freaky Firmware?

[sharonjpp]

After flashing a dvd rw DW-u14a to a sony DRU 510A (speed increase)
6 mnths ago dvd rw would'nt work not reading or writing got a new 1 (opterite)but left old dvd rw in pc case anyway out of interest connected old dvd back in other day
& windows picked it up as a sony DW - U14A( no such DVD RW) & it works fine
reads & writes don't know if it writes at 8x yet( no media),
is this a fluke & is it stable
any answers welcome

 

[norty303]

Your post doesn't make sense - You said you flashed a DW-u14a to a DRU 510A (implying you had a DW-u14a)

You then say that it picked it up as a DW-u14a (and then say that they don't exist - which they clearly do, as you had one before the flash!)

Sorry if i've interpreted that wrong but anyway, sounds to me like the flash didn't work.

 

[edfair]

Possibly a problem. The case change in the descriptor is significant for something like noise in the cabling or a driver problem. Might be interesting to put in another machine and see how it IDs.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[sharonjpp]

sorry if my initial post was a bit scatty norty303,
the only way I can explain is, I flashed my DW-U14a oem to a DRU 510A it worked fine but I started to get read & write errors after about a week,
I disconnected it left it 6 months reconnected it and now its back to being a DW-U14a without me reflashing it +
now it says sony it didn't originaly,
was it just a bad flash,+ sorry I havn't explained it all very well