CDVDBurn legacy support - supported drive overview
The following information is kept mostly for historical reasons - for support
on modern RISC OS 5 machines as well as for modern drives, please check out
the new CDVDBurn 3
Supported devices
CDVDBurn supports a wide range of both CD-R and CD-R/W drives as well as DVD writers. Support for new drives is added constantly to keep up with the fast-moving drives market.
However, your best bet might be to buy a drive/CDVDBurn bundle from one of the RISC OS dealers. It will save you a lot of hassle, and the dealer will have tested the drive before for CDVDBurn compatibility.
There are different drive classes for use with CDVDBurn. Some drives are fully supported, some are only partly supported, and some are not supported at all. Sometimes, there are OEM versions of drives available under a different brand name, or there were slight variations of a drive model available. These drives are grouped under probably supported - if you have such a drive, please contact me. The same goes for the drives under the unknown label.
The following compatibility table should help you to answer all your questions concerning working combinations.
Update! The latest CDBurn version (1.59 and later) and all CDVDBurn versions now features a configurable MMC driver. See the CDBurn/CDVDBurn support page for more information, and subscribe to the Smartgroups mailing list.
A set of drivers will become available here soon.
Fully supported drives
All these drives are fully tested and are used widely by customers.
DVD writers
Manufacturer
|
Device
|
Disc at once
|
IDE/SCSI
|
Lite-On |
SOHW-1673S |
yes |
IDE |
CD writers
Manufacturer
|
Device
|
ReWriter
|
Audio
|
Disc at once
|
IDE/SCSI
|
Hewlett-Packard |
HP7100(+) |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Lite-On |
LTR-12101B |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Lite-On |
LTR-40125S |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Lite-On |
LTR-48126S |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Lite-On |
LTR-48246S |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Nomai |
680.rw |
yes |
r/w |
soon |
SCSI |
Philips |
CDD3600 |
yes |
r/w |
no |
SCSI |
Philips |
CDD3610 |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Philips |
CDD3801 |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Philips |
OmniWriter 26A |
yes |
r/w |
soon |
SCSI |
Plextor |
PX-W4220T |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Plextor |
PX-W8220T |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Plextor |
PX-W124T |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Plextor |
PX-W1210T |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Plextor |
PX-W1210A |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE(*) |
Ricoh |
MP6200S |
yes |
r/w |
soon |
SCSI |
Ricoh |
MP7040S |
yes |
r/w |
yes (?) |
SCSI |
Ricoh |
MP7060S |
yes |
r/w |
yes (?) |
SCSI |
Ricoh |
MP7060A |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Ricoh |
MP7080A |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Sony |
CRX-120E |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Sony |
CRX195A1 |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Sony |
CRX210A1 |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Sony |
CRX215A1 |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Traxdata |
CDRW2260+ |
yes |
r/w |
soon |
SCSI |
Traxdata |
CDRW2260(Pro) |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Traxdata |
CDRW4260 |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Yamaha |
CRW2260 |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Yamaha |
CRW4260 |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Yamaha |
CRW4416 |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Yamaha |
CRW6416 |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Yamaha |
CRW8424 |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI(**) |
Yamaha |
CRW8824 |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI(**) |
Grundig |
CDR100 |
no |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Hewlett-Packard |
HP4020(i) |
no |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Hewlett-Packard |
HP6020(i) |
no |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Panasonic |
CW-7502 |
no |
r/w |
no (soon?) |
SCSI |
Philips |
CDD2000 |
no |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Philips |
CDD2600 |
no |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Plasmon |
CDR4220 |
no |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Plextor |
PX-R820T |
no |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Sony |
CDU-920S |
no |
r/w |
no |
SCSI |
Sony |
CDU-924S |
no |
r/w |
no |
SCSI |
Sony |
CDU-926S |
no |
r/w |
no |
SCSI |
Sony |
CDU-948S |
no |
r/w |
no |
SCSI |
Teac |
CDR56S-400 |
no |
r/w |
soon |
SCSI |
Teac |
CDR56S-450 |
no |
r/w |
soon |
SCSI |
Teac |
CDR56S-450 |
no |
r/w |
soon |
SCSI |
Teac |
CDR56S-600 |
no |
r/w |
soon |
SCSI |
Teac |
CDR58S |
no |
r/w |
soon |
SCSI |
Yamaha |
CDR200(c/t) |
no |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Yamaha |
CDR400(c/t) |
no |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
(*) Unfortunately, the Plextor PX-W1210A does not work on the Risc PC internal IDE and on the Simtec IDE podule, it
does however work on the APDL ideA podule. Other hosts (e.g. RiscStation or Mico) were not tested.
