Overclocking Plextor CD-R's?

[Wiruz]

Some days ago, one of my freinds told me something about overclocking plextor CR-R's. is this just some urban legend, or are you able to upgrade the firmeware so the burner supports higher speeds?

I have an old and trusted plextor (Caddy, 4x burn, 12x read), and he said it might be able to run at 6x instead.

Has anyone ever heard about that?

~Wiruz, The Digital Hippie

[Bsdboy]

You can "overclock" some drives,you can find
out more here: http://www.cdrinfo.com/tips/hardware_oc.shtml
They don't seem to have anything for your
drive but you might find help elsewhere.

Bsdboy

[Wiruz]

**** - the "overclocking" is done by shorting the "reserved" jumpers next to the digital audio out - this makes it run in UDMA-33 mode... Mine is a SCSI.

If you have an IDE burner, you might wanna check out the link.

Has anybody got any advise on how to make a SCSI Plextor 4x run any faster? Firmware upgrade? - I'll just chack their homepage.

~Wiruz, The Digital Hippie

[djurom]

I don't see how can this speed up the rate of recording. This only activates faster acces and less CPU overhead, right?

[Bsdboy]

djurom you are right, I have done this but
I don't really notice any difference.

Bsdboy

[fxcapt]

Tried it on my 12x plextor, no diff

[djurom]

The only "overclock" was when they started to use overburn in CD recording. That isn't o/c but you could call it tweaking just like in this case with UDMA. You only tweak your system so it runs smoother.

[Bsdboy]

djurom you can "overclock" some drives to burn at faster speeds here are some examples: http://www.cdrinfo.com/tips/hp_oc.shtml

Bsdboy

[djurom]

Oh, I forgot about that http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif . Sorry. But that still stands for that page on jumper setting.