Solution: Samsung CD/DVDW TS-H552U DVD drive
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:46 pm
This drive seems to be popular, so figured I would post this.
By default if you try to burn any data DVD you will get a coaster. What would happen with me is it would just stop burning at about 16%, the drive would spin up faster, then stop, and the light would no longer be flashing and it would eventually bail out and error out.
After 3 coasters I realized it was a bug in the default firmware. So I updated the firmware to the latest version and now it works like a charm.
I also saw on a spindle of DVDs a warning that some brand DVD burners have to get their firmware upgraded to work with the 8X discs. So it most likely has to do with that.
But the discs I was using at first were only 4X (I think).
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3701, old post ID:30064
By default if you try to burn any data DVD you will get a coaster. What would happen with me is it would just stop burning at about 16%, the drive would spin up faster, then stop, and the light would no longer be flashing and it would eventually bail out and error out.
After 3 coasters I realized it was a bug in the default firmware. So I updated the firmware to the latest version and now it works like a charm.
I also saw on a spindle of DVDs a warning that some brand DVD burners have to get their firmware upgraded to work with the 8X discs. So it most likely has to do with that.
But the discs I was using at first were only 4X (I think).
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3701, old post ID:30064