Pioneer 106 firmware update question

[willrob]

Earlier this spring I updated the firmware in my DVD-106 to version 1.08 firmware. This is one of NIL's, I believe. At the time the word was that it wold gie 12x read speeds, and enable 1x discs to burn at 2x and 3x discs to burn at 4x. While I have 4x discs, I also had a lot of the slower media I was hoping to burn at the faster speeds.

Lately I started wondering if I was actually getting those speeds. So, in Toast, I selected the disc ino and find that 1 x discs can only burn at 1x and 2x burn only at 2x.

I reapplied the firmware update, but am met with the same results. System Info reports the drive has firmware 1.08. Have I confused the initial information? There was also a firmware 1.07 which I never applied. It's info is where the faster burn speeds are first hyped. Is is possible the 1.08 removed those speeds?

[g4cube]

It wasn't hyped just a max possible speed. And the rip speed would stay up there unless you put a rpc-2 firmware on there. The speed will be determined on the media on not the drive once its rpc-1 flashed.
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[willrob]

After posting this question, I went back to the orginal thread here when the new Mac Flash and updates were announced. Back then people who flashed made the claim that they now had doubled the available writing speed—as reported by Toast— from 1x to 2x and 2x to 4x. 4x media was still only 4x, as one would expect given it is still a 106 mechanism. Can anyone with a 106 who did the flash to the 1.08 firmware verify this?

[willrob]

This is the thread I was referring to

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=222601&highlight=pioneer+106+firmware

and here is a quote from "alkaline"

>> Yes your 106 will also take some advantages to be flashed with the patched firmware :

I you'll apply it, to your DVR-106,

- Your driver will be a Rpc1 reader (Zone free).

And, you'll be able :

- to burn at 2x the 1x DVDs
- to burn at 4x the good quality 2x DVDs
- to extract (Ripping) at 12x, instead of the 2x speed tied up by Pionner in its original firmwares. <<

[willrob]

After posting this question, I went back to the orginal thread here when the new Mac Flash and updates were announced. Back then people who flashed made the claim that they now had doubled the available writing speed—as reported by Toast— from 1x to 2x and 2x to 4x. 4x media was still only 4x, as one would expect given it is still a 106 mechanism. Can anyone with a 106 who did the flash to the 1.08 firmware verify this?

[willrob]

In my election year campaign to answer all of my own questions, I downgraded my Pioneer 106 from the 1.08 firmware to the 1.07. After rading the french site, I realized that it was the 107 version that was promised to increase burning speed. And it did. My 1X discs are now reported by Toast as being able to burn at 2x. 2X and 4X discs still seem locked into their "sold as" speeds. I didn't expect 4x discs to speed up, but of the 4 different brands of 2x I expected at least one of them to be able to burn faster.

But upon closer (translated) reading of the french site, I see it is only 1x media that is promised to increase in speed.

"For the 106 (or 106D):
1 - Not-official firmware 1.07 , dézoné, can force the 1x in 2x, and engrave all Dvd-r 2x in 2x, rippe in 12x (patché by > the NILE
2 - Not-official 1.08, dézoné firmware, and rippe in 12x (patché by Gradius)"