[G4] Problem with DVR-109

[Philip J Robar]

On Apr 18, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Steve Jensen wrote:

> I purchased a Pioneer DVR-109 some month back. It was installed into a
> firewire/usb2 enclosure. This enclosure has an Oxford 911 chipset and
> claimed to support 400GB drives, so it would seem to be able to  
> support 16x
> burns. It doesn't! The instructions and other propaganda state that it
> needs an 80wire cable to support the 16x. I understand this also  
> called a
> high density IDE cable. I can't find anyone selling this high density
> cable to even try it. Has anyone put this burner in a firewire  
> enclosure
> had problems with burning at 16x? Anyone have it in a G4 Digital  
> Audio?

The 80 wire cable that your drive's documentation mentions is the  
ribbon cable that would directly connect your drive to either the  
motherboard of your computer or the bridge board inside of your  
external case - not the Firewire cable that runs between the external  
case and your computer. Your external case already has such a cable -  
it's the very short ribbon cable which connects your drive to the  
bridge board inside of the case.

All of the IDE cables in your G4 DA are 80 wire cables. (Unless  
someone changed them.)

As to finding such a cable, you'd have to go out of your way  
(probably at a surplus store) to get anything other than such a cable  
these days.

Are you sure your media supports 16X? Does you drive have the latest  
firmware installed?


Phil
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