I posted several weeks back about my 1.5 Xbox with a crappy Philips drive that was giving me problems reading backup discs. Well, I ordered a Samsung drive and swapped in it for the Philips one. Now, I have 2 Xboxes:
1.6 (new) with Samsung
1.5 with Samsung
Here's the issue. The Samsung in the 1.6 reads ANY DVD+R that I give it. I've used Memorex, Maxell and Verbatim. It also reads CD-RW, but not CD-R. It also doesn't matter which DVD burner I use to burn these. The Samsung drive that I just installed in the 1.5 reads CD-R and CD-RW fine. However, it only reads backups burned from the DVD+R burner in my Dell laptop. When I use the TDK burner in my main PC, the Xbox lists the disc type as "Unknown" and I can't do anything with it. I just swapped the TDK drive for a new NEC 3520A dual layer burner. I tested the NEC unit by burning backups on all 3 media types and at 3 different speeds. Again, the 1.5 box shows disc type as "Unknown". So basically, the Samsung drive in my 1.5 doesn't like a DVD+R unless I burned it with my Dell laptop. I use the same software in both machines. Craxtion and Nero 6. I also dropped the write speed down to the lowest on both the TDK and NEC burners. I don't understand why this is happening. Does anybody have any idea ? Right now, at least I can make backups that work in both. However, this seems like a silly issue to me. I would expect the TDK and NEC to be much higher quality drives than the one in my laptop.
1.6 (new) with Samsung
1.5 with Samsung
Here's the issue. The Samsung in the 1.6 reads ANY DVD+R that I give it. I've used Memorex, Maxell and Verbatim. It also reads CD-RW, but not CD-R. It also doesn't matter which DVD burner I use to burn these. The Samsung drive that I just installed in the 1.5 reads CD-R and CD-RW fine. However, it only reads backups burned from the DVD+R burner in my Dell laptop. When I use the TDK burner in my main PC, the Xbox lists the disc type as "Unknown" and I can't do anything with it. I just swapped the TDK drive for a new NEC 3520A dual layer burner. I tested the NEC unit by burning backups on all 3 media types and at 3 different speeds. Again, the 1.5 box shows disc type as "Unknown". So basically, the Samsung drive in my 1.5 doesn't like a DVD+R unless I burned it with my Dell laptop. I use the same software in both machines. Craxtion and Nero 6. I also dropped the write speed down to the lowest on both the TDK and NEC burners. I don't understand why this is happening. Does anybody have any idea ? Right now, at least I can make backups that work in both. However, this seems like a silly issue to me. I would expect the TDK and NEC to be much higher quality drives than the one in my laptop.