It's always possible that some software "upgrade" broke something. If it was an MS patch that broke it, the drive manufacturer may have decided the easier route to the fix was to change the firmware of his product.
I've had a lot of things get flaky at some point in time, and have often suspected that some MS patch had broken something. If I had the time, I'd try going back to an earlier OS state and see if that fixed the problem. And it may have been the drive manufacturer's fault. Everything may have worked with "loose" coding of both firmware and driver. MS may have tightened up the driver, and it broke something. The answer was for the drive manufacturer to tighten up the firmware code. Fred Holmes At 04:53 AM 1/14/2008, D.L.H. wrote: >Recently a three-year old Lite-On multi-format DL DVD burner in my >Windiows XP desktop started balking at some DVD burning jons. DVD-R? >Fine. DVD=R? Fine. DVD-DL? Fine. DVD RW variants? Fine. CD and CD-RW? >Fine. > >But it was not happy with DVD-R jobs. At first I suspected Nero, >because the current version has some issues. Then I suspected a media >brand/batch issue (it would do Memorex fine, but not Sony..for while. >Then the problem became all DVD-R jobs). > >I found a firmware upgrade on the Lite-On USA website. It installed >with no problems and seems the DVD-R issue seems resolved. > >My questions: >The burner worked fine from day 1 until it started eliminating DVD-R >from its functionality. The firmware upgrade fixed this. Can firmware >get corrupted? Was the firmware update the best troubleshooting path >(other than the obvious "yes, since it fixed it///) >I've never had a similar hardware issue over 15 years of computing >with optical drives... > >Thanks ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
