ForumLG GSA-H22N detail information
| Posted by | agent009 |
| Posted on | 18/12/06 21:09 |
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| Manufacturer | LG |
| Product | LG GSA-H22N |
| Description | 18x DVD burner Supports DVD-RAM |
DVD+R Double Layer writing speed and quality:
The LG GSA-H22N supports the DVD+R DL standard for writing 8.5 GB Double Layer media at a writing speed of 8x.
The scan shows questionable quality at the beginning of the second layer but the transfer rate test shows no problem whatsoever during a read test. (The disc later played fine in a standalone DVD player, too.)
LG GSA-H22N burned this 8x certified media at 4x in under 28 minutes. Burn quality is good, and a transfer rate test shows a perfect reading curve.
Verbatim 2.4x DVD+R DL has a well-deserved reputation for high quality. This media can be burned at 4x, 6x, and even 8x speed. The LG GSA-H22N overspeeds this media to 6x, with excellent burn quality, as expected.
This new 8x DVD+R DL media was burned at the default 4x speed. The result is very good and shows no problems during a transfer rate test at 12x speed.
This 2.4x DVD+R DL media has been difficult for many drives, but the LG GSA-H22N handles it quite well.
The LG GSA-H22N burns RITEK D01 at 4x, which is faster than the rated speed. 4x appears to be the minimum speed for any DL media with this drive.
The quality scan shows acceptable results, confirmed by a smooth transfer rate test at 12x speed.
DVD-R Dual Layer writing speed and quality:
The LG GSA-H22N supports the DVD-R DL standard for writing 8.5 GB Dual Layer media at a writing speed of 8x.
A 4x-6x-8x Z-CLV writing strategy keeps rotational speed under 6000 RPM, taking 19 minutes to burn a full 8.5 GB disc. This is only 2 minutes faster than a 4x-6x Z-CLV burn, but PIE and PIF levels are good, and a transfer rate test shows no reading problems.
Good performance with this new, high-speed DVD-R DL media.
The result is excellent and shows how reliable 4x DVD-R DL burning is with Verbatim media.
The quality scan shows significantly elevated PIE and PIF error rates but there are no problems during a transfer rate test at 12x speed.
Standalone DVD player compatibility:
We used LG GSA-H22N to create DVD video discs on DVD+R DL media (Book Type: DVD-ROM) and DVD-R DL media (Book Type: DVD-R) and tested their playback on a standalone DVD player: Sony DVP-S560D.
Compatibility results:
Both brands of DVD+R DL played correctly in the standalone player.
However, the DVD-R DL disc froze at the layer break. This was likely caused by a known compatibility issue between the DVD-R DL format and older standalone players, and is not an indication of a problem with either the LG GSA-H22N drive or Verbatim media quality.
Summary:
The LG GSA-H22N burns DVD+R/-R DL well, with good results all around, especially with Ritek media that has been problematic for many burners in the past. Although some Ritek media exhibits elevated levels of PI errors and PI failures in quality scans, smooth transfer rate tests indicate that the discs are reliably readable.
There were no problems with reading any of the DL media burned by the LG GSA-H22N at 12x speed. This suggests that no standalone DVD players or computer drives should have difficulty playing DL discs burned by the LG GSA-H22N at slower playback speeds.
DVD-R/RW writing performance
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
Glad to see it isn't me! Excellent drive otherwise, reasonably quiet, extreemly fast and doesn't mind my dirt cheap no name disks.
earlier it used to write in 10 mins.
plz help me
lg gsa-h22n firmware update
LG GSA-H22N
favor enviarmelo al mi correo hectorgonzalez29@yahoo.com o decirme de donde lo puedo bajar
hgonzalez
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
puras mamadas con ustedes
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
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.]
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