here's one of my 16x Discs- seeing this has jogged something. Had a quick check and i remember looking into NEC drives before - see throughout this thread - someone had an NEC 1000A and another had an 1100A in this thread - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/1/197820 Another thing i remembered is this - http://herrie.org/upgrdr.html - Basically you could upgrade your drive very slightly, by changing it into an NEC 1300A. This would allow you to burn to -R discs, but only at 4.0x for DVD-R and 2.0x for DVD-RW discs. But as your drive stands, it is only presently capable of burning to 4.0x DVD+R and 2.4x DVD+RW discs (i guess you know this, i'm just playing catch up as i only just remembered all this)
so now i realise you're limited to buying only 4x media, which is gonna start getting scarce due to 16x discs out now....
Hi there, But I'm sure, as 4x media goes away, 8x and 16x media prices will start to drop. Those older drives, like my LG-4040B which is a 4x burner also, should work with those new media, else I'm sure/I hope LG will release a new firmware to support those new media. Question: If all I can burn is 4x max, I don't think new firmware is needed to burn 4x on 8x or 16x media !
this is something i'm not sure about; i only recently bought 16x medis for my drive as one of the other guys advised my firmware was fine with 16x specifically, however surely if a 4x drive (being fairly old) isn't aware of anything over 4x then won't it have a problem even recognising newer disks IF newer firmware isn't brought out. I see many posts each night where various burners' firmware is already say a year out of date ?...
so essentially, those discs are worthless to me... can i return it to TDK even if im missing a few dvds? and i can upgrade my drive and that would let me burn -R and maybe solve my TDK dvd problem? why isnt dvdinfopro reading my dvds though?
Hi there, What is the Media ID of those TDK ? VSO Inspector or DVDInfoPro should be able to at least give you that.
this is where i need cougar_ii's help - i think it depends if your drive is drive is capable with current or future firmware to READ 8x media
my drive can read 16x recordable media and the max the drive can write is 12x. your drive is 3yrs old and unless i've missed something, it just cannot read 8x - or + media, therefore cannot be expected to write to 8x media at lower speeds. http://www.dvd-recordable.org/Article54-mode=thread-order0-threshold0.phtml i'll happily be proved wrong but that's my understanding
the easiest way for me when it comes to mds/mdf files is that i mount it in the virtual drive in Alcohol 120% then i use dvd shrink to backup the move to the hard drive then i burn the movie with nero that's just me thanks joebaxter
@creaky i think your right... my HP cds were 4x... shouldnt Dell have firmware for me so i can update my drive to read 8x dvds?
so my best bet would be to buy 4x dvds or get a new drive? ill call Dell, by the way and tell you guys what they say...
up to you, 4x media should be around a while yet; here in UK i can buy the latest NEC (think the latest is still the 3540A) for 30quid or so..
if i was gonna buy another drive it would probably be whatever the NEC drive of the month is (they seem to churn out drives like i don't know what)
hey guys, im back XD i called Dell, they said the same thing "the media probably cant be read/wrote by a drive with 4x capability" Ummm, when TDK writes "For use with 8x DVD+R/RW Drives/Recorders" doe they mean that? :S P.S. can anyone find me a ps2 game copying tut? thanks ^^