(**) Both the Yamaha CRW8424 and CRW8824 give problems when trying to be used as CDFS drives. Most CDFSSoftSCSI2
drivers I tried were not able to drive those devices successfully. Castle Technology know
about the problem and should have a compatible driver by now.
Probably supported drives
These drives should really work, as they are either variants of
another, fully supported drive, or they should conform to the MMC
standard.
There are quite a lot of IDE drives that should either work out of the box or with minimal changes in CDBurn. If you intend to buy an IDE drive, please contact me.
Manufacturer
|
Device
|
ReWriter
|
Audio
|
Disc at once
|
IDE/SCSI
|
HP |
9210i |
yes |
r/w |
? |
SCSI |
Philips |
CDD521 |
no |
r/w |
no |
SCSI |
Philips |
CDD522 |
no |
r/w |
no |
SCSI |
Plasmon |
RF4100 |
no |
r/w |
no |
SCSI |
Plasmon |
RF4102 |
no |
r/w |
no |
SCSI |
Plasmon |
CDR480 |
no |
r/w |
no (?) |
SCSI |
Plasmon |
CDR4400 |
no |
r/w |
no (?) |
SCSI |
Plextor |
PX-R24CS |
no |
r/w |
no (?) |
SCSI |
Plextor |
PX-R412C |
no |
r/w |
no (?) |
SCSI |
Plextor |
PX-W124T |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Plextor |
PX-W1210T |
yes |
r/w |
yes |
SCSI |
Ricoh |
RO-1420C |
no |
r/w |
no |
SCSI |
Ricoh |
MP6201S |
yes |
r/w |
soon? |
SCSI |
Ricoh |
MP6211S |
yes |
r/w |
soon? |
SCSI |
Ricoh |
MP9060A |
yes |
r/w |
no |
IDE |
Sony |
CRX-1xx |
yes |
r/w |
yes / no |
SCSI and IDE |
Yamaha |
CRW4216 |
yes |
r/w |
yes? |
SCSI |
Partly supported drives
These drives have been tested either by us or by customers and
sort-of work. However, no proper documentation is available for those
drives, so it is unlikely that these will ever be fully
supported. Only buy one of those drives if you are sure that you will
never need the missing features. However, if you already own such a
drive, buying CDBurn might still be worthwhile.
Manufacturer
|
Device
|
ReWriter
|
Audio
|
Disc at once
|
Limitations
|
IDE/SCSI
|
JVC |
CD-R50S |
no |
r/- |
no |
no audio writing support |
SCSI |
JVC |
CD-R55S |
no |
r/- |
no |
no audio writing support |
SCSI |
Teac |
CD-R50S |
no |
r/- |
no |
no audio writing support |
SCSI |
Teac |
CD-R55S |
no |
r/- |
no |
no audio writing support |
SCSI |
Traxdata |
CDR4120 |
no |
r/- |
no |
no audio writing support |
SCSI |
Not supported
These drives are not supported at all. The column labelled
Comments might give you an idea if all hope is lost or not.
Manufacturer
|
Device
|
ReWriter
|
Audio
|
Disc at once
|
Comments
|
IDE/SCSI
|
JVC |
CDR100 |
no |
r/- |
no |
probably some day |
SCSI |
JVC |
XR-W1001 |
no |
?/- |
no |
never |
SCSI |
JVC |
XR-W2001 |
no |
?/- |
no |
never |
SCSI |
JVC |
XR-W2010 |
no |
?/- |
no |
never |
SCSI |
JVC |
XR-W2020 |
no |
?/- |
no |
never |
SCSI |
JVC |
XR-W2040 |
no |
?/- |
no |
never |
SCSI |
Panasonic |
CW-7501 |
no |
?/- |
no |
never |
SCSI |
Plasmon |
CDR4240 |
no |
?/- |
no |
never |
SCSI |
Yamaha |
CDR100 |
no |
r/- |
no |
probably some day |
SCSI |
Yamaha |
CDR102 |
no |
r/- |
no |
probably some day |
SCSI |
Yamaha |
CRW8824E |
yes |
r/- |
no |
never (*) |
IDE |
(*) The Yamaha CRW8824E is a strange device. While it was recognized on the IDE bus, CDBurn was not
able to write a CD successfully. The writing seems to go through without problems, but the end result
is not readable at all.
Unknown devices
The following devices have an unknown status. Availability is unclear, as well as compatibility with other devices.
Manufacturer
|
Device
|
ReWriter
|
Comments
|
Compro |
CW-7503 |
no |
MMC compatible? |
SCSI |
|