News of CD-R/CD-RW Drives

Has anybody flashed their 332b to the new t405 bios??

Is it worth it to go from t403 to t405?

Introducing: MtkWinFlash

This Windows utility will flash any Mediatek-chip based ATAPI drive. It supports all single-file firmware in BIN and HEX format.

Which drives are based on this chip?
All LITEON/JLMS DVD-ROM drives and most LITEON CDRW drives, including their OEM's and rebadged. Then there are many drives from SONY, MEMOREX, LG, TDK, BTC, and from other makers as well. Any drive which is compatible with mtkflash be can also flashed with MtkWinFlash, but ...

YAMAHA DISCONTINUES CD-RW RECORDER PRODUCT LINE

BUENA PARK, CA— Citing uncharacteristically rapid price erosions, continuing market difficulties, and the highly volatile competitive environment, Yamaha Electronics Corporation stated today that the company is discontinuing its sales and marketing of computer-based CD-RW Recorders.

Yamaha will continue to market its other Multimedia offerings, including computer speakers, computer receivers, headphones, and CD-R/RW media, and provide CD-RW drives for music and audio applications.

Technical support and warranty service for all ...

Anybody got it ?...just installed it and flashed to the latest fware R603...still no Mt Rainier support :-?

Is any info/review on this puppy out !??

what do they mean?

i was searhing but got nothing. so could you please help me understand them.

when it ends checking it crashes.
I can't see the results almost at all
i have installed forceaspi
and i use nero

i check with lite-on 24102b

Hey. I read over at cdfreaks that when you write to Verbatim Datalife Plus
CD-Rs, the resulting burn is not very good? Apparently, they write better in other writers, but Lite-Ons have problems with them?
Can anyone confirm/refute this? I just ordered a cake of the Verbatims, because we don't get Taiyo Yuden here in India.
Please check this out guys.
Thanks
Bhairav

I also noticed with Task manager opened while doing a simulation burn my task manager hits a 100% for CPU usage and the used read buffer starts going down sometimes hitting 0 and then comming back up. Anyone have any clue why

Comp specs are

Duron 850
128 MB Ran
c:\=10 gig
F:\=30 gig
samsung 348b 48*24*48*16

When does you Used read buffer start depleting when burning

Posted today at:

www.samsungodd.com

Beware! This firmware upgrade will be permanent. Seems that if you flash to it, you can't go back to an older firmware.

Bob