I've been online with HP for 2 hours. We did the Toshiba SD-R6252 DVD+RW Drive Firmware Upgrade (SP28709.exe). The drive still does not recognize Philips DVD+R disks. Does anyone know what disks are supported? I saw a thread on this back in Nov 2004 but did not see any resolution. Thanks for your help. BTW, I have an HP Pavilion zd7180us running XP Media Center v2002, service pak 1 Thanks....Danielle
here's some stuff re this drive - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/202499 http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/1/205731 http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/211517
and http://www.computing.net/drivers/wwwboard/forum/4890.html - i do know these drives can't write DVD-R discs
Thanks creaky. I read all three of the links you sent. I had already upgraded to the latest driver(1A14). I have Philips DVD+R 1-8x disks. Philips has been known to make pretty good disks unless that has changed recently. The system simply does not recognize them. I do have much more expensive Fujifilm DVD+RW disks and they work but they are very hard to find (and expensive, like I said). I don't know if I have h/w problems (HP not a lot of help) or just can't find good disks. Any help is greatly appreciated. Danielle
Philips are hit and miss as regard to what manufacturer you get when you buy Philips. for example - - the names in brackets are media codes, ie CMC Mag are the world's worst media. i personally recommend Verbatim [bold]datalifeplus[/bold] - top notch media that are no more expensive than crap media
