update to how i got on:-

Tried the drive in 2 different laptops that were all able to detect it in the bios and windows, they were a HP Omnibook 6000 and a Compaq Presario 2400. The following was done on both machines with the same results. Booted to DOS, ran necflash -scan and reported no drive could be found therefore the 6500boot wouldnt work. Tried TDB's 6x00A flasher and it worked in DOS on both machines.

So in all, this ND-6500A has failed to work on a desktop and 2 laptops, all of which detected the drive in BIOS and Windows. I therefore had not option to carry out the hardware fix as described in previous posts and this drive now works fine in my Easynote K5 

(in reply to cptdodgermuk)

Why your drive isn't working? I haven''t understood.... You need to install a CD/DVD software in order to be able to use it.

(in reply to cptdodgermuk)

what's de last well-working version?? it's a long long time i dont read this post, im sorry.

(in reply to emperor)

Hi,

First and foremost, thanks to those who as so that I myself can find the answers from those who provide them.

I have the NEC 6500A and had flashed to 2.24 but the device was never able to show 8x on neroinfotool. However I repalced it with 2.02C but not the drive shows 24x write capabilities. How did it jump from 8x to 24x? Or am I reading that incorrectly?  Thanks.

(in reply to emperor)

Hi!
I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a NEC 6500A.

On this device is the Firmware 2.03D.
Is it possible to flash the 2.24(Liggy), so that i can change the book type?

How can I see if my device is master or slave?

THX 4 your answer

(in reply to cptdodgermuk)

Hello everybody,

I have a NEC6500A CDRW/DL DVD+-RW. I had to reinstall windows operating system and after that my system is detecting as TSL462C CDRW/DVD rom. Is there any way to fix this and make my system recognize it as DVDRW. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!!
Suresh

(in reply to emperor)

Hi, please anyone can help me....?

I have a dell Inspiron 6000 with NEC ND-6500A. Before update firmware 203d, I could burn my dvds, but now I can't (I am using maxwell and sony 16X) . Is it the problem of the new firmaware??????  Can I go back to the firmware 202C?????....Wht can I do???????

thanks

(in reply to emperor)

FYI

I have a Dell Latitude D810 with a NEC ND-6500a drive, which came with firmware 203c.  I purchased a 50 pack spindle of Imation DVD-R 16x disks that the drive would reject as bad.  I flashed the drive to firmware 203d from the Dell sight and now I can use the disks, no errors at all!

(in reply to alanoire)

You can go back and forth with Binflash software

(in reply to MacMan)

Hi,
I have a nd-6500a in my acer and winxp also doesn't boot and the drive is not detected in the bios.
I installed the drive into my desktop comp. with a converter and tried the 6500boot but i get errors like "drive not found" or "another error"
I connected the drive as master and also tried as slave but no joy.
The firmware is 203d right now, but also tried 2.58 and 2.22..
Help! :)

(in reply to emperor)

Hi friend! I had installed a NEC 6500 to my old laptop and worked great, the catch is that NEC slim drives need to be master.... So if your laptop has only one IDE channel, and HDD is already master, there is a confict! You can use the reversed ATA firmware either found at this thread or at http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com they have a good archive and instructions how to do it, if you flash with reversed ATA firmware you cannot go back

(in reply to oscarr)

Hey Emperor. 

I, too, have an NEC ND-6500A drive and I've flashed the frimware umpteen times (thanks for all your advice and file attachments...really made this stuff easy for me).  But, with the lastest firmware (2.24 and liggy's 2.24 and dell's 2.03d) I still can't burn any of the media I have...says bad media.  (Fuji 16x, Memorex 16x, Kodak 16x)  Burning works on the older, slower media I have, so I'm sure it's not a drive problem.  I was wondering if you knew, or could tell me where to look, to figure out how to hack the firmware myself to add the media codes for all of the media I have.  Maybe I'll even take submissions from people just as frustrated as me and put all the media I can into the firmware so that everyone is happy.  Any ideas or suggestions? 

Thanks the Emperor, Liggy and everyone else who's provided insight and know how in this thread.  Much appreciated!!

Neptune Perkins

(in reply to alexmacris)

I was also having the same problem burning 16x media. I wasted like 5 or more Dvd's (as it turned out they were still blank, never even burned). I think the problem was the latest firmware 2.24, i decided to go with v2.23 and now my drive burns all my media. Hope this solves your prob.

