I've been running TDB's NEC ND-2510A firmware 2.F8 on my Dell's NEC ND-2100A DVD+RW. All has been great with DVD-R writing so far.

The only thing that I don't like is the bitsetting of the MadDog firmwares. I would like to rewrite the booktype on my DVD+RW's with each burn (for testing backups in various DVD players). I used TDB's firmware 1.31 from the HP 420n but I would like to have the latest writing strategies...like in the 1.33.

Can I use the firmware from here: http://www.micheldeboer.nl/firmware/ND2510A_133.rar
Does it really require the 2100@2500 patch if I flash it from DOS using binflash or even TDB's flasher? I just don't want to mess up the drive if that 2100@2500 patch is doing something special other than allowing the firmware to be flashed.

Your drive has been already upgraded to 25xx series? If so you can use any 25xx firmware even from OEM with binflash

(in reply to tqhoang)