Sounds a little paranoid but the only reason I’m asking this is to rule out that paranoid suspicion…
People who have bad results with Ritek G04 are also using / having Nforce or VIA chipsets and the respective IDE drivers loaded?
If anybody is in the Intel world and nothing but the Intel world and has the same probs - I will delete this thread immediately after a quick hint. It’s just a weird feeling, no supporting facts yet. And- yes, my NEC1300A does worse than my Pio-105 on an all Intel PC. And - yes, I still think that it’s just a bad writing strategy by NEC for the Riteks that leads to these bad burning results for them. But I also want to rule out other possibilities because many people have really great results with them. I don’t believe in anything else (ASPI etc.).