(in reply to Neptune Perkins)

Hi friends! I do believe that the problem is the firmware, try the 2.23 and see if will solve your problems

(in reply to digisonix)

I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with the ND-6500A burner with Dell's 2.03d firmware installed. I've never had any problems with this burner in the past. I recently bought some new Sony DVD-R 16x media for use in all my computers, and my Dell is not able to burn to those discs. I tried some other cheap Dynex 16x discs I had laying around and those failed too. I don't have any DVD+R discs or slower DVD-R discs available to try. I have tried a Memorex 4x DVD+RW disc and it was able to burn to that. I've tried several versions of the firmware and nothing has enabled it to burn to the 16x media I have. (I know my burner only burns at 8x, but I have the 16x media because i have a 16x burner in another pc)

Is there an issue with the ND-6500A that doesn't allow you to burn to 16x media? If so, can a firmware up/downgrade solve this and if so, what version?

Here is my nero error log
(the second dvd drive is a virtual dvd drive created by daemon tools, ignore that)
------------------------------------------


4C82-Serial Number Removed By MP3Mogul

Windows XP 5.1
IA32
WinAspi: -
ahead WinASPI: File 'C:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\Core\Wnaspi32.dll': Ver=2.0.1.74, size=164112 bytes, created 11/2/2004 2:54:32 PM

NT-SPTI used
Nero Version: 7.0.0.0
Recorder:             <_NEC DVD+-RW ND-6500A>   Version: 203D - HA 1 TA 0 - 7.0.0.0
Adapter driver:      <IDE>                     HA 1
Drive buffer  :      2048kB
Bus Type      :      default (0) -> ATAPI, detected: ?
CD-ROM:               <SZ1441P  EBM794C         >Version: 1.0  - HA 1 TA 1 - 7.0.0.0
Adapter driver:      <SCSI>                    HA 1

=== Scsi-Device-Map ===
DiskPeripheral       : HTS726060M9AT00                  atapi Port 0 ID 0  DMA: On
CdRomPeripheral      : _NEC DVD+-RW ND-6500A            atapi Port 1 ID 0  DMA: On
CdRomPeripheral      : SZ1441P EBM794C         1.0     dtscsi Port 2 ID 0  DMA: Off

=== CDRom-Device-Map ===
_NEC DVD+-RW ND-6500A      D:   CDRom0
SZ1441P EBM794C            E:   CDRom1
=======================

AutoRun : 1
Excluded drive IDs:
WriteBufferSize: 83886080 (0) Byte
ShowDrvBufStat : 0
BUFE           : 0
Physical memory     : 1023MB (1047960kB)
Free physical memory: 634MB (649280kB)
Memory in use       : 38 %
Uncached PFiles: 0x0
Use Inquiry    : 1
Global Bus Type: default (0)
Check supported media : Disabled (0)

23.7.2006
ISO compilation
8:17:21 PM    #1 Text 0 File Isodoc.cpp, Line 6410
  Iso document burn settings
  ------------------------------------------
  Determine maximum speed : FALSE
  Simulate                : FALSE
  Write                   : TRUE
  Finalize CD             : TRUE
  Multisession            : FALSE
  Burning mode            : DAO
  Mode                    : 1
  ISO Level               : 1 (Max. of 11 = 8 + 3 char)
  Character set           : ISO 9660
  Joliet                  : TRUE
  Allow pathdepth more than 8 directories : TRUE
  Allow more than 255 characters in path  : TRUE
  Write ISO9660 ;1 file extensions        : FALSE
 
8:17:21 PM    #2 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 525
  ReadBuffer-Pipe got 262144KB of Memory
 
8:17:21 PM    #3 Text 0 File Reader.cpp, Line 124
  Reader running
 
8:17:21 PM    #4 ISO9660GEN -11 File Geniso.cpp, Line 3304
  First writeable address = 0 (0x00000000)
 
8:17:21 PM    #5 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 3301
  Turn on Disc-At-Once, using DVD media
 
8:17:48 PM    #6 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 277
  Last possible write address on media:  2298495 (510:46.45, 4489MB)
  Last address to be written:                607 (  0:08.07,    1MB)
 
8:17:48 PM    #7 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 289
  Write in overburning mode: NO (enabled: CD)
 
8:17:48 PM    #8 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 2568
  Recorder: _NEC DVD+-RW ND-6500A, Media type: DVD-R
   Disc Manufacturer: SONY16 - D1
   Disc Application Code: 64, Disc Physical Code: 193
 
8:17:48 PM    #9 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 456
  >>> Protocol of DlgWaitCD activities: <<<
  =========================================
  Insert empty disc to write to.
      (Medium in drive: Unknown. Medium required by compilation: DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R DL.)
 
