The problem with LG firmwares

[Chewy]

finally the puzzle is solved,

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=149085

[blutach]

Never tried to burn with mine over 4x, so couldn't tell, but if there was no write strategy for those types of disks it would have defaulted to the generic I guess.

Funny they didn't mention Ritek in their petty response, which have been brilliant for me (the R03s).

Wonder if there's a utility that can make this drive read PI/PIFs - my only bugbear with LG. Does anyone know?

Regards

[jm1647]

MediaCodeSpeedEdit by Ala42 is a great tool for media tweaks in a supported burner for adding/changing media write strategies. Omnipatcher by the Codeguys is great for LiteOn's and supported Sony clones

[Chewy]

I might reflash mine, used the MCSE utility to just read the codes,
why it had such issues with 4x burns I don't know, the code is in the firmware
flash: RITEK R04-001 16x,12x,8x,4x
nec did these disks great at 4 & 8x.
LG only at 8x

[Chewy]

With apologies to Blu and Lt for maligning LG burners and 4x burning,
I reflashed BY THE BOOK, disconnected primary master(tosh combo),
booted into safe mode(which disables dma AND stops any crud from loading)
loaded the factory 105 firmware and am now burning at 4x on the Ritek's
R04's(16x dvd+r's).

[Chewy]

Sorry guys,
Lt: the 8x burn on the nec slightly beats at 4x 97 vs 96%
Blu: The LG firmware is seriously flawed, the lg burns at 4x and 8x
yield quality scores that rival cmc mags for lack of quality.

This media from newegg is problematic at best with the LG burner!

The LG is officially retired from burning, it's now a locked(rip)
RESTINPEACE reader,slaved to the tosh combo drive. My spare
NEC 3520 will be it's replacement, it(w/mature firmware is a very
good scanner and burner).

[LT. Columbo]

rbrtpl

"Lt: the 8x burn on the nec slightly beats at 4x 97 vs 96%"

slightly is right!

[Chewy]

"Lt: the 8x burn on the nec slightly beats at 4x 97 vs 96%"

slightly is right!

Well there is the 8 min vs 15 minute burn time, which seems a significant difference.

[LT. Columbo]

i don't think i'll ever change my burn speed, just me though.

[blutach]

Strange you say that about the LG - I have never had a bad burn with the 4163B or its predecessor the 4081B.

Regards

[Chewy]

Strange you say that about the LG - I have never had a bad burn with the 4163B or its predecessor the 4081B.

Regards

I will repeat my question from before, hehehe, I know you're a busy
man covering so many bases,
"HAVE YOU EVER BURNED ANY R04'S?"

THIS IS AN 8X SCAN BURNED WITH NEC AT 4X, after reflash the LG
does better at 4x, it sort of plays and scans, but there are more red
than yellow PIF's and since quality hits 0 early in the scan I abort.
This same burner makes excellent disks of TY 4x dvd-r that scan 99
time after time, so I assume it the firmware. Some sort of power calibration glitch?????????????????????????

[blutach]

No - I have my R03 and Verbatim DLs and that's all.

Regards

[Chewy]

if it's broke fix it

http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=1973

A105>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>nec(oem)AN16

what the heck
<HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B>Version: AN16 - HA 1 TA 0 - 6.6.0.16
4x burns on LG(still an LG) still won't scan but an interesting development
16x burns on LG now beat the 8x burns with old firmware
PIE 66.23 PIF .18 QC 96
Burn process started at 16x (22,160 KB/s) 5 minutes 4.2 gigs

any theories Blu?

[blutach]

Look like nice #s. Are you saying this new firmware turns it into something which will scan for PI/PIFs? Desperate here for that in an LG.

Regards

[Chewy]

Look like nice #s. Are you saying this new firmware turns it into something which will scan for PI/PIFs? Desperate here for that in an LG.

Regards

That was the first thing I tried! No joy in LGville.