SmartBuy DVD+R DL (Media Code: RITEK-S04-66 in the LiteOn (PLDS) DU-8A5LH Optical Drive
Burning the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB disc in the LiteOn DU-8A5LH drive

Burning the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB disc in the LiteOn DU-8A5LH drive

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Today, we will see how well a SmartBuy DVD+R DL disc burns in the LiteOn DU-8A5LH drive:

LiteOn DU-8A5LH 3
SmartBuy RITEK burned in LiteOn DU-8A5LH 6D1M 2

This unit supports burning these discs at a speed of 3x, 4x and 6x. This post will focus on a disc burned at 6x.

Burning the SmartBuy DVD+R DL (Media Code: RITEK-S04-66) on the Lite-On (PLDS) DU-8A5LH using ImgBurn.

Burning the disc seemed to have gone well until it switched to the 2nd disc layer:

SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 2
SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 3
SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 4
SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 5
SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 6

Unfortunately, the drive could not burn this disc successfully. I retried it and it seems this time it worked:

SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 7
SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 8
SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 9
SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 10

This drive burns these discs using a P-CAV (Partial Constant Angular Velocity) strategy, starting at 3.3x and going up to 6x. At this point, it switches to a CLV strategy. The 2nd layer is done similarly, but in backward. There is no stop in the layer break, like other drives may do at that point.

The disc verification was successful:

Retrying Burning the SmartBuy DVD+R DL (Media Code: RITEK-S04-66) on the Lite-On (PLDS) DU-8A5LH using ImgBurn - Verification Successful.

This is how the disc surface looks after burning:

Disc Surface of the SmartBuy DVD+R DL (Media Code: RITEK-S04-66) burned on the Lite-On (PLDS) DU-8A5LH using ImgBurn.

This drive sets the DVD+R DL Book Type to DVD-ROM in the burning process, which may increase compatibility with older devices:

Book Type set to DVD-ROM on a SmartBuy DVD+R DL (Media Code: RITEK-S04-66 burned in the LiteOn (PLDS) DU-8A5LH Optical Drive using ImgBurn.

Quality Scans

We’ll now see how well the disc burned in this drive by doing a surface quality scan on the following drives:

  • LiteOn DS-8A5S
  • LiteOn DU-8A5LH
  • LG GP96YB70
  • Samsung SE-506AB
  • Samsung SN-208AB

All scans were done with a reading speed of 4x:

SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 15
SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 12
SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 13
SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 16
SmartBuy RITEK-S04-66 LiteOn DU-8A5LH 14

All of the drives had similar results. Overall, this is a good burn.

Conclusion

The LiteOn DU-8A5LH failed to burn this disc on the first try. It worked on the 2nd time. It burned at 6x and verified at 8x without any issues on the 2nd try. The scans show good results. While this drive may burn the disc successfully, it may fail sometimes. While this disc was burned in this drive with the firmware 6D1M, there is a newer version for this drive shown on some images above in some of the Opti Drive Control screenshots: 6D5N. This firmware may improve the burning compatibility and we will see if it does on another post.

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