Charlie grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> How old is that burner? Mine is a circa 1998 Mitsumi CR-4804 TE; and
> it not only will burn 700 MB disks, but the download edition of 9.0
> I'm using now was burned on 90 minute disks. cdrecord sees it as
> "apparently a Phillips..." Installed easily with only the usual brain
> f@rt$ on my part. :-) Late at night/early morning ya know.
It's over a year old, though I can't say exactly *how* old - a HP CD-Witer
Plus 8100i. The thing burns CD-RWs at 2X speed and CD-Rs at 4X.
> I'm not trying to be obnoxious Dave but the reason (I think, maybe,
> possibly) that my CD-RW works and yours doesn't under the
> circumstances, is that I upgraded the firmware back when 700 MB CDs
> started becoming commonplace. Is there a firmware update for your
> burner? The original specs for mine claimed 650 MB maximum too. I went
> looking on Google, found the update, installed it and never had a
> problem since.
>
> Please have a look at the relevant manufacturer's site for revisions
> before you have any more trouble. The updated firmware for my burner
> was specifically for newer media. As in larger. Under Windows of
> course.
That's a good suggestion and I'm glad you made it. It never occurred to me
that this might be fixable by way of a firmware update. I just went
through the nightmare that's HP's website and HP's phone (lack of) support,
and found that the only firmware update I can get to on their site is for
version 1.0g - which, unfortunately, my Windows device manager properties
page shows is already *in* the burner. No one I talked to at HP support
was able to help me in any way, and because the burner is old enough to be
out of warranty now, I'd have to pay $25 to talk to a "real" tech. And I
refuse to fork over $25 just to have a tech tell me that there's no other
firmware available. From what I can find at HP's website, it doesn't look
like they noticed that that model can't handle the larger media.
Thanks for the suggestion, though.
--Dave
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