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I just bought one of those faster (24x10x40x) cendynes from office max and
have not been able to get it to work as advertised yet!  Out of about 13
tries, 8 were coasters, 4 were successful and only 1 was at 24x (which
burned no faster than a 16x--yes, I
have 24x cd's).  But, it may be my configuration.  I am on the bbs from
cendyne on how to get my computer to recognize it as a lite-on or teac or
whatever, but first the tech has to know what it is.  After supplying him
with the model and serial that are stamped on the drive itself and another
barcoded number on the box, he still doesn't know the manufactor of the
thing!!
  If anyone out there is in the know of these knod of things, I would be
real grateful far any assistance rendered in my direction.

Here are some of the specs:
on the drive:  model no. 2410A-051    serial no. 99B771205120344303PWP000
on the pakage box  Part # CDICD00091  (I believe this is cendynes number for
the 24x10x40).  There is an EAN9557858309997 barcoded number also on
thedrive.

  I have a HP Pavillion 6540C  celeron 466MHz  256M RAM  Western Digital
7200 rpm Ultra ATA/66/100 30 Gig HD and am running W98SE OS.

  My system confiuration has the DMA checked and the disconnect checked (I
don't know if that one is needed to be checked--but it was already checked).
Synce data trans and auto insert notification are not checked.  The DMA of
my HD is also checked.

  My device manager calls it a generis cd-rom (not cd-rw)  but the softwares
apps I am using (nero that came with it and ECDC) refer to it as an atapi
24x10.

All the reviews I read are positive, so I'm thinking my systems not setup
right for this or I have a bum one.

Sorry for the long response, but I'm a bit frazzeled over this.

thanks!

Jimmy Cricket <x@x.com> wrote in message
news:gvha5u8mf1cl5aj1io36be5dshijs18sqa@4ax.com...
> I'm a bit disappointed; I expected at least an increase of twice the
> speed...
>
> Previous burner: Sony 8x4x32x
> Replacement: Lite-on 24x10x40x
>
> Burning data, I tested the speed, and the following is the results I
> got...
>
> Sony: 527MB in 8 min 13
> Lite-on: 527 MB in 5min13
>
> Wow! A speed increase of a whole 36%
>
> WHOPPY DO-DA!!! :)
>
> Can't even manage to be twice as fast! Yet they claim three times
> faster (24/8)
>
> Also, another thing, with the Lite-on I burnt 2 copies of the same
> thing.
> The first was on a Mitsui Gold CDR @ 16x (max speed allowed - as
> reported by Nero)
> The second was on the new GAT CDR @ 24x (max speed allowed - as
> reported by Nero)
>
> Guess what?
>
> They both literally took the exact same time to finish!
>
> Melbourne,
> Australia
>