8x speed problem: ridata G05, Pioneer 107D, RecordNow

[mikewillnot]

My system burns Ritek G04's fine, at 4x speed: Windows XP Pro, Pioneer DVR-107D (firmware 1.10), RecordNow-DX (bundled with burner). I just bought some G05's, which are suppposedly 8x, and it only burns them at 4x. RecordNow-DX doesn't allow specific speed settings (only min, max, etc). DVDInfoPro shows the G05's to be
Media code/Manufacturer ID RITEKG05
Media Id Code Speed Unknown
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.0x 2770KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 1.0x 1385KBps
Q: Do I have a problem here? Any suggestions for what to do to get this thing to burn at 8x? THANKS.

[alexnoe]

It means that your drive refuses to burn them at 8x, probably because it thinks they are crap.

[int 21h]

I think alexnoe means that your drive doesn't have a writing strategy for that disc @ 8x. Flash your firmware to 1.18, everything I've read says that your drive requires that to write those discs faster than 4x.

You can find firmware for your drive here: http://gradius.rpc1.org/

I would recommend using the one that just has RPC-1 and ripping unlock... but if you're brave you can attempt to use the one that has the 8x For All media hack.

[mikewillnot]

Thanks for the input, there, alexnoe -- and for the relatively gracious response, int 21h, as well. Turns out the flash upgrade did the trick.

[TuRiSOft]

w/NEC 3500 and Liggy's 2.27 beta8 I burn them at 12@ flawlessly.

Here's a Kprobe scan of them!!!

[alexnoe]

flawless scan:
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~noe/PlexTools_Prof_Scans/DVD/pio108_scan_mcc002-00_at_8x_all.png

[mudda_t]

... Pioneer DVR-107D (firmware 1.10), RecordNow-DX (bundled with burner)...
Out of curiosity what version of recordnow-dx came with your drive?

[mikewillnot]

RecordNow DX 4.60, build 450B47a.408.032(SSS)

Slightly off-thread, perhaps: Lately the drive seems to be consistently trashing any -RW media I throw into it. Initially it doesn't even see the media. If I put in a used disc (already formatted, etc) it sees, and will burn, the disc, but the result is a trashed disc that the drive will no longer see. Grrrr. Dunno yet if it's a media problem or a burner problem. I moved the burner from one machine to another, prior to this problem appearing.