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• Lh20a1l06
Question by Jailo Benderman, Monday 27th of October 2008 20:17
Want to buy the Lite-On SATA 20x Super All Write LightScribe Internal DVD/Dual Layer RW Drive (LH20A1L06) for some customers of mine.

*Reliability?
*Can it burn Sony, RiData, Memorex, and Verbatim?
*Is it noisy?

4AllClients.com or Pixmania.co.uk? Has anyone had any experience with these companies?

Thanx!
Answer by Womi, Monday 27th of October 2008 20:38
*Can it burn Sony, RiData, Memorex, and Verbatim?


You wont have any problems with Verbatim or Sony media, quality and manufacturers of Memorex and RiData varies a lot.


*Is it noisy?


Oh yes, 20x LiteOn burners one of the noisiest burners ever. [just my personal opinion]
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• lite-on LH-20A1L Burning DVD+R DL disk
Question by acebmxer, Saturday 4th of October 2008 00:02
Hey guys sorry if this is not the right place to post this. I having trouble trying to make a back up copies of some dvds. I have tried just about everything from diffrent softwares to diffrent methods. I have tried PowerISO, Nero alcohol 120. I have tried copping the disk over as in a ISO format or nero's version of a iso and i have tried just copying the files over the the hard drive and burning as a data dvd. I have told nero or using eeprom utility to set the book type to dvd-rom. I have only have 2 disk complet burning one was a game and the other was what i was tring to copy. the game disk works but the other did not. every time it fails to burn just nero just says error but i can not make heads or tails why it failed i dont think its a buffer underrun b/c the buffer is full when it fails. PowerISO gave me a error code of (-109, 987a9b5c) I found one other post with this error but no solution. the media i am using is memorex dvd+r dl. i have tried diffrent burn speeds from 8x to 2.4x.

If i have missed any other information that is need im sorry but i will reply back with what is needed.
Answer by Arachne, Saturday 4th of October 2008 02:14
Welcome to the forum

I'd recommend giving Verbatim +R DL a try. For DL, any other brand is a bit hit or miss - sometimes they'll burn, sometimes not.
Answer by beef barley, Saturday 4th of October 2008 02:30
To add to the great advice above.

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=86730

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=86742
Answer by acebmxer, Saturday 4th of October 2008 05:59
Ill try other media and the other software. But I just took the dvd's to friends house and was able to on the fly copy from dvd to dvd using nero but he has a plextor burner. I only have 1 dvd drive in my system.
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• Dvdfab 5.0.9.0: Causes computer to hang
Question by asaskguy, Saturday 27th of September 2008 18:27
I have DVDFAB 5 version 5.0.9.0 installed and every time that I load the program it can't find my DVD and it hangs up my computer. If I go to the taks manager it says that its not responding. I'm forced top reboot computer

Any insight tothe problem would be much appreciated, its the only program that won't work on my computer - new pne at that using Q9450 CPU
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• LH-20A1L vs. BLV3 'Test' Firmware: The Quality Scans
Question by NBK, Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 03:37
Hi

'old style packaging' Verbatim branded MCC 004 PAP6 50-pack CMC
Disc Created in DiscSpeed 4.11.x @16x
Answer by NBK, Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 06:30
Hi

'old style packaging' Verbatim branded MCC 004 PAP6 50-pack CMC
Disc Created in DiscSpeed 4.11.x @12x
Answer by NBK, Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 12:13
Neo-Verb packaging Verbatim branded MIT MCC 03RG20
Batch#MAP6 Prodisc
50-Pack
Disc Created in DiscSpeed 4.11.x @16x
Answer by NBK, Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 12:18
Neo-Verb packaging Verbatim branded MIT MCC 03RG20
Batch#MAP6 Prodisc
50-Pack
Disc Created in DiscSpeed 4.11.x @12x
Answer by NBK, Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 15:36
Sony branded Taiyo Yuden TYG03 MIJ
Batch#GH000142
50-pack
Disc Created in Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.x @16x
Answer by NBK, Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 22:33
Sony branded YUDEN000 T02 MIJ
batch# TG001162
50-pack
Disc Created in Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.x @8x
Answer by NBK, Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 22:38
Sony branded SONY16D1 DVD-R MIJ
batch#?
50-pack
Disc Created in Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.x @16x
Answer by NBK, Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 22:41
Sony branded SONY16D1 DVD-R MIJ
batch#?
50-pack
Disc Created in Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.x @12x
Answer by NBK, Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 23:11
Any comments???

Thanks
NBK
Answer by NBK, Thursday 4th of September 2008 07:26
OS, HT and OHT: all enabled for the above burns!!!

