Well I finally took the plunge and purchased a new Sony DRU500AX DVD Burner!

webe3 · 05-18-2003, 12:53 AM

I ordered it off the internet and I should have it by thursday or friday of next week. I have read really good reviews and user comments on this multi-burner. Has anyone got one? Care to share your opinion on it? I am really looking forward to getting this drive! These are my system specs: Plexwriter 40/12/40A CD Burner, Acre 56x cd-drive(ONLY) , zip 100 internal ATAPI drive, 3.5 drive, soyo syk7vta-pro motherboard with a AMD athlon xp 2000 chip , 512 mb of kingston SDRAM, soundblaster audigy 2 soundcard, xfx mx440 videocard, motorola 56x modem internal (NOT USED), US Robotics CMX 2940 external cable modem (current modem I use), ATX case, I also use Windows XP Pro as my operating system......I am going to be later upgrading my MB to an ASUS A7N8X DELUXE MB with a barton core AMD XP 2500 and 512 mb of 400 DUAL DDR RAM and also a Ti4200 video card.....but right now....MY WALLET IS EMPTY JUST PAYING FOR THE DARN Sony!!! HE! HE! Thats OK, I know it will be well worth it when it gets here! (hopefully..... now everything will go OK in the install process....keeping my fingers crossed....A wise man once said....."If anything can go wrong it will!" I believe his name was...Murphy???!) Anyway, heres to hoping I can get this contraption put together! What I am thinking would be the best configuration, is to make the SONY my MASTER and the Plexwriter my SLAVE...because I heard that the SONY is really picky about where it goes in the chain! I would probably just ditch the acer 56x drive....I wouldn't have a need for THREE drives on my system! What do you guys think?

cpugeniusmv · 05-18-2003, 01:32 PM

the way you plan to do it seems like it would be the optimal...there's no need for a cd-rom drive anymore...the dvd+-RW and the CD-RW can both read CD's just fine... and as for the master/slave config...try it, see if it works....probably will. and after that, you're good to go :-)

rastagard · 05-18-2003, 02:57 PM

I had an issue with my TDK DVD burner where it would burn DVDs just fine but wouldn't read them. After calling tech support about 5 or 6 times a tech finally asked about my configuration and suggested that I have the DVD as the only drive on the cable and put it in the primary ide slot. (I have an ata controller card for my HDDs, so this was no problem for me, I think it is best to leave your HDD on the primary though) This solved the problem.

Whether this is the case with the Sony, I don't know. But I would definately configure it as the master in the cable setup if you have to use it as part of a master/slave connection.

igalan · 05-19-2003, 02:40 PM

I have the Sony DRU500A (BIOS 2.0f). The IDE interface of this burner is incompatible with the Asus A7A266 (because of the Ali chipset) so I had to connect it as single master and disable UDMA in ther BIOS (not in XP). After I did this the burner has been running flawless.

I have burned over 100 DVD (very often I burn to DVD+RW to test the final disc, and when I'm satisfied then I burn on DVD-R). I had two coasters because a bug in Nero, but that's all. I have been able to capture some VHS tapes that I have (my wedding, some family videos, travels... as well as some tv shows) and create awesome professional looking DVDs!

The only problem is that DVD authoring programs for home users are currently very limited, and some are very buggy, so you're creativity is limited... Oh, and you can have 6 DivX movies on a DVD (that the Kiss DVD will play just fine), or hundreds of MP3!

Drakin316 · 06-09-2003, 12:13 PM

I was interested in this drive let me know what you think about it when you get it in a couple diffrent opinions doesn't hurt. I however have one of the first Hp DVD+r writer's. Have not been to bad but have had some problems reading -r disk on one of my drives. igalan What capture card are you using I am looking for another one I have a Matrox card right now and have not had good luck with it at all and the company does not know much about it. When I call tech support they tell me this is a new card to them as well.

igalan · 06-10-2003, 04:23 AM

I have a cheap Aver TV Studio. I can watch the TV and it also does good captures with the appropriate environment. There are more capable alternatives for capturing (with hardware mpeg2 compression, base time correction...), but they are usually a lot more expensive, and the difference isn't that much, so I sitck with this TV tuner for my VHS captures