8:17:48 PM    #10 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 846
  Setup items (after recorder preparation)
   0: TRM_DATA_MODE1 ()
      2 indices, index0 (150) not provided
      original disc pos #0 + 608 (608) = #608/0:8.8
      relocatable, disc pos for caching/writing not required/ required, no patch infos
      -> TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048, config 0, wanted index0 0 blocks, length 608 blocks [D: _NEC DVD+-RW ND-6500A]
  --------------------------------------------------------------
 
8:17:48 PM    #11 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1058
  Prepare recorder [D: _NEC DVD+-RW ND-6500A] for write in CUE-sheet-DAO
  DAO infos:
  ==========
   MCN: ""
   TOCType: 0x00; Session Closed, disc fixated
   Tracks 1 to 1:
     1: TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048/0x00, FilePos             0             0       1245184, ISRC ""
  DAO layout:
  ===========
   __Start_|____Track_|_Idx_|_CtrlAdr_|_RecDep__________
         0 |  lead-in |   0 |    0x41 | 0x00
         0 |        1 |   0 |    0x41 | 0x00
         0 |        1 |   1 |    0x41 | 0x00
       608 | lead-out |   1 |    0x41 | 0x00
 
8:17:48 PM    #12 Text 0 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 34
  SPTILockVolume - completed successfully for FCTL_LOCK_VOLUME
 
8:17:48 PM    #13 Phase 24 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1724
  Caching of files started
 
8:17:48 PM    #14 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 4129
  Cache writing successful.
 
8:17:48 PM    #15 Phase 25 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1724
  Caching of files completed
 
8:17:48 PM    #16 Phase 36 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1724
  Burn process started at 2.4x (3,324 KB/s)
 
8:17:48 PM    #17 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 2669
  Verifying disc position of item 0 (relocatable, disc pos, no patch infos, orig at #0): write at #0
 
8:17:48 PM    #18 Text 0 File DVDR.cpp, Line 2469
  Recording mode: Sequential Recording Mode
 
8:17:48 PM    #19 Text 0 File MMC.cpp, Line 21541
  Set BUFE: JustLink -> ON
 
8:17:48 PM    #20 Text 0 File DVDR.cpp, Line 2624
  Start write address at LBA 0
  DVD high compatibility mode: Yes
 
8:17:48 PM    #21 Text 0 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 8385
  ---- DVD Structure: Physical Format Information (00h) ----
  Layer: 0, Address: 0 (0 h), AGID: 0; Length: 2050
   Book Type: DVD-R   (2), Part Version: 2.0x (5), Extended Part Version: 2.1 (33)
   Disc Size: 120 mm,      Maximum Rate: <not specified> (F h)
   Number of Layers: 1,    Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP),  Layer Type: recordable
   Linear Density:         0,267 um/bit,  Track Density:  0,74 um/track
   Starting Physical Sector Number of Data Area: 30000 h (DVD-ROM, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW)
   End Physical Sector Number of Data Area:      26127F h
   End Sector Number in Layer 0:                 0 h (LBN: FFFD0000 h, 4193920 MB)
   Data in Burst Cutting Area (BCA) does not exist
    Start sector number of the current Border-Out: 2FE10 h
    Start sector number of the next Border-In:     2FFA0 h
   Media Specific [16..63]:
        00 60 00 10 20 30 40 50 - 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00    .`...0@P...!....
        00 02 FE 10 00 02 FF A0 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
 
8:17:48 PM    #22 SPTI -1046 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 306
  CdRom0: SCSIStatus(x02) WinError(0) NeroError(-1046)
  Sense Key:  0x05 (KEY_ILLEGAL_REQUEST)
  Sense Code: 0x30
  Sense Qual: 0x05
  CDB Data:   0x53 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 60 00 00 00
  Sense Area: 0x70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 30 05
 
8:17:48 PM    #23 CDR -1046 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1783
  Illegal disc
  D: _NEC DVD+-RW ND-6500A
 
8:17:48 PM    #24 TRANSFER -27 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1783
  Could not perform start of Disc-at-once
 
8:17:49 PM    #25 Phase 38 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1724
  Burn process failed at 2.4x (3,324 KB/s)
 

Existing drivers:
File 'Drivers\PXHELP20.SYS': Ver=2.03.28a, size=20640 bytes, created 5/31/2005 5:36:01 PM (Prassi/Veritas driver for win 2K)
File 'Drivers\scsiport.sys': Ver=5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158), size=96256 bytes, created 8/3/2004 10:59:42 PM (Adapter driver for src)

Registry Keys:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\AllocateCDROMs : 0 (Security Option)

(in reply to cptdodgermuk)

Hi friend! As i checked 2.03d seems to be the latest firmware for your drive. Since Sony 16X DVD-R media doesn't work, i don't expect and improvement, so the best case would be simply to use different media

(in reply to stupidgenius)