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I9300 - Sony 8x DL Burner, wont handle BeAll 16X Discs?

post #1 of 8
11/13/06 at 12:15am
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Anyway to upgrade the firmware or something on this Drive? My 3yr old $32 NEC OEM desktop Burner has no problem with this media. I love BeAll cause I have a CD Printer and these discs print to the Hub, and I get large packs of them for all my movies and stuff. In the past I've not often used the Burner on the Laptop, but I recently figured out how to get movies/shows off my Motorola 6416 HD-PVR, then turn them into DVD files with several free tools. So I plan on using this burner a lot more.

Any ideas how I can upgrade its disc reading ability?

(ps - it handled old cheapo Fuji8x discs at 8x no problem....but they are not injet printable. And I'm all out of them, lol!)
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post #2 of 8
11/13/06 at 12:24am
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Originally Posted by JETninja
Any ideas how I can upgrade its disc reading ability?
Are you having problems burning or reading the media? What's the model # and current firmware on your drive?
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post #3 of 8
11/13/06 at 12:37am
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Drive (came with my I9300) Sony DVD+RW DW-D56A (Dual Layer capable DVD/CD Burner)
Firmware: PDS7 (Date 2005-07-01)

As reported by Nero Info Tool
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post #4 of 8
11/13/06 at 1:04am
http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=1965
dell

Not sure how easy it is to flash back...
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post #5 of 8
11/13/06 at 1:15am
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I see nothing there that tells me flashing back to an older Firmware will allow it to read newer media.
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post #6 of 8
11/13/06 at 1:23am
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OK, I'm getting closer:

Sony DW-R56A, Sony DW-D56A
- slimtype laptop drive
- rebadged LiteOn slim-2S drives
- for more information, consult the LiteOn and LiteOn-Sony alliance DVD-writer overview ( http://codeguys.rpc1.org/dvdrw_overview.html )
- you can use LiteOn tools/firmwares/etc. for this drive

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=140594
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post #7 of 8
11/13/06 at 1:27am
That's the newest legal firmware. If you do a Google search for DW-D56A and firmware, there's lots of info on it.
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post #8 of 8
11/13/06 at 2:01am
There were sony firmware's (as opposed to dell) on that page...And these are lite-on http://codeguys.rpc1.org/firmwares.html#DW-D56A ...As Wacky said you can use google and find other firmware...
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