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05-18-2003, 12:53 AM	#1 (permalink)
webe3 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 106	Well I finally took the plunge and purchased a new Sony DRU500AX DVD Burner! I ordered it off the internet and I should have it by thursday or friday of next week. I have read really good reviews and user comments on this multi-burner. Has anyone got one? Care to share your opinion on it? I am really looking forward to getting this drive! These are my system specs: Plexwriter 40/12/40A CD Burner, Acre 56x cd-drive(ONLY) , zip 100 internal ATAPI drive, 3.5 drive, soyo syk7vta-pro motherboard with a AMD athlon xp 2000 chip , 512 mb of kingston SDRAM, soundblaster audigy 2 soundcard, xfx mx440 videocard, motorola 56x modem internal (NOT USED), US Robotics CMX 2940 external cable modem (current modem I use), ATX case, I also use Windows XP Pro as my operating system......I am going to be later upgrading my MB to an ASUS A7N8X DELUXE MB with a barton core AMD XP 2500 and 512 mb of 400 DUAL DDR RAM and also a Ti4200 video card.....but right now....MY WALLET IS EMPTY JUST PAYING FOR THE DARN Sony!!! HE! HE! Thats OK, I know it will be well worth it when it gets here! (hopefully..... now everything will go OK in the install process....keeping my fingers crossed....A wise man once said....."If anything can go wrong it will!" I believe his name was...Murphy???!) Anyway, heres to hoping I can get this contraption put together! What I am thinking would be the best configuration, is to make the SONY my MASTER and the Plexwriter my SLAVE...because I heard that the SONY is really picky about where it goes in the chain! I would probably just ditch the acer 56x drive....I wouldn't have a need for THREE drives on my system! What do you guys think? Last edited by webe3; 05-18-2003 at 01:27 AM.

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05-18-2003, 01:32 PM	#2 (permalink)
cpugeniusmv Computer Genius Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 291	the way you plan to do it seems like it would be the optimal...there's no need for a cd-rom drive anymore...the dvd+-RW and the CD-RW can both read CD's just fine... and as for the master/slave config...try it, see if it works....probably will. and after that, you're good to go :-)

05-18-2003, 02:57 PM	#3 (permalink)
rastagard Humble Idiot Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 2,271	I had an issue with my TDK DVD burner where it would burn DVDs just fine but wouldn't read them. After calling tech support about 5 or 6 times a tech finally asked about my configuration and suggested that I have the DVD as the only drive on the cable and put it in the primary ide slot. (I have an ata controller card for my HDDs, so this was no problem for me, I think it is best to leave your HDD on the primary though) This solved the problem. Whether this is the case with the Sony, I don't know. But I would definately configure it as the master in the cable setup if you have to use it as part of a master/slave connection.

05-19-2003, 02:40 PM	#4 (permalink)
igalan PCTT Articles Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Barcelona, SPAIN Posts: 1,018	I have the Sony DRU500A (BIOS 2.0f). The IDE interface of this burner is incompatible with the Asus A7A266 (because of the Ali chipset) so I had to connect it as single master and disable UDMA in ther BIOS (not in XP). After I did this the burner has been running flawless. I have burned over 100 DVD (very often I burn to DVD+RW to test the final disc, and when I'm satisfied then I burn on DVD-R). I had two coasters because a bug in Nero, but that's all. I have been able to capture some VHS tapes that I have (my wedding, some family videos, travels... as well as some tv shows) and create awesome professional looking DVDs! The only problem is that DVD authoring programs for home users are currently very limited, and some are very buggy, so you're creativity is limited... Oh, and you can have 6 DivX movies on a DVD (that the Kiss DVD will play just fine), or hundreds of MP3!

06-09-2003, 12:13 PM	#5 (permalink)
Drakin316 Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: louisiana Posts: 185	I was interested in this drive let me know what you think about it when you get it in a couple diffrent opinions doesn't hurt. I however have one of the first Hp DVD+r writer's. Have not been to bad but have had some problems reading -r disk on one of my drives. igalan What capture card are you using I am looking for another one I have a Matrox card right now and have not had good luck with it at all and the company does not know much about it. When I call tech support they tell me this is a new card to them as well.

06-10-2003, 04:23 AM	#6 (permalink)
igalan PCTT Articles Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Barcelona, SPAIN Posts: 1,018	I have a cheap Aver TV Studio. I can watch the TV and it also does good captures with the appropriate environment. There are more capable alternatives for capturing (with hardware mpeg2 compression, base time correction...), but they are usually a lot more expensive, and the difference isn't that much, so I sitck with this TV tuner for my VHS captures .