Cant get it to work at all!!!!!!!!!HELP!!

[ncdane]

I'm so sorry I am clueless!!! Will this one work and if so how hard is it to hook this thing up????

PLEXTOR PX-716AL 6X DVD±R DL / 16X/8X/16X DVD+RW / 16X/4X/16X DVD-RW / 48X/24X/48X CD-RW EIDE/ATAPI Internal Double Layer Combo Drive

[gduns - with the Lord]

it should work fine for a desktop

[ncdane]

Is this going to be hard to install?? Would an external be easier?? I am so grateful for all your help, I know I am difficult to help being that I am so lost!! I just want an easy to run karaoke system at home and I don' t want to mess with cdgs. Thanks again--oh yeah...can I go ahead and start importing my cdg's to my hosterlite program or do I have to wait until I get this driver??

[gduns - with the Lord]

Well, External is always easier, but the internal is usually much faster. For the internal, If you can follow simple directions, you simply unscrew, and unplug the one in there, and put the new one in its place.

External, is plug it in, and play........however you should have usb 2.0. Usb 1.1 is rather slow (40x slower)

[bryant]

gduns: Mine has a firewire. What does that do? Is that a faster alternative to USB 2.0?



Also, please catch my previous post in this thread, about 5 prior to this one?

[lmcmains]

Usb2 and Firewire both have a data transfer rate of 480kps. Firewire started out on a Mac computer. Then the Pc's come out with usb2 with the same data transfer rate as firewire.

[gduns - with the Lord]

oops

[lmcmains]

Here are some test results I found.

FireWire vs. USB 2.0 Hard Drive Performance Comparison
Read and write tests to the same IDE hard drive connected using FireWire and then Hi-Speed USB 2.0 show:

Read Test:


* 5000 files (300 MB total) FireWire was 33% faster than USB 2.0
* 160 files (650MB total) FireWire was 70% faster than USB 2.0

Write Test:


* 5000 files (300 MB total) FireWire was 16% faster than USB 2.0
* 160 files (650MB total) FireWire was 48% faster than USB 2.0

[gduns - with the Lord]

Bryant,
First USB 2.0 is faster than firewire, but not so much as you would notice it. They both should work error free. I have the chartbuster ess 4 collection, and made note that I also had problems importing them, as they had speckles in them. I used diskjuggler, and copied them. and then used the copy to import . They then imported correctly. Chartbuster has a lot of errors on their disks, and Importing a disk with an error on them will put the error on the Import.

I hope this helps.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by gduns

Bryant,
I have the chartbuster ess 4 collection, and made note that I also had problems importing them, as they had speckles in them. I used diskjuggler, and copied them. and then used the copy to import . They then imported correctly. Chartbuster has a lot of errors on their disks, and Importing a disk with an error on them will put the error on the Import.

I hope this helps.

Gduns; I see, but why do the errors get seen on the imports, but not on the copies you make for use in importing?
Also, why does the disc with those errors you speak of play fine in a CDG player, but NOT after import?
Did you have trouble with any songs on those discs, or just the "end-of-disc" (TRACK #14 & 15) as I seem to?