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Erik -> RE: NEC 3500 and OEM official firmware overview (3/7/2005 8:17:14 AM)
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Hello,
I have a NEC 3500AG inside a Lacie Firewire/USB2 enclosure, and I have had the following problems with it :
- When ripping with DVD Decrypter using Firewire, the ripping speed rises up to 5 then starts to drop until zero. Then nothing happens until I turn off the NEC from the power button on the Lacie box. When I turn it on again, ripping restarts from where it stopped. Then it does this all the time, as soon as the speed is more than 5.
- When ripping with the same DVD Decrypter but using USB2 this time, there is no problem. Is it not weird ?
- Now when burning, if I use Firewire, I don't seem to have problems, at least not yet. But recently I have started to burn using USB2 (because I also use USB2 for ripping now) and very often I have coasters ! I use Traxdata x8 DVD-R (Ritek G05) and I burn at 2x using DVD Decrypter (using Nero, I made coasters as well). The failure is always during writing the Leadin, and the error is always "semaphore timeout" ... I have tried to change the I/O interface setting in Decrypter to use ElbyCDIO instead of SPTI, but I also got coaster with a different error, something like "could not write incompatible format ...".
It's really annoying, it seems like I will have to shift connections all the time : usb to rip, firewire to burn !
The firmware in the Lacie is 2.07. It's a bit old isn't it ? Do you think that those problems could be related to the firmware version of the NEC, or is it a enclosure box (lacie) problem and firmware upgrade will not do anything ?
In the case the problems could be solved by firmware upgrade, if I have understood well, I could use Binflash and one of the firmware bin file to upgrade even through Firewire or USB2 ?
Thankx for your help.
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