Charlie grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > How old is that burner? Mine is a circa 1998 Mitsumi CR-4804 TE; and > it not only will burn 700 MB disks, but the download edition of 9.0 > I'm using now was burned on 90 minute disks. cdrecord sees it as > "apparently a Phillips..." Installed easily with only the usual brain > f@rt$ on my part. :-) Late at night/early morning ya know.
It's over a year old, though I can't say exactly *how* old - a HP CD-Witer Plus 8100i. The thing burns CD-RWs at 2X speed and CD-Rs at 4X. > I'm not trying to be obnoxious Dave but the reason (I think, maybe, > possibly) that my CD-RW works and yours doesn't under the > circumstances, is that I upgraded the firmware back when 700 MB CDs > started becoming commonplace. Is there a firmware update for your > burner? The original specs for mine claimed 650 MB maximum too. I went > looking on Google, found the update, installed it and never had a > problem since. > > Please have a look at the relevant manufacturer's site for revisions > before you have any more trouble. The updated firmware for my burner > was specifically for newer media. As in larger. Under Windows of > course. That's a good suggestion and I'm glad you made it. It never occurred to me that this might be fixable by way of a firmware update. I just went through the nightmare that's HP's website and HP's phone (lack of) support, and found that the only firmware update I can get to on their site is for version 1.0g - which, unfortunately, my Windows device manager properties page shows is already *in* the burner. No one I talked to at HP support was able to help me in any way, and because the burner is old enough to be out of warranty now, I'd have to pay $25 to talk to a "real" tech. And I refuse to fork over $25 just to have a tech tell me that there's no other firmware available. From what I can find at HP's website, it doesn't look like they noticed that that model can't handle the larger media. Thanks for the suggestion, though. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key
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