Can the old Ricoh MP7040A (4x) overburn 90/99 min?

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I have the old Ricoh MP7040A (4x4x20)cdrw. I wonder if anyone who still own this can overburn 90/99 min blanks? Is there a website that show people what kind of model have successfully burn 90/99 min cd-r?

Thanks

[wway]

The Ricoh MP7040A can overburn to 89:59. The link below contains specs for many CD writers.

look here: http://www.feurio.net/English/Writerdb/frame_list_all.html



You can also upgrade the firmware to a MP7060A. This will allow it to burn at 6x.

look here: http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_modifications_ricoh_7060.shtml


By the way: This is my first post. Been reading the forum since June/July 2001. I think I Know enough now to contribute.

wway

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Thanks for the info... New lease on life for this old drive...

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I have upgrade the writer to the MP7060A and using firmware 1.8 and made some overburned cd.

However, a few days ago, I use it for watching avi files from the cdrw for a few minutes. After done wathcing, the cdrw seemed to refuse writting passed certain percentage (17 - 33%) always write error. Reading from cd is no problem, but writting seems to be a pain in a butt. I tried 6X,4X,2X, same problem. Wasted 6 cdr already... Anyone know how to fix this? Is it hardware problem or software?

Thank you

[SuB-RiC]

I used to have an MP7060A which failed each time at around 25%.
This happened after 6 months.

I did an RMA warranty to Ricoh for an MP7063A which is better, and does READ and WRITE in RAW MODE - Useful for CLONE CD

I heard that some people opened up their writer and used some special grease on the rails which fixed it, but that meant your warranty was void

I also heard that it was happened with many ricoh users using the MP7060A had this problem

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Thanks for your help... I found a website that help me repair this thing:
http://www.geocities.com/videoccd/ricoh/ricoh.htm

thanks again