I hate my DVD re-writer - Democratic Underground

qnr

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Tue Oct-19-04 09:36 PM
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I hate my DVD re-writer

It's a Lite-On 451S and it is a wonderful machine. Writes, Rewrites and Reads almost every format.

But as soon as I write any type of DVD, I have to reboot my computer to get it to burn a CD. Now, for Windows users, this might not be significant, but my uptime right now is


terry@timestorm: /home/terry
21:31:05 $ uptime 
  9:31pm  up 67 days  7:18,  7 users,  load average: 1.04, 1.23, 1.30

Doesn't matter whether I rmmod the drive and then reinsert the modules or anything. I even have the side of my box open with a clip-on fan to assist cooling, and have literally unplugged the power supply to the drive.... doesn't make a difference. :shrug:

Anyway, just wanted to complain, and happened to be here, so, oh well :)

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dave502d

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Tue Oct-19-04 09:44 PM
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1. Go hear,you can flash it to a 832s

Club CD Freaks

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qnr

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Tue Oct-19-04 09:48 PM
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3. Thanks - makes it dual-layer too I think

I've seen them. Don't have a windows emulator on my machine though. Saw it recquired Windows, so I didn't bother. Now, if it writes CD that flashes the BIOS, I could do that on the laptop and use the CD -- is that the case?

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dave502d

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Tue Oct-19-04 10:00 PM
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5. Yes dual-layer

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dave502d

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Tue Oct-19-04 09:45 PM
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2. Also make sure you have aspi installed

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qnr

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Tue Oct-19-04 09:48 PM
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4. I do on the laptop n/t

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dave502d

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Tue Oct-19-04 10:01 PM
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6. I flash mine and it works great now.

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qnr

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Tue Oct-19-04 10:04 PM
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7. Hmm, I believe you, just don't know if I *can* flash it, using

my Linux machine. Well, I'll go download and unzip it and see what is up, thanks.

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qnr

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Wed Oct-20-04 10:32 PM
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10. Well, apparently I'll have to find someone that

will let me install my drive in their Windows machine so I can flash the BIOS, because it does require the drive to be on the machine running the update, and I can't attach my internal ATAPI to my laptop :shrug:

Anyway, I've asked on rec.video.dvd.tech to see if anyone has any ideas - thanks for your help.

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pagerbear

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Tue Oct-19-04 10:34 PM
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8. Hate is an ugly word.

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qnr

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Tue Oct-19-04 11:18 PM
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9. LOL - note, however, that I did compliment it too :) n/t

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