What is a Cendyne CRW-5224A??

mpsan · Mar 20, 2003

Hello ALL:

I have a Cendyne 52x24x52 and it was a Liteon LTR 52246S...cool.

I got another one from OMax (free trade for Verbatim 4812...don't ask), and it is also a Cendyne52x24x52...but it says CRW-5224A...what is it? Is it AOpen? Is it any good? I suppose for free it should be OK.

I wonder if NERO supports it?

TIA

ChiMusic · Mar 20, 2003

hehehehehe

I wonder if that is the one I took back as it crashed the sysem booting. Also NONE of my burning software had DRIVERS for it, only NERO that came with it. I took that damn thing BACK. The Lightening model.

RASTABT · Mar 20, 2003

@mpsan its a ASUS CRW-5224A if it comes up with that id you gave.CRW-5224A and asus used to B made by Lite-on not to sure for the above drive mpsan

mpsan · Mar 20, 2003

RASTABT said:
@mpsan its a ASUS CRW-5224A if it comes up with that id you gave.CRW-5224A and asus used to B made by Lite-on not to sure for the above drive mpsan

OK, I will check it tonight. I have not even opened it yet. Yes, I believe the A in the 5224A means it is an ASUS. I have seen OK reviews on this. Will let you know.

RASTABT · Mar 20, 2003

NP bro.

mpsan · Mar 20, 2003

Re: hehehehehe

I forgot...I also hope mine is an ASUS as I also noticerd the AOpen was not supported by anything!

ChiMusic said:
I wonder if that is the one I took back as it crashed the sysem booting. Also NONE of my burning software had DRIVERS for it, only NERO that came with it. I took that damn thing BACK. The Lightening model.

mpsan · Mar 21, 2003

Yup, it is an ASUS 5224A. Not bad so far. It is at firmware 1 and I should try 1.2 I guess.

RASTABT · Mar 21, 2003

B4 you flash see what benifits if anyy you get from new firmware thats if they list the changes on the download site.
Try some cheapo'c blanks in there burn @ hi speed'd etc It might well B a stable firmware you have there now.

mpsan · Mar 21, 2003

Well, I flashed from 1.0 to 1.1. There is a 1.2 but some say they have had problems with 1.2. Still, it seems to be OK. I do have media that my Liteon sees as 52x and the ASUS sees as 48X...actually not too bad. At anyrate, I do not have the binary code...only the complete flash program and code from ASUS. How do I get the bin/hex to use mktflash? I see it nowhere.

TIA

RASTABT said:
B4 you flash see what benifits if anyy you get from new firmware thats if they list the changes on the download site.
Try some cheapo'c blanks in there burn @ hi speed'd etc It might well B a stable firmware you have there now.