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Here you can request new/old firmware for PC Optical Drives.* Attention! You must read and apply to the REQUEST RULES! * Moderators: chef, Puma, devilsclaw Plextor PX-716a - firmware 1.10 buggy - Firmware 1.11 RPC 1? by aatarek on Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:11 am Hello everybody Having problems to read some DVD video since the version 1.10 for my Plextor PX-716a, I was obliged to downgrade to version 1.09. Plextor just released a new version of the firmware compatible with Vista, the version 1.11. I was wondering if anybody has tried this version 1.11 and if this version is already available in RPC1? Since the new Microsoft's policy willing to limit the use of RPC1 drive, we never know if there will be a problem or not Thank you all. aatarek New Member Posts: 3 Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2003 7:30 pm px-716a rpc1 by turtle-soft on Wed May 02, 2007 2:49 pm Hi, based on the 1.10 rpc1 version i decided to patch the 1.11 version to make it rpc1 - well, up to now, wortk's quite well under xp mce sp2. 'will give it a try under vista (ultimate) within a few days - so far i see no reason why it shouldn't work ;-) best regards (just have a look at diskinfo output ;-) DISCINFO VERSION : VENDOR : PLEXTOR MODEL : DVDR PX-716 A REVISION : 1.11 VENDOR SPECIFIC : 15:10 LOADING MECHANISM : Tray SERIAL NUMBER : XXXXXX NUMBER VOL. LEVELS : 256 BUFFER SIZE : 8192 KB INTERFACE : ATAPI RPC2 SCHEME : NO < so it's RPC1 ANALOG AUDIO PLAY : YES COMPOSITE OUTPUT : YES DIGITAL PORT- PORT1 : NO DIGITAL PORT- PORT2 : NO READ UPC CODE : YES MULTISESSION READ : YES MODE 2 FORM 1 : YES MODE 2 FORM 2 : YES READ ISRC CODE : YES READ BAD CODE : NO BUFFER UNDER- RUN : YES MT. RAINIER : NO CAN READ CDR : YES CAN READ CDRW : YES CAN READ CDRM2 : YES CAN WRITE CDR : YES CAN WRITE CDRW : YES CAN TEST WRITE : YES CAN READ DVD- ROM : YES CAN READ DVD- R : YES CAN READ DVD- RW : YES CAN READ.
Cannot Burn to DVD- R Disc with Plextor PX-716 SA Greetings, I am unable to burn to DVD- R media using a Plextor PX-716 SA SATA drive. I have tried using K3b, Brasero, and Nero Linux. What happens is that the first 5 to 6 MB (possibly just lead-in) of the data is burned before the burner gives up and remains locked. I cannot remove the disc, the burning software remains frozen (no response after hitting software 'cancel recording' button and the software process stays uninterruptible and thus unable to kill. The only way to remove the disc is by rebooting the PC. The behavior also occurs if I run a test/simulated mode with the aformentioned software, but nevertheless I've been using Taiyo Yuden 8x DVD- R media. Successful burns and simulations have occurred with DVD+ RW media, CD- R, and CD- RW; I don't have any DVD+ R nor DVD- RW discs to test. Burning on DVD- R has worked excellent in Windows Vista with many software programs. The latest Plextor firmware has been installed on the drive, which is version 1.11. I am currently running open SUSE 11.2 with kernel version. To investigate this further, I've tried burning from the command line using the actual programs the front-ends use to obtain specific error messages, including growisofs, cdrecord (wodim and cdrskin. No succesful burns. For the following tests, the source data has been an ISO image of open SUSE 11.2. Nonetheless, custom data compilations have also failed, along with other DVD images showing similar error messages. Here is some detailed info on the drive: Device location: /dev/sr0 Results of ls -l /dev | grep sr0: Code: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 20:35 cdrom -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 20:35 cdrw -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 20:35 dvd -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 20:35 dvdrw -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 20:35 scd0 -> sr0 brwxrwxr-x+ 1.
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