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Posted:
Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:11 amby eranros
Ian
Will there be a full review of the NEC 3500A on CDRlabs?
Thanks.
Posted:
Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:59 amby Ian
eranros wrote:Ian
Will there be a full review of the NEC 3500A on CDRlabs?
Thanks.
Yes. I've been waiting for a new firmware update.
Posted:
Thu Oct 07, 2004 10:11 amby bobmitchell
Ian
Based on all that I have read...the 2.17 firmware is official. Have you toyed with it?
Bob
Posted:
Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:34 amby Ian
bobmitchell wrote:Based on all that I have read...the 2.17 firmware is official. Have you toyed with it?
I haven't bothered. Some of my sources have said that they're already testing 2.x9.
Has NEC even "officially" released 2.17 for the 3500? The only version of this I've seen is for TDK's drive.
Posted:
Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:49 amby bobmitchell
I am also having my doubts! The problem with this drive is there are so many "hacked" firmwares...that it is like the little boy who cried "Wolf"
This one's real...no that one's the real one...no this one...It's tiring to read all the different posts and try to make heads or tails out of it. The NEC page does not have a firmware for this drive listed...two days after the supposed "official" firmware was released. I flashed the 2.17 and find no difference from the 2.16...but I do want to flash the "official" when it does come out...so I am most likely going back to 2.16.
Bob
Posted:
Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:20 amby eranros
Just a small questin regarding write speed:
With any firmware that I've tried so far, when there is no disc in the drive, Nero and Roxio show available speeds of x1 - x6 . Is this normal behavior? When I put a disc in, it shows the current speed for that disk. I don't have any x16 media to test.
Posted:
Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:58 amby alexnoe
The NEC's firmware seems to report CD media speeds only if no media is inserted.
As it can write CDs at 8x, 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x and 48x, this results in 1x-6x if Nero thinks those speeds to be DVD write speeds.
Posted:
Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:47 amby bobmitchell
I wouldn't worry too much about that. When I insert TDK 4X discs...it says 8X. When I insert Verbatim 4X, it says 4X and when I insert Fujifilm 8X...it reports 16X...and they are the exact burn speeds for DVD+R. Nero and the drive are very media specific...
Bob
Posted:
Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:52 amby alexnoe
Nero isn't. That's the one single thing you can't blame Nero for