[paranoia] Best Drives for Ripping?

[bbyer at rice.edu]

In message <19991207025055.4BA3A8882C at bloopfish.xiph.org>
 paranoia at xiph.org writes:
> I like Plextor.  If not for the solid drives, reliable firmware and a 
general
> dedication to fixing bugs they find, then for the customer support.  These 
are
> the drives that companies use to rip hundreds of thousands of discs.

I have a PlexWriter 8/20 and I love it.  My only complaint would be that I've 
found about 5 audio CDs, out of about 200 I've tried, that the drive would 
absolutely *refuse* to read.  In the sense that, when I put the CD in, one of 
the drive LEDs would flash and the drive would return a "Servo Tracking 
Error" to software.  I emailed tech support and they came back with some crap 
about how their drives "burn cds to exacting standards, so they need to 
reject substandard audio CDs."

We're talking about massmarket CDs pressed by Nothing/Interscope here, with 
nary a scratch.

*sigh*

So how about that Paranoia IV? :)

Ben

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