External dual layer DVD Burner £59.99 from March 3rd

Bubba_Shaboo

NeilD wrote:

Mike, I too brought one of these drives but have a small problem I wonder could you help ?, I noticed the link for the Firmware however like some others on here I received a Samsung Hardware Drive flashed with a TSSTCorp Revision of FW, And although Nero OEM which is shipped with the drive works flawlessly I cannot get it recognised by some of my older software, Do you think I could use this firmware in the link to reflash the drive ?

I understand the problems that can be caused by failed flashing

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Neil

The link Mike gave was to a software download called 'LiveUpdate'. It seems that once installed it checks to see if there is a newer firmware available and then downloads and installs automatically. Presumably it will detect the TSSTCorp revision and will update if it's kosher. Seems risk-free to me.

HTH

Bubba

mike_paterson

Yes, Neil, I think it might be worth it !
Why don't you try it amnd post back here with your results ?
Cheers
Mike

NeilD wrote:

Mike, I too brought one of these drives but have a small problem I wonder could you help ?, I noticed the link for the Firmware however like some others on here I received a Samsung Hardware Drive flashed with a TSSTCorp Revision of FW, And although Nero OEM which is shipped with the drive works flawlessly I cannot get it recognised by some of my older software, Do you think I could use this firmware in the link to reflash the drive ?

I understand the problems that can be caused by failed flashing

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Neil

NeilD_3

mike_paterson wrote:

Yes, Neil, I think it might be worth it !
Why don't you try it amnd post back here with your results ?
Cheers
Mike

@Mike

I tried the liveupdate firmware but it didn't seem to the the drive on my Firewire port, But I did find this site and downloaded the Samsung firmware from there and it picked up the drive and when I check firmware it showed it as having 03 which is already the latest.

I picked another bare bone drive up yesterday from a computer fair and checked that same firmware TSSTCorp but with 02 firmware so I updated that to o3.


http://www.allfirmwares.com/

rogue_element

I have upgraded the firmware, but this still does not work.
I have phoned Gericom today and they are sending me an address to send it back to......

It doesnt write ISOs, DVDs or Audio CDs, so its pretty useless. I think the problem is between the controller in the gericom box and the CD writer, as I plugged the writer into a spare IDE plug and it worked fine. In the enclosure, it *ucks up. Tried it on 4 computers running various OSs and none of them work properly with it.