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LG GSA-H22N detail information

Posted by agent009
Posted on 18/12/06 21:09
Manufacturer LG
Product LG GSA-H22N
Description 18x DVD burner Supports DVD-RAM
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DVD R/RW writing performance

DVD-R media writing quality:

In these tests we will be using a Lite-On LH-18A1P drive along with KProbe 2 to measure disc quality. We will also be using a BenQ DW1640 and Nero CD-DVD Speed for our transfer rate tests.



A very fast 18x burn, only 5 minutes and 2 seconds. Outstanding quality, too.

This media is well suited for 18x burns.



An excellent quality burn, as expected with Taiyo Yuden media.



A very fast 16x burn, only 5 minutes and 36 seconds. Quality is good, and a transfer rate test shows no issues.



This burn looks very good. Achieving a good quality burn with the media that has often been a challenge to other drives.



A very fast 18x burn with excellent quality. TYG03 is one of the best 18x media, and LG GSA-H22N handles it extremely well.




The LG GSA-H22N lacks a 16x strategy for this 16x-certified media. The burn took almost 15 minutes with the default 4x strategy. Burn quality is good.



Burn time of 9 minutes is a little on the slow side, but we can't argue with the result. The total PIF number of 32 indicates near-perfect media, near-perfectly burned at its rated speed. DVD burns don't get much better than this.

 

DVD-ReWritable media:



This Verbatim media produces an acceptable but far from stellar quality burn.



PIF numbers are out of the normal range, indicating potential reading problems in some devices, but a transfer rate test shows no problems when the disc is read in another drive.



This is about as good as it gets with DVD-RW media.

Summary:

The LG GSA-H22N produced excellent results on most of our DVD-R media but was only acceptable with DVD-RW media.

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Reactions on this item
Quite nice to see a picture of a 12x disc from Maxell, but still the same policy about distributing it in Europe?
How can I locate a manual for this unit? LG GSA-H22N 18X Suoer Multi DVD Burner
DVD Fab not compatible with LG GSA H22N burner. DVD fab from version 2.96 to V 3 .0 drive locks up and does seem to finalise and won't eject automatically.Earlier LG burners ie LG GSA 4163 ok with no problems at all.
i have a problem using this device
i cannot burn a dvd multisession because i get "are you sure you want to burn multisession? any further session will not be recognized by your operating sistem" or something like this every time i want to start a multisession disc. if i select to continue i am able to write another session on the disc but this ruins it because it becomes somehow unreadable. can this be because the write mode is "disc at once" and not "track ar once"?
i tried to change it to track at once but the field for this option is not active so i can't
PLEASE help
I am actually glad to see colino above having finalize issues with DVD-Fab. I am using DVD-Fab Gold and have been pulling my hair out. It stops at 75% during finalize and DVD-Fab locks up and drawer won't open. Kicker is, if I reboot, the disk is finalized and playable so it actually does complete, just won't aknowledge it.

Glad to see it isn't me! Excellent drive otherwise, reasonably quiet, extreemly fast and doesn't mind my dirt cheap no name disks.

my lg dvd writer taking 40 mins to burn a 2.4gb dvd.

earlier it used to write in 10 mins.

plz help me
I wonder if the two first pins (left connector) I see on the rear view... Diogital out? can I connect a cable from it, to my SB Live card, digital CD in (two pin) connector...? :g
I just bought a GSA-H22N about 2 days ago. It reads and burns CDs perfectly fine, but only reads DVDs, It can't burn DVDs. Is it just because I'm using Windows to burn it and need a real program, or is it my DVDs (Maxell DVD+R), or is something wrong with my drive?
http://download.softpedia.ro/dl/b2ddc5707ea98846ba99b8fbb107201e/461e15cf/300025389/drivers/FIRMWRE/GSA-H22N102(EW).zip

lg gsa-h22n firmware update :)
what do you do
how to use it
ok
please, nesesito instalar el drive del quemador de dvd

LG GSA-H22N

favor enviarmelo al mi correo hectorgonzalez29@yahoo.com o decirme de donde lo puedo bajar

hgonzalez
HOLA

POR FAVOR NECESITO QUE ME AYUDEN TENGO UN GRABADOR DE DVD MARCA LG MODELO gsa-h22n, y no me reconce los discos memorex dvd-r de 16x ya he instalado el firmware recomendado y sigue asi que puedo hacer por favor saludos kathy
OK
no chgingen para venden estas cosas inservibles hijos de p...
puras mamadas con ustedes :p :o ;)
Please help me out. I got celeron 733mhz machine with 160gb Hard drive and 512mb ram. I recently bought the above LG DVD writer but i am unable to use it as everytime I put CD or DVD it take too much of time to open the file and even the autorun fuction is not working for the drive. It is also showing DS32.exe error.
hi i have same dvd burner but it took so long time to open files or folder pls help thanks
hello everybody!

I have one of this GSA-h22n Since February... The thing is, that two days ago I tried to burn a CD and the software (Ones) did not recognize the hardware... But, there's no problem at all to read a CD or DVD...

I try to fix it... and I re- installed the driver...but nothing's change...

Who knows what happend? Please, help me...

greeting from chile!

pam
This is the only LG I've had and it is the worst burner I've ever owned. :( It destroys DVD+RW media: I have new discs that are supposed to be good for 1000 re-writes but after 10 burns or less I started getting a message like, "this disc is nearing the end of its useful life." I have never seen this before in all my years of burning discs, and it does not happen when I burn these same discs in my BenQ. Also, I find that other drives have trouble reading DVD+R's that were burned with this LG. I replaced it with a Sony-NEC-Optiarc AD-7173A that seems to be much better. I will be very reluctant to ever get another LG. [And by the way, I did do the firmware update but it is very hard to find these updates on LG's website.]
Ive just installed my burner into my new computer and it doesnt even know its there.. what do I do now? :)
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