Firmware A115 for LG 4120B

by **alexnoe** on Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:23 am

http://www2.melcoinc.co.jp/pub/hd/dvsmd ... fwa115.exe

Test with Ritek G05 @ 8x running :p

by **alexnoe** on Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:20 am

/me is falling off his chair.

That's way better than with the Plextor 712

by **RJW** on Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:21 am

Don't rave yet. Because it's ritek you can have one batch working on one sort of burner better as on another while the next batch is the other way arround.
Still it shows that it you LG can burn some Ritek G05 quite compatible for plextor 712 as a reader.

by **alexnoe** on Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:23 am

True, but I usually don't buy cheap disc on spindles, not even for testing purposes. That ones here, specifically, were Platinum DVD-R in Juwel Cases, so it maybe some B-grade stuff, but not worse than that.

For comparision, here some other drives with the same discs (from the same 5-pack!):

The preceding firmware from LG did only allow 4x write speed on those discs, so maybe LG finally hopes to have Ritek g05 "under control" :p

by **Boba_Fett** on Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:58 pm

alexnoe wrote:True, but I usually don't buy cheap disc on spindles, not even for testing purposes. That ones here, specifically, were Platinum DVD-R in Juwel Cases, so it maybe some B-grade stuff, but not worse than that.
The preceding firmware from LG did only allow 4x write speed on those discs, so maybe LG finally hopes to have Ritek g05 "under control" :p

Holy shit! It only took 5 months... THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP, alexnoe

I knew LG would come through!

by **jberry** on Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:26 pm

is this official LG firmware?...not on the LG site

by **alexnoe** on Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:36 am

Ricoh DVD+R DL media could be written better, but could also be far worse

by **Boba_Fett** on Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:09 pm

Wrote to two G05s yesterday. The one I did at 8x failed a read-back near the middle of the disk and the one at 4x had astronomical error rates. I'm guessing either I got one horrible batch, or my Lite-On combo drive sucks/is dieing.

by **alexnoe** on Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:10 pm

Or both

Why do you buy bad batches anyway?

by **Boba_Fett** on Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:13 pm

alexnoe wrote:Or both

Why do you buy bad batches anyway?

What idiot would knowingly buy a bad batch of disks? I got unlucky I guess. I am never buying Ritek again (partly because Taiyo Yuden media is getting pretty cheap)... Now to get a new DVD reader/ripper :-?

by **alexnoe** on Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:18 pm

http://www3.alternate.de/html/shop/prod ... no=CEYX06& :-)

(11 euros not long ago)

Firmware A115 for LG 4120B

Firmware A115 for LG 4120B

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