1.) Asus P4PE Mobo
2.) SY-VIA-150 RAID Sata card from Mwave ($12.99 + shipping). Downloaded and installed the 530 drivers and disabled the RAID app in MSConfig.
3.) Sh-d162c DVD-rom from Vesalia ($40.25 USD incl. shipping to US, good co. to deal with, fast ship)
4.) Benq 1620 DL DVD burner, DVD+R DL bit-set to DVD-ROM with Benq's QSuite app
5.) Verbatim 2.4x DVD+R DL from Sams club
6.) Toshiba-Samsung Ts943 ver. A (ms25. Jan '06 build) - Xtreme 5.0a modified to read ms25
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Backed up the 4 games I own using the Sh-d162c DVD-Rom and Xbox Backup Creator.
Burned 2 games at 2.4x speed and 1 at 4x speed using XBC, all 3 work 100% with no errors or open tray probs. Burned 1 with ImageBurn (as a test) @ 4x, again, zero problems. Plan on re-burning one of my games @ 8x as a test (I've always found Benq DVD burners to be very reliable).
BIG THANKS to C4e (and others) for all their work!
S.