- Can only burn at a max of 4X on my NEC ND-2510A
- Posted by Patrick Michael on December 31st, 2004
I'm using a spindle of 8x Ridata DVD-R's that I bought off NewEgg. My drive
supposedly supports a writing speed of 8X to DVD-R. That can be verified
here, as well as other sources on the internet -
http://www.dealsurprise.com/necnd8xdvrwd1.html (note: I bought this drive
from newegg, not this retailer)
However, no matter which burning program I use, the maximum speed it ever
lets me select is 4x. I've verified this with Roxio Easy Media Creator,
Deep Burner, and even the built-in burning feature that comes with DVD
Decrypter. Is this a problem with the media not actually being 8x capable?
This would be very strange to say the least, as I have not had a single
problem with any of the DVD-R's I have burned yet...it's just that they
don't seem to want to burn at the correct speed. It's really frustrating to
spend the extra money for an 8X drive and 8x media and then only get half
the speed.
- Posted by Doug Ramage on December 31st, 2004
"Patrick Michael" <heismanpat@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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It could be the media. Are you using the latest firmware?
--
Doug Ramage
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- Posted by Ken Maltby on December 31st, 2004
"Patrick Michael" <heismanpat@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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This has been reported for some time now. What makes it even
odder, is that the Ridata DVD+R 4X that I bought off NewEgg,
burns at 6X, on my NEC ND-2510A. This is with the stock
firmware (2.15). The disks are RICOHJPNR01 02h.
Luck;
Ken
- Posted by Patrick Michael on December 31st, 2004
"Doug Ramage" <ramage@XXukaccountant.net> wrote in message
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I'm using the firmware it came with, which I assume is 2.15 since it says
this in Driver Details:
IDE\CDROM_NEC_DVD_RW_ND-2510A____________________2.15____\5&211F198B&0&0.0 .0
Is there a newer firmware avaiable that would fix this? And what would I
use to flash it?
- Posted by nick on December 31st, 2004
fully understand where you are coming from we purchased many so called 8x
drives and in the end settled for pioneer 108 this drive burns anything and
everything 4x 8x 16x you name it works splash out on one of these babies and
forget your problems
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- Posted by Octavian on December 31st, 2004
Same here, with the NEC 3500.
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- Posted by Patrick Michael on January 1st, 2005
"nick" <nickwaiton@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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That's all well and good, but I don't feel like buying another drive after I
spent about $80 on this one back in August. What can I do to ensure that I
buy media that will actually burn at 8x in the future? I feel a little
ripped off. I don't know who is to blame..the media makers or NEC, but
either way, it sucks.
- Posted by Octavian on January 1st, 2005
"Patrick Michael" <heismanpat@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I only got 4x on Ritek 8x DVD+R media, until I uprev'd the
firmware to 2.18. Then I was able to do 8x on the Ritek 8x.
And I can do 16x on TY 8x media ... well, the write speed
varies by "zone", so I'm really seeing 12x average. Total
burn time for a full disk is about 6 min 25 sec.
BTW, the original firmware was 2.16. For that firmware,
NEC's web site listed a bunch of media brands and types,
along with the claimed write speed for each. And it showed
the actual write speed for each type of medium, which is
set in the firmware. The results I got (4x writes on 8x
Ritek media) was in agreement with the manufacturer's claim.
Again, the revised firmware produced good improvement.
- Posted by Dave on January 1st, 2005
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:14:08 -0600, "Patrick Michael"
<heismanpat@yahoo.com> wrote:
You can download the latest firmware (2.17) here:
http://www.de.nec.de/softwareovervie...d/557/lang/ENG
You can also get the latest "official" firmware, and several modified
firmwares here:
http://www.micheldeboer.nl/firmware/index.html
The first link also has NEC's recommended media list. You can also
check this site for users' experience with various media and the 2510:
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdwriters....&Search=Search.
If that get's truncated, try http://tinyurl.com/3w8qc
Dave
- Posted by Patrick Michael on January 1st, 2005
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Thanks for the links, Dave. I will check them out.
- Posted by Patrick Michael on January 1st, 2005
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I upgraded to the 'official" NEC 2.17 firmware, but it didn't seem to do any
good. I'm hesitant to install any of the hacked firmwares, but I'm
wondering if anybody on here has had success with them?
- Posted by nick on January 1st, 2005
this has to be a media problem try a good grade a disc we use 8x verbatim
which will burn at 16x no problem
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- Posted by nick on January 1st, 2005
we take it DMA is enabled on drive it's a thought?
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- Posted by Doug Ramage on January 1st, 2005
"Patrick Michael" <heismanpat@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I had no problem burning 4x Verbatim media at 8x on my NEC 2500. These will
now burn at 12x on my NEC 3500.
There is always a risk in firmware flashing - even official ones.
However, I done 4 firmware flashes today without any problems.
--
Doug Ramage
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- Posted by Patrick Michael on January 1st, 2005
"Doug Ramage" <ramage@XXukaccountant.net> wrote in message
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Thanks Doug. Is there any one in particular you would recommend for the
2500/2510? I was reading the cdfreaks forum, and a lot of people seemed to
say that the 2.F8_QB3.rar worked well.
- Posted by Dave on January 1st, 2005
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:27:18 -0600, "Patrick Michael"
<heismanpat@yahoo.com> wrote:
I've tried several of them and finally settled on the Mad Dog 2F8. It
has riplock removed and allows bitsetting on both SL and DL +R media.
There's also a version with RPC1 added for region free.
You might want to look through the NEC forum on www.cdrfreaks.com.
Lots of good info there on the NEC drives.
Dave
- Posted by nick on January 2nd, 2005
is everybody missing the boat here if its a 8x drive then why is it not
burning at the right speed okay firmware upgrade should sort it, but and
here's the but it should burn at 8x out of the box with no mod's?
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- Posted by Ken Maltby on January 2nd, 2005
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It can, but you had to use the correct (listed) media. This is
true for all DVD-RW Drives. It's like the FSB/Memory speed
ratings of your Motherboard, it'll work with the listed memory,
and only might work with other memory that has the same rating.
Luck;
Ken
- Posted by nick on January 2nd, 2005
sorry we were under impression pat had used listed media
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- Posted by Patrick Michael on January 2nd, 2005
"nick" <nickwaiton@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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Unfortunately, I was too. It says right on the box that it's Ridata 8x
DVD-R. Unfortunately, there was no "code" listed anywhere on the box nor on
newegg's site (at least from what I remember). I think these are the
problems that can be run in to while DVD burners are still relatively new.
