On Jul 2, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Justin The Cynical wrote:
anybody ever did this?
While still on PPC platforms, I have flashed nearly every one of my Pioneer DVD burners using DVRFlash. Usually to add new media compatibility, or for other reasons.
Some Pioneer drives are OEM to Sony and others, and these can be refractory to FLASHing. Externally, the drive appears to be a gen-u- wine Pioneer, but once you bring up DVRFlash it will tell you that it is really a Sony (or other OEM) drive, and as it does NOT contain a known Pioneer firmware version, FLASHing is inhibited. These have generally been OEM-packaged drives which were obtained from some of the "usual suspect" retailers to the Mac owners, and I strongly suspect the sellers really had no idea what they were selling, beyond that which was printed on the label.
Since converting almost exclusively to Intel-based MacOS X computing, with its apparent dependency upon SATA devices, I have not had the occasion, nor the need to FLASH these SATA drives.
SATA drives have become so competitive, and so cheap, that DVD burners with Lightscribe and 16x or 24x DVD5 burning (and 8x DVD9 burning) can be had for pennies over $20 from quite a number of sources.
After experimenting with a number of drive brands, all of which delivered good performance over most media, I have settled down to Sony (Optiarc) drives, which can deliver 100 percent good burns all day and all night at 8x on 16x media (Ridata and quite a few others), for DVD5s.
Performance of Sony (Optiarc) drives with DVD9s is similarly impressive when 8x media is burned at 4x.
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