Older firmware revisions on 8x DVD writers will only recognise these discs at 4x???

[joe2025]

Seen this on SVP, under the 8x discs thay have.

What does this mean, have a NEC 2500. Will they write at 8x?

Thanks for any info,

Joe.

[Lazza]

No as the NEC 2500 is a 8X drive.

They mean that the newer discs may not work on older 1/2/4 X drives without a firmware upgrade first to enable the hardware to recognise the newer discs.

[jase1]

It means what it says.

Older firmware revisions on 8x writers don't recognise Ritek G05 as an 8x media type. So if you have a Pioneer 107 with firmware 1.05, for example, that burner will only write the discs at 4x. It needs a firmware update (to release 1.12 or later) to write at 8x (or a hacked firmware obviously).

I've noticed that SVP are bundling the 8x Riteks with the NEC 2500A. This I find a bit confusing, because firmware release 1.06 only burns these at 4x as well, and to the best of my knowledge NEC have not released a newer version. So how SVP are getting these to work at 8x, I really don't know.

And yes, Lazza is right btw, some older 1/2x drives (and possibly one or two 4x though this is unlikely) may struggle with the new 8x media without new firmware. That said, the sample discs I acquired work just fine on the Toshiba RDXS30 standalone (with no firmware updates obviously) at 1x, suggesting that they should be OK in most drives.

[joe2025]

Thanks for the info, bought some 8x`s, but only write at 4x on the NEC 2500.

Joe.

[discs_r_us]

Thats the same with me on the Pioneer 107 using firmware 1.13.
To cure it, I had to go get a patched version which I think tries copying everything inc. 4x media at 8x or should I say 6x cos that seems to be the max i'm getting at the mo.

[jase1]

It's strange that the 107 is having problems with the G05 Ritek even with the latest firmware -- I was under the impression that G05 was on the list of supported media at 8x. Very peculiar.