I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of return on investment
resolution choices.
The firmware upgrade took about 10 minutes.
During this time:
no donning the LED headlamp ( that terrifies my kid almost as much as
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Probably just a hardware failure then. Maybe intermittent; a dust mote
on the laser, or a crack on the circuit board. May come back soon, may
not. I personally doubt the firmware upgrade was responsible for
'fixing' the drive.
Again, you've gone to much more effort than I would have. I'd be more
w
It's always possible that some software "upgrade" broke something. If it was
an MS patch that broke it, the drive manufacturer may have decided the easier
route to the fix was to change the firmware of his product.
I've had a lot of things get flaky at some point in time, and have often
suspec
I don't normally burn that many types (and don't to multisession). I
was just trying to clarify wheat the issue was: the hardware, the
media or the authoring software.
I guess the restored functionality after the firmware upgrade puts the
answer in the "hardware sort of" category:-)
Everything ha
>The burner worked fine from day 1 until it started eliminating DVD-R
>from its functionality. The firmware upgrade fixed this. Can firmware
>get corrupted? Was the firmware update the best troubleshooting path
Hard to say unless you know exactly what was in the firmware upgrade.
One of the thing
Yes, I suppose any kind of memory can get corrupted, though ROM (well,
EEPROM) would be much less susceptible than RAM.
The bigger question is why are you burning so many different types of
DVDs? I burn several per week and all of them are UDF, no
multisession, DVD-R, which the company buys in bul
Recently a three-year old Lite-On multi-format DL DVD burner in my
Windiows XP desktop started balking at some DVD burning jons. DVD-R?
Fine. DVD=R? Fine. DVD-DL? Fine. DVD RW variants? Fine. CD and CD-RW?
Fine.
But it was not happy with DVD-R jobs. At first I suspected Nero,
because the current v
