDUMP than the 10.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 27. January 2008 @ 20:38
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brightspk
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27. January 2008 @ 07:27 |
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interesting, though all 8164's worked...
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simoriah
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27. January 2008 @ 09:38 |
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Originally posted by HOTAIRDAN:
I can confirm that HP GDR-8164B works with 0B10 firmware but not with 0B07 firmware. Does anyone know where I can find the firmware update program to up the firmware on the 0B07 to 0B10 so i can see if updating the firmware will make the older drive work?
There's a link in the first post right after the 8161B info... takes you to LG's website.And for4 the record... not all 8161B's work, either... at least, not until you flash to the v102 firmware. (Got a few drives, here, that I had to do that to)
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ElXando
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27. January 2008 @ 17:14 |
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Does anyone know a good place to buy one of the definitely working drives in England? Thanks.
El Xando
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Anexis
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28. January 2008 @ 07:01 |
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I Tried it on my fathers computer -> Dell(don't know the typenr) but is aproximatly 5 years old.
I used FriiDump to dump the image, i didn't tested Rawdump because it reads the modelnumber and if it isn't supported it wouldn't even trie. Using friidump it was done in 97 min.
I used the following drive:
IDE\CDROM_NEC_DVD+RW_ND-1100A____________________10GE____\5&33D6CA78&0&0.0.0
mode UDMA
and this is the result I got:
F:\cd image\wii\friidump-0.3.0-Win32>friidump -d G: -a
FriiDump 0.3 - Copyright (C) 2007 Arep
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see COPYING for details.
Official support forum: http://wii.console-tribe.com.
Initializing DVD drive... OK
Drive information:
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Drive model........: _NEC/DVD+RW ND-1100A/10GE
Supported..........: No
WARNING: Unsupported DVD drive model detected, falling back to Hitachi
specific functions. If the dumping process succeeds, please report the
drive identification strings so that it can be added to the supported
drives list.
Retrieving disc seeds, this might take a while... OK
Disc information:
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Disc type..........: Wii
Game ID............:
Region.............: Unknown
Maker..............: (Unknown)
Version............: 1.00
Game title.........: Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games
Contains update....: Yes
Writing to file ".iso" in ISO format
100% |---------------------------------| 2784.14 MB/h, ETA: 28/01/2008 11:52:54
Dump completed successfully!
ISO image hashes:
CRC32...: 5e43cdfe
MD4.....: a2cb87e563be160201343c35adba9b4a
MD5.....: 9bec61c769c708a08af68cf0aaa518dc
SHA-1...: 7c3e1e82af0fd7f5f9eceec41793ef202cdee524
ED2K....: 2a595527950fbd20a2650e868ad954f0
Operation took 5840.67 seconds
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gunz1
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28. January 2008 @ 07:09 |
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