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Old July 22nd 03, 07:27 PM
Ric
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The problem is the liteon's firmware program will not allow you to downgrade
a firmware, only upgrade. However, I found the solution. There's a little
utility he http://digi.rpc1.org/flashfix.htm that will patch the firmware
program to prevent it from actually checking what's in the drive. This makes
it somewhat more dangerous (you could flash your drive with an incompatible
firmware or accidentally flash the wrong drive) but if you're careful will
let you downgrade your firmware (or flash a rebranded liteon with the liteon
firmware or vice-versa).

Incidentally, after downgrading my firmware to the earlier one, it now once
again burns the same media at 40x with no incident. There's not much info on
the new firmware other than it's supposed to improve overburning. I believe
it may improve compatibility with 90 or 99 min media, but seems to have
affected compatibility with (at least some) slower media. Since I very
rarely overburn I'll just stick with the previous version.

Ric

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Is there any way to downgrade my firmware? Is there any other

explanation
as
to why it suddenly doesn't like my 40x media?


Just overwrite the current firmware with an older version.
As for the burning...i think the software examines the media it writes to,
then decides what is the best burning speed for that blank.

I also noticed that my Plextor Premium would extract audio from pressed
discs slower then i had other discs, it varied from CD to CD.

The same rule might apply to recording media.