HELP - DVDR drive not in MTU's list

[mindonstrike]

I didn't know a list still existed?
If you don't get the drive from MTU it's hit or miss as to whether it will work satisfatorily. A drive that works well for one may not work well for another. To see if a drive is going to work for you MTU recommends trying three different disks and brands and check your results.

For what it's worth I have an Optiarc AD-7530A in my Acer Laptop. On a 15 song disk I probably end up with 8 tracks that are perfect, 4 tracks that are so-so and 3 tracks that are nearly unusable.

Your only sure bet is to buy the laptop if you like it but budget for replacing the drive. If the drive works for you then you'll save a few dollars.

Sam

[Beavis]

if the list does excist, i doubt it is up to date with all the new burners coming on the market every day !


test test test

[Skybird74]

Thanks for telling me you have an Optiarc. I really want to know how it works at a Show particularly with homemade CDGs singers bring in, so I don't have to keep carrying a player too. I even tried using my external Plextor, but it was just too much for my 5-year old laptop that after 2 hours, things would slow down even with 512RAM. Yes, I could buy first, but if I have to replace the drive, I might as well buy a laptop with one I know will work.

Below is a quote from MTU's page which tells all about Microstudio. I believe that MTU updates this list frequenty after testing new drives. I have watched this list grow on a regular basis.

"Microstudio 4.002 supports an extensive list of CD/DVD drives,"

[ddouglass]

That used to be the case up until they changed over to using the mmc connection which most newer drives use. The old method of communicating with the drives was hardware specific which is why they had a list.
The only problem now is even if a drive will communicate with the MTU programs that is still no garrantee that it will read the CDGs completely or cleanly. As Sam said it may read part of the disc cleanly and the rest not. The only drive that MTU will garrantee to work is the ones they sell, which they do have a laptop drive in their store. They also sell a laptop with the drive in it.