Interesting dell fine print....

Dippyskoodlez · Dec 2, 2006, 01:56 PM

http://www.dell.com/content/products...en&s=bsd&cs=04

Click product brochure, scroll to the bottom of the second page..

Looks like that could be fun

pt · Dec 2, 2006, 02:00 PM

glad i doesn't own a dell

Dippyskoodlez · Dec 2, 2006, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by pt

glad i doesn't own a dell

This isn't a bad thing

We use a few hundred of these D620's at work..

niko084 · Dec 5, 2006, 01:01 AM

Dell...Pfft...

AthlonX2 · Dec 5, 2006, 01:33 AM

so couldnt you modify the firmware and make it capable of writing dvds?

Mediocre · Dec 5, 2006, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by AthlonX2

so couldnt you modify the firmware and make it capable of writing dvds?

I think its the other way around, it sounds like they disabled a burner to make it into a ROM drive?

Dippyskoodlez · Dec 5, 2006, 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Mediocre

I think its the other way around, it sounds like they disabled a burner to make it into a ROM drive?

Frogger · Dec 5, 2006, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Dippyskoodlez

This isn't a bad thing

We use a few hundred of these D620's at work..

I smell a rash of flashing & and burning at work

lemonadesoda · Dec 5, 2006, 03:24 AM

These could be "defective" burners. Misalignment of write head or other problems. Try flashing the ROMs for sure! But test the write by reading on another CD-drive before doing any critical backups!

I remember in the good old days I had one of the "first" cd-burners... 650MB... SCSI. Problem was that she liked her own burns, but other CD drives didnt like her CDs at all. So be careful.

DaMulta · Dec 5, 2006, 03:35 AM

Its like when they are selling lower end video cards like hotcakes and they take a top of the line card and downgrade it for the cards that are selling like hot cakes.

They have done this with CPUs in the past as well.

Dippyskoodlez · Dec 5, 2006, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by lemonadesoda

I remember in the good old days I had one of the "first" cd-burners... 650MB... SCSI. Problem was that she liked her own burns, but other CD drives didnt like her CDs at all. So be careful.

Your first CD burner was also before the "book" standards were followed aswell....

Steevo · Dec 5, 2006, 04:25 AM

redbook anyone?

I remember my first 4X CD-R drive. What a piece of shit.

And expensive too.

DaMulta · Dec 5, 2006, 04:30 AM

My dad bought me a 300 dollar 2x cdrom for xmas back in the day and it was FAST/LOL

AshenSugar · Dec 5, 2006, 06:20 AM

my 4x scsi burner still works fine, u just gotta run a calabration on it every few months if ur not burning much or burning a whole lot.

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