new lite-on firmwares imminent **edit** are here

they've posted the links but they go nowhere yet the release date is listed as 1/3/03 there appears to be one for the 52236s and the 48246s <A HREF="http://www.liteonit.com.tw/english/index-english.htm" target="_new"> link </A> the one for the 48246s says the same on the page as the 52 but the link points to a different zip file that seems to be the correct one..

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they are officially out now

<A HREF="http://www.liteonit.com/webfw/LTR-52246S/R526S0A.zip" target="_new">direct link for 52246s drive</A>

<A HREF="http://www.liteonit.com/webfw/LTR-48246S/R48SS0A.zip" target="_new">direct link for 48246s series drives</A>

<b><font color=blue>Of all the things I've lost in life, I miss my mind the most </b></font color=blue><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by lagger on 01/03/03 00:33 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

well no actually I meant 52<b><font color=red>24</font color=red></b>6s lol and I have been using the unofficial 6s08 for a few days now(they will not be releasing this one however) the newer firmwares enable the drive to match (use) more media types \ brands etc. there are rumors that the drive will be flashable to a 52<b><font color=red>34</font color=red></b>6s sometime in the future but as you point out even 24x rewritable is rare as hen's teeth at the moment

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yeah the rating is more a function of smartburn.exe and has been reported to be a little inaccurate at times... my fuji TY's rated for 16x report as good to go at 40x and the fuji ty's rated at 48x are rated by smartburn at 52x I almost never burn at those speeds anyway unless I am doing a test .. fwiw I burned a copy from a clonecd image today, as a test, of winxp pro corp at 52x with the fuji 48x's and cdspeed reported no file \read or surface errors CDDoctor also reported no c2 and a very very low rate of c1 errors so I am happy with the performance with the overclock to say the least. also I find the drive is really not noisy for all the speed it has at least over the background hum of the 6 or so fans whirring around my rig

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Hey laggie, you seen any links to the 52326S firmware yet?

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