NBK
Answer by luckybigchuck, Thursday 4th of September 2008 07:49
newbie, got a problem 'n question for anyone, mysony dvdrwdru-180a works fine on cd read and burn, dvd read yes, finish burn no..it is not writing the end piece, for another word, the lead out..has to be software, like any comments, maybe reinstall the software? belarc advisor didn't help much...i'm stumped, and where is that 19dollar sony quad decklike the dru-180a ? anybodyknow?
Answer by NBK, Thursday 4th of September 2008 10:31
luckybigchuck said:
newbie, got a problem 'n question for anyone, mysony dvdrwdru-180a works fine on cd read and burn, dvd read yes, finish burn no..it is not writing the end piece, for another word, the lead out..has to be software, like any comments, maybe reinstall the software? belarc advisor didn't help much...i'm stumped, and where is that 19dollar sony quad decklike the dru-180a ? anybodyknow?


Hi luckybigchuck,

You need to start another thread

Welcom to cdfreaks.com,

NGK
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• Question: Kprobe error test C1 C2
Question by dennisthemenace, Thursday 28th of August 2008 01:27
I just purchased and installed a LiteOn LH-201A1L06C burner. Firmware is BL06. I burned an audio cd and started Kprobe to check it out. On the C1 C2
error test whenever I hit the start icon nothing happens. In the bottom left hand corner it briefly displays 'spinning up drive' then the text 'done' appears.

Tried a DVD+R and it worked fine. Tried a Nero CDDVD read and disc quality test and they worked fine.

The cd seems like a good burn but I am puzzled as to why Kprobe will not do a C1 C2 quality test.

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 32 bit.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Answer by labo_2000, Thursday 28th of August 2008 22:11
same thing for me with my DH20A4P
can someone help tell us what's going wrong ?
Answer by Arachne, Thursday 28th of August 2008 22:17
Same thing happens with my LH-20A1H and KProbe.

I personally wouldn't worry about it, as LiteOn DVD burners, while being great DVD scanners, are next to useless for scanning CD media anyway (they don't report all the types of error).
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• Reading/Writing Error Control - DvdFab 5
Question by ihatethiserror, Friday 11th of July 2008 02:14
hi guys well iv got a problem when im ripping a dvd from Dvdfab 5 i get this error Reading/Writing Error Control (error while reading! Please choose what to do?)Retry, Abort, Ignore, Ignore all. i took a screen shot of the error here > http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn57/Darksony/stupidfuckinerror.jpg iv searched google for awhile for a solution but no luck i usually choose ignore all and the rip seems to be fine that i know of but of course i dont want to ignore the problem if there is one and yes i know i can go to settings and select "ignore reading errors automatically" but like i said i dont want to ignore i want to solve whats wrong i know theres nothing wrong with the dvd or my dvd drive because i can burn a music videos without any errors and also iv tried the same exact dvd but with Xilisoft DVD to MP4 Converter 4 and rips perfectly without any errors also this error happens with every dvd i use original or recorded from my dvd or a video camera doesnt matter it all sums up to the same error. iv tried reinstalling but no luck ... im running win vista ultimate 32bit my dvd drive is a lite-on lh-20a1l if anyone know how to fix this problem i would be very thankful
Answer by coolcolors, Friday 11th of July 2008 02:17
ihatethiserror said:
hi guys well iv got a problem when im ripping a dvd from Dvdfab 5 i get this error Reading/Writing Error Control (error while reading! Please choose what to do?)Retry, Abort, Ignore, Ignore all. i took a screen shot of the error here > http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn57/Darksony/stupidfuckinerror.jpg iv searched google for awhile for a solution but no luck i usually choose ignore all and the rip seems to be fine that i know of but of course i dont want to ignore the problem if there is one and yes i know i can go to settings and select "ignore reading errors automatically" but like i said i dont want to ignore i want to solve whats wrong i know theres nothing wrong with the dvd or my dvd drive because i can burn a music videos without any errors and also iv tried the same exact dvd but with Xilisoft DVD to MP4 Converter 4 and rips perfectly without any errors also this error happens with every dvd i use original or recorded from my dvd or a video camera doesnt matter it all sums up to the same error. iv tried reinstalling but no luck ... im running win vista ultimate 32bit my dvd drive is a lite-on lh-20a1l if anyone know how to fix this problem i would be very thankful


What kinda file is it and what is the title? Do you have the source media, maybe you should try from the source and not a file. Does the source play properly??
Answer by ihatethiserror, Friday 11th of July 2008 15:40
coolcolors said:
What kinda file is it and what is the title? Do you have the source media, maybe you should try from the source and not a file. Does the source play properly??



