PLEXTOR 12/10/32 NOW ARE CRAP

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TO EVERY ONE THINKING OF BUYING 1 OF THESE DO NOT BOTHER !!.
I HAVE GOT 1 OF THESE AS A RESULT OF READING POSTS ON HERE AND AS A RESULT OF READING ALL THE BUMF ON GAMECOPYWORLD PLUS THE TEST RESULTS OF CLONE, BLINDREAD/WRITE AND USERS OF THIS DRIVE. THEY ALL SAY THESE DRIVES ARE GOOD AND WILL COPY MOST ANYTHING I BEG TO DIFFER AS THE FIRMWARES FROM 1.05 TO 1.08 HAVE CODE IN THEM SO THAT YO CANNOT DOWNGRADE BELOW 1.05 ALSO THE FIRMWARE DOES NOT ALLOW RAW READING OR WRITING AND WILL NOT ALLOW DAO. HAVE TRIED TO BYPASS ALL THIS PLUS TRY TO BRIDGE THE SPARE JUMPERS ON THE BACK OF THE DRIVE LIKE THE CLONE CLINIC SUGGEST IT STILL WILL NOT ALTER THE FIRMWARE INSTUCTIONS. YET AGAIN I WONDER HOW PEOPLE ACHIVE THE RESULTS THEY SAY THEY DO WHEN IF YO ACTUALY TAKE THE TIME TO LOOK AT THE DRIVES SPECIFICATIONS IN ANY OF THE COPYING SOFTWARE THEY ALL SAY THE DRIVE CANNOT FUNTION AS EVERY ONE CLAIMS. EVEN CLONECD SAYS THAT WHITH THIS DRIVE IT CAN DO LASERLOCK WITH CLONY SETTINGS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE TRIED AND TESTED IT GETS AS FAR AS THE LOCK AND JUST SITS THERE AND STALLS UNTILL YOU REBOOT THE MACHINE. BLIND READ AND WRITE DOES EXACTLY THE SAME THING I EVEN LEFT THIS RUNNING FOR 6 HOURS ALL TO FIND THAT EVEN THIS STOPS AT THE LOCK. I HAVE EVEN DONE A FRESH INSTALATION OF WINDOWS AND REMOVED CERTAIN PROGS AND THE LIKE THAT MAY INTERFEAR WITH CLONE OR BLIND READ/WRITE BUT GET THE SAME RESULTS.
CAN SOME ONE TELL ME WERE IM GOING WRONG OR WHAT THE HELL I DO TO GET ROUND THIS OR CAN ANY ONE WHO USES THESE DRIVES TELL ME HOW THEY OVERCOME IT. ANY REPLIES RECIEVED WITH THANKS

[Wayniac]

Is there 2 versions of this writer?

One with DAO disabled and the other with full RAW read/write? The CloneCD hardware rquirements help file may be able to help ya out.

Sorry to hear about your troubles..

~~Wayniac~~