G04/G05 Mixup

[uka100]

Right so I just brought my first DVD writer (NEC ND-2510a) and some of these disks LINK and ran them through DVDINFOpro and got this





Well the RITEKG05 surprised me as they were sold as G04 (the description on ebuyer has changed now and explained this) they say that they made a mistake and put some 8X in with the 4X, so does "RITEKG05" mean mine are 8X discs? When I tried them in Nero it only gave me the option to write at 4x and my burner does support 8x, so i'm confused please help lol .

EDIT: is the 4x only problem to do with my drive having stock firmware and needing updating to be able to write to them at 8x?

[johns0]

EDIT: is the 4x only problem to do with my drive having stock firmware and needing updating to be able to write to them at 8x?

Yup.

[garryheather]

Assuming your recorder isn't 4x. Upgrading the firmware won't double the speed if it isn't designed as an 8x recorder, of course. Firware only improves the media lookup table and won't suddenly improve the optical assembly, dampers, drive electronics and all the other things that might seperate say an A05 from an A07 if you're a Pioneer user, for example.

I don't know how the model numbers work on the NEC's, but Ritek media is widespread enough to probably already be in the lookup table if the writer is cabale of 8x.

[uka100]

Thanks johns0, but garry i'm not sure what you're getting at. My writer is 8X - and + and also dual layer. So what is your reason for it not writing at 8X?

[garryheather]

As I said, the model number on the NEC means nothing to me, and a previous poster just said that the firmware was at fault. Many moons ago when 4x writers just came out, I recall someone posting here that they had bought 4x media and their recorder wouldn't write to it any faster than 1x. Someone suggested updating the firmware - then it would write at 2x, and the poster had a right old whinge that it still wouldn't write at 4x. After we finally got a model number out of him, it turned out his writer was a 2x writer and would never write at 4x no matter what firmware he stuck in it. He seemed to think 4x media would always burn at 4x and wouldn't accept the bigger picture.

If the NEC is a dual layer burner, quite frankly I'm stunned it didn't now about G05's out of the box, because they have been around for a little while now.

[TerminalVeloCD]

Upgrade to the new firmware revision: 2.06. This will allow you to write your new RITEKG05 discs at 2x, 4x, 6x, and 8x.

Regards,
TerminalVeloCD

[uka100]

I'm using version 2.15. Don't tell me 2.06 is newer because of some weird naming system?