the source is from my lite-on lh-20a1l Pic ... aka from an DVD+R finalized dvd disk that i recorded from my dvd home player (Panasonic DMR-ES46V) iv tried the disk on my ps2 and plays well as does with other dvd players. any more info that could help you help me please ask
Answer by Jimbo, Friday 11th of July 2008 16:37
Please go to the dvdfab forum and at the top of the forum page there is a download for ver 5.0.5.5.beta and download that what happened is your recorder made it a dvd-ram more than liklely and the new version of dvdfab should take care of that
Answer by ihatethiserror, Sunday 13th of July 2008 00:03
Jimbo said:
Please go to the dvdfab forum and at the top of the forum page there is a download for ver 5.0.5.5.beta and download that what happened is your recorder made it a dvd-ram more than liklely and the new version of dvdfab should take care of that




thanks bro for saving my money worths i dl 5.0.5.8.beta and no more error
Answer by Jimbo, Sunday 13th of July 2008 16:25
ihatethiserror said:
thanks bro for saving my money worths i dl 5.0.5.8.beta and no more error
YW and glad it worked out for you and BTW welcome to CD Freaks also if you have anymore problems please visit the DVDFAB Forum where I am sure you will receive excellant help
Answer by imkidd57, Sunday 13th of July 2008 23:08
Yep good idea Jimbo; bit late to matter with this one, but I've just moved it there.
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• Lite-On LH-20A1L Woes
Question by AesteroidBlues, Thursday 26th of June 2008 11:45
Hello,

I just got a new LH-20A1L in the mail from Newegg and I've had nothing but problems with it. I joined the board because it seems you guys know a thing or two about these drives judging from the Google searches. I have an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard running Nforce 570, which was the beginning of my problems. After a few hours of work I managed to get it to the point where my BIOS and Windows recognize the drive by updating to the latest Nforce drivers. I was happy. Reading media is fine, no problems there.

Then I encountered this (hopefully final) problem. I've installed Nero and am now trying to burn an ISO to a dual layer DVD, Verbatims. Whenever I insert blank media into the drive, Nero immediately stops responding for a period of about 30 seconds, and when I open my ISO it gives me an indefinite "waiting for drive to become ready" message. Once, it actually allowed me to start burning, but then promptly locked up. When I tried to close out of Nero after about a minute and a half, it finally came back and told me the burn process had started and failed (even though it started hanging before the lead-in.)

I've looked in my BIOS and everything is set to IDE, not RAID, but I'm not super comfortable with all my BIOS settings so it's possible I missed something. I'm really wondering if this drive is more trouble than it's worth and returning it to Newegg. Does anyone have any ideas on this thing?

EDIT: I've looked at my BIOS. I have the Serial ATA controller enabled and RAID disabled. The "JMicron RAID controller" is set to IDE (as opposed to RAID or AHCI).
Answer by bevills1, Thursday 26th of June 2008 17:54
Unfortunately many chipsets don't work properly with optical drives. The Silicon Image 3112/3512/3114 chipset does work properly for optical drives, and you could get an adapter card with Silicon Image 3112/3512/3114 chipset or exchange this LiteOn for PATA model if you have IDE onboard.
Answer by AesteroidBlues, Thursday 26th of June 2008 20:40
Thank you bevills1, I'll set up an exchange right away.
Answer by bevills1, Thursday 26th of June 2008 21:40
Oops, I left out SATA in first sentence of reply. I meant to say "Unfortunately many chipsets don't work properly with SATA optical drives" which is why PATA would be best choice for non Silicon image chipsets.
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• Only SmartBurn finds LH-20A1L not EEPROM or 20A1L.BL06.patched-fbl-eos-eoht.exe
Question by JohnVito, Friday 20th of June 2008 20:13
Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to update the firmware for LH-20A1L using CodeKing's 20A1L.BL06.patched-fbl-eos-eoht.exe but when launched it can not find it.

Also EEPROM Utility can not find it.

Only Smart Burn can find it.

It can burn and read with no problem.

I'm using Vista 64....is that the problem?

The LH-20A1L is on the #2 sata port on the MOBO.

Thanks,

John
Answer by JohnVito, Friday 20th of June 2008 22:14
OK found the problem!

It's a new computer build using a Gigabyte MOBO and after I installed all the updated drivers from Gigabyte's install DVD, Eprom Utitlties and C0deKing's firmware updater found the burner.

Thanks,

John
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