On Friday 04 October 2002 02:28 pm, David Guntner wrote: > > 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.
This is a rather old burner. I think I may have had this same model several years ago. > 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. This is especially amusing since you can buy a new CDRW drive able to do 12x records and such for just about $50 (after rebate). If this is the same drive I had (and the only way I could find out would be to call my sister and ask her to look since I put it in her old computer), it never supported 80 minute disks for me either, I would just end up with coasters if I tried to get it to write them.
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