ForumLG GSA-H42N detail information
| Posted by | Doug Schwantes |
| Posted on | 09/05/07 00:12 |
| Number of views | 52149 |
| Manufacturer | LG |
| Product | LG GSA-H42N |
| Description | 18x DVD burner |
Menu
Test machine
For this review we will be using a computer with the following configuration:
- Processor: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 165 @ 2.7GHz
- RAM: 2x 1GB G.SKILL Extreme Series 2GBZX @ 250MHz
- Motherboard: eVGA / Jetway 939GT4-SLI
- Graphic Card: eVGA 7900GT 512 KO with Zalman vf900 @ 650/1600
- Sound: Onboard AC97
- Hard Disk: 3x 320GB SATA Seagate
- Optical Drives: Lite-On LH-18A1P, LG GSA-H42N, BenQ DW1655, LITE-ON LTR-52327S
- Operating System: Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 is installed on this machine.
Software:
We will be using the following software in this review:
- Nero 7.5.1.1 Ultra Edition Enhanced
- Nero CD/DVD Speed
- Nero InfoTool 4.0.3.0
- K-Probe v2.5.2
- Exact Audio Copy V0.95 beta 4
- CloneCD 5.2.3.2
Installation and Supported Features:
The installation was flawless; we hooked the drive up as the primary master using a standard 80-wire Ultra133 EIDE ribbon cable
Here is the Nero InfoTool output for the drive and its supported features:
CD-DVD Speed reports the burst rate of 46 MB/s, confirming that Ultra DMA Mode 4 is in effect:
On the next page we will take a look at the Disc Writing Technology of the LG GSA-H42N
IntroductionWant to submit your own review? Click here
Posted by KIMSON VU (guest) on Saturday 19 May 2007 12:36
Thanks for reviewing!
I'm live in Vietnam and i'm looking for DVD RW with good prices.I think this optical driver will my choice.
It cost 46$ (1 years full waratnty ) in Vietnam
KIMSON
www.handicraft-vn.com
I'm live in Vietnam and i'm looking for DVD RW with good prices.I think this optical driver will my choice.
It cost 46$ (1 years full waratnty ) in Vietnam
KIMSON
www.handicraft-vn.com
Posted by plopop on Friday 01 June 2007 03:24
My new LG GSA-H42L (the Lightscribe version) did not have the ability to write at 12x when I first got it. I flashed it with firmware found through this site and now it burns at 12x fine. It will also read faster than 10x now. It's turning out to be a nice burner. I've done a few test burns at 18x with Sony media and they turned out fine.
Posted by Dwight Walker (guest) on Sunday 24 June 2007 15:39
I have been trying to burn Tevion DVD-R discs with the LG H42N with Nero Express and CDBurnerXP Pro on XP Pro SP2. Nero kept bombing out if I had more than 500MB per session burnt. CDBurnerXP Pro had to have small sessions too or the PC would reboot or crash. Either the LG is too fast for my PC or the Tevion DVD-Rs are too low quality and only let me burn 1G before freaking out. I have wasted about 5 or more DVD-Rs so far out of 25. I never wasted any CD-Rs with a Sony CD-R drive. Sony is superior.
Posted by Dwight Walker (guest) on Monday 25 June 2007 07:01
I found DeepBurner.com was a better DVD burner software. I still had to limit the burn size to 500MB each session and do multi-session or Windows XP would crash. This is very time consuming for backing up several gigabytes. I am looking at using tape backup instead of DVD burner as it will not crash Windows XP as it is not so demanding on the operating systems, memory, hard disk space and motherboard. Minimum 1GHz processor was recommended. I only had a 900MHz AMD processor.
Posted by Sisif Tasyl (guest) on Wednesday 18 July 2007 18:25
The only good thing I can mention about this drive is the price. Other than that, it was the worst burner I've ever seen!
After the installation (in a hp pavilion xt926, running XP pro), it was introducing a delay of ~35 sec. at bootup, when the pc was doing nothing - maybe trying to figure out what the darn thing is?! I've discovered that the bios was under the impression that it was a hard drive (!). I reconfigured the bios and that delay vanished...
Now, I'm using Nero to burn my discs. Weird things happend whit this drive:
1. While writing, the hard drive works like crazy, way to much for the amount of data it has to transfer.
2. The REAL recording speed is maybe 5-10 times lower than the selected one !!! It takes forever to burn anything! The reading speed is OK though.
3. The PC clock is slowed down (!), so at the end of the burning process is ~5 min. back !
No errors are reported. Don't know where to go with this!
After the installation (in a hp pavilion xt926, running XP pro), it was introducing a delay of ~35 sec. at bootup, when the pc was doing nothing - maybe trying to figure out what the darn thing is?! I've discovered that the bios was under the impression that it was a hard drive (!). I reconfigured the bios and that delay vanished...
Now, I'm using Nero to burn my discs. Weird things happend whit this drive:
1. While writing, the hard drive works like crazy, way to much for the amount of data it has to transfer.
2. The REAL recording speed is maybe 5-10 times lower than the selected one !!! It takes forever to burn anything! The reading speed is OK though.
3. The PC clock is slowed down (!), so at the end of the burning process is ~5 min. back !
No errors are reported. Don't know where to go with this!
Posted by rasim birlik (guest) on Friday 07 September 2007 18:29
LG GSA H42N Super-Multi sucked with vista. vista cannot detect this dvd rom. u need to update firmware. but how? you cannot upload new firmware to dvd ram while vista cannot detect it. peh. install xp again, upload and install new firmware after that (if you are not dead cancer) format hd, install vista and use LG GSA H42N Super-Multi. thats the stupid drive. in the mean time you can update firmware if you find it. beacuse lge.com dont support that kind of things. you should use local distrubitor page if you have driver. (Turkish distrubitor page ( www.ufotek.com.tr ) sucked). good lock
Posted by Ruy Silva (guest) on Wednesday 24 October 2007 01:16
Gostaria, de adquirir o software Lg Writ,
compativel com o Windows Vista Ultimate.
Posted by Ruy Silva (guest) on Wednesday 24 October 2007 01:25
Gostaria de adquirir, o LG Writer Solution,
compativel com o Windows Vista Ultmate.
Posted by Heng (guest) on Thursday 01 November 2007 03:36
When I tried to use the feature lightscrible, On the screen it has shown "the printing completed" after just a couples of seconds. But surprised to see no label printed on the lightscrible CD. I have tried another CD but still same problem. Please could you advice me? Thank in advance.
Heng
Heng
Posted by john (guest) on Saturday 29 March 2008 14:01
Does it support cd with capacity more than 702 MB e.g discs with capacity 850 MB?
i have tried updating firmware but nothing chanched
i have tried updating firmware but nothing chanched
Related tags
A tag is a relevant keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, product, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to. We use it to make searching our database easier and enable all our users to contribute to our database.
add a tag
Add related tags
Related content
Related reviews/articles
Visit the Forum
Get the latest reviews via RSS 
