New LG GCE-8400B fware 1.04 !

[eliminator]

http://www.firmware.fr.st/

[mdkathon]

Elim, this good with the o/c'd 8320s?

[Kenji]

up to now, no problems with the new firmware.

[gemarti21]

I have a Lg 8320B and I oberclock to the Lg 8400B with firmware 1,02.
I can update my fimware by the 1,04 of 8400B without any problem? Thanks
Sorry for my badly english

[Kenji]

Gemarti,

No problems about updating to 1.04. My recorder is a GCE-8320B o/c to GCE-8400B and everything is fine here.

[eliminator]

I didn't have time to do it myself, but once u o/c to LG GCE-8400B - then that IS your current burner !

[Kenji]

i've put some low cost media compatibility results at Media Compatibility discussion

[mdkathon]

Here's a funny question.

I am runnign XP Pro with NTFS harddrives, the stupid firmware updates have to be booted from a dos boot disk, and ran from a drive taht can be seen from that dos boot (NTFS won't work).. anyone have good work arounds for this?

[cfitz]

the stupid firmware updates have to be booted from a dos boot disk, and ran from a drive taht can be seen from that dos boot (NTFS won't work).. anyone have good work arounds for this?

I have seen this reported a number of times, and don't understand it. I can understand the need to boot from DOS, but not the requirement that the actual firmware update be run from a file stored on a hard drive. For example, the update software for version 1.04 of the GCE-8400B drive all fits on a single DOS boot disc, so I don't know why it couldn't be run from that boot disc. In addition, the LG support site doesn't mention anything, as far as I can tell, about a need to run the program from the hard drive.

I don't have an LG drive myself, so I can't try it, but maybe an LG owner could report his or her actual experience.

cfitz

[Raz0rX]

I too have an NTFS partition and updated the 1.04 firmware thru. DOS by putting the firmware files on the CDRW, boot with Win98 CD w/. CDROM drive support, load the firmware from CDRW.

I tried the 1.04, I really can't tell the difference yet.

[dentarg]

Anyone who knows the advantages of the new 1.04 firmware, please pot it here

[dentarg]

I tried the 1.04, I really can't tell the difference yet.

Tell us when you know something

[eliminator]

I'd like to know that too !

[Raz0rX]

I have been using the 1.04 for about a week, right now, I only have Prodisc and TY at hand. I created a 700mb image to run tests with new firmware using Alcohol 120%. Even I select 40x, it maxed out @ 32x and sometimes, it might drop back to 24x near 50-60 minutes. I don't know why, I will also try other brands of CDs too.

[Edit]

I have uploaded the speed graph when writing @ 40x (1.04 firmware) a 701MB data image.

http://www.geocities.com/rrazorrx/tytestrun.bmp
(copy and paste this link in a blank broswer).

[Raz0rX]

I switched back to 1.03, burnt using TY @ 40x, the drive now writes @ 40x max but speed slows down @ 70x minutes to 32x, then 16x for leadout.

I find 1.03 more reliable.

[dentarg]

Thx for the info.