>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)
>> CRW4416S. and duh... the CRW4416S *IS* only a 4x write burner.
>>
>> But... The burner is *actually* *supposed* to be a CRW2100SZ.
>> But it is reporting to the SCSI controller as a 4416S. Yep,
>> even the model number printed on the drive it self says
>> CRW2100SZ and the face plate matches the image for the
>> CRW2100SZ on yamaha's site.
>>
>> Anybody else have this crazy problem? Looks like some idiot
>> put the wrong firmware on my drive (or maybe a batch of
>> drives.)
>
>Another question is "how wrong?" Obviously your first item is to contact
>the vendor and tell him that you were not given what you paid for. I
Right! This seems to be important as your partner is not the manufacturer.
>have no idea if you can upgrade the firmware on this drive, if it has
>the wrong firmware to start I certainly would not count on a flash
>upgrade, if this drive even supports such a thing.
>But before giving up, I might hack the cdrecord code to simply take the
>speed you provide and omit the sanity check which limits you to 4x. It
>is likely that the CD-R will then reject the command anyway, but you can
>try for free.
Hacking cdrecord cannot help as cdrecord only tells you what the drive
believes. Of couse you may hack, but then the reallity will give you
the same slow performance as before.
A~
Jörg
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