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After doing a bit of research/testing, I've found the firmware c4e released for these drives totally wipes out the write strategy in the firmware for MKM-003-00 media (it's renamed to MKM-0a3-00).

 

As such, MKM-003-00 looks like a totally new and unknown MID/dye to the drive.

 

All the work Lite-On put into tweaking the firmware for the MID/dye goes out the window and instead you have to rely on the drive's 'SmartWrite' feature which basically enables HyperTuning and Online HyperTuning in an attempt to get a decent burn. Sometimes this works well and sometimes it doesn't.

 

You can read about SmartWrite here - http://www.liteonit.eu/en/smartwrite/smartwrite.html

 

You can tell HyperTuning is enabled and running on the drive because the drive LED double blinks during the burn rather than just a steady on/off/on (just enabling OHT doesn't make it do that).

 

The lack of a proper write strategy for MKM-003-00 also means it'll only read/verify up to 8x rather than the usual 12x.

 

You can fix that by using MCSE to rename the MKM-0a3-00 back to MKM-003-00... but then you need to manually enable 'Force HyperTuning' and 'Online HyperTuning' in the eeprom settings (Tools -> Drive -> Change Advanced Settings...) to actually get the thing to burn nicely into the 'overburn' area at the outer edge of the disc (I tried a few tests in Discovery mode with the appropriate number of sectors and kept getting verify errors at LBA 2112480 without them on).

 

Of course once 'FHT' and 'OHT' have been enabled in the eeprom settings, they're on for ALL media (rather than just MKM-003-00) and you may experience worse burns with other media (because it's not using the built-in/default firmware strategies - that's what the 'Force' in FHT means) when just using the drive for normal stuff.

 

Using Opti Drive Control might not be such a good idea at this point... it seems to crash for me when it gets beyond what would normally be the end of the disc. DVDInfoPro works ok though, as does kprobe (but that doesn't update the graph in realtime!)

 

As you comment, I want to understand that with the original Lite-On firmware and using overburning with MKM003 will get better results than with c4eva firm, that's right ? Or there's something more on his firm than a simple media id renamed with MCSE...

[Change Book Type of SONY DVD RW DW-D23A]

from what i can see that drive is a liteon 1653s and can be cross flashed to that. once a liteon you could then find the book type function will work correctly

 

this would be at your own risk though..

 

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=...ghlight=DW-D23A

 

if you have bundled software look at that post and the link to download the firmware, note also that the link says CSOM but its newer than that CSOT after you download it.

 

about the bundled software bit, i read that as if you change it to a liteon drive the bundled software will not recognise your drive, so if that is the case and you want to use the bundled software still, then look at the bit about applying sonyid.

 

 

I'm amazed it's not working if the booktype functions are saying 'Success' when you try them.

 

The 'next write' one is an old command really so i'd stick with the eeprom settings for whatever media you want to change the booktype on.

 

If it's not working, there's not much any of us can do. Try cross flashing to the real LiteOn version as described in the post above by dontasciime.

 

 

Well, finally I decided to crossflashing my drive using codeguys patched firmware for this drive, known as LITE-ON SOHW-1653S.

So finally I could change book type and store the changes in the EEPROM, also while rebooting (not like with the original sony firmware).

I haven't tested yet, but I suppose that all will be ok while burning (just only tested with a DVD+RW) since when rebooting my computer and checking book type in ImgBurn, all settings kept right.

 

Thanks for all guys.

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Do you still have the iso that you burned ?

You can mount this iso using Daemon Tools and try to play it to see if could be played or not. I do this before burn any dvd video iso to check if it plays correctly.

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could you upload the cys3 firmware to rapidshare please rar it if you can first or zip, thanks

 

when you say I'm changing book type to DVD-ROM for all media types using EEPROM option

 

is that actually an option as you can only do it for dvd+r dvd+rw and dvd+r DL

 

Yes, I know that the book type changes is for DVD+R/+RW/+R DL. I was trying to say for all options in LITE-ON tab.

 

I have burned a DVD+RW with book type changed to DVD-ROM and was correctly burned.

 

You could download SONY DVDRW DW-D23A CYS3 Original Firmware here

 

@dontasciime

 

Maybe I'll use OmniPatcher from codeguys to make a custom-patched firmware, just enabling auto-bitsetting.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/12142588/Sony.....stock.rar.html

and here is another util by code guys that will backup up your firmware as well as let you flash etc.

 

Thanks for the Flash utily. I've made a backup of my current firmware. Mine is CYS3 version, different from the one posted at The Firmware Page (same as posted by you)

 

Otherwise, before I'll try cross flashing, I'll test again book type setting with DVD+R and DVD+RW (don't have DL media for now) using ImgBurn only as commented by LIGHTNING UK!

 

 

Tests I'm doing:

 

Well, I don't understand nothing...

 

I'm changing book type to DVD-ROM for all media types using EEPROM option, but while rebooting the computer they come back to NORMAL for all media types (like I said in this post).

I've tried changing to DVD-ROM using option Current Media (For DVD+RW Media), of course, inserting a DVD+RW in the drive. For my surprise when I reboot the computer and I check if the settings are changed or not, for Current Media (For DVD+RW Media) the book type is still DVD-ROM. Is this normal ? What's exactly this option ?

This is the only option that is preserved, but... Why if I select option Next Write or Drive (For DVD+RW Media) the settings for DVD+RW is Normal ????

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But... Firmware and EEPROM aren't the same thing.

 

I want to make a full backup of entery Firmware, the EEPROM is only 1 KB and a Firmware file is more than 1 KB.

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Well, I'm so confused right now.

 

I'm going to try again, but I'm sure that I tried to change values using EEPROM options and while rebooting my computer the settings were changed to normal.

 

Is there any software that allow to change the book type for LITE-ON / SONY drives?

 

I'm going to try changing book type with DVDInfoPro and then burning with ImgBurn. Let's see what will happen.

 

If finally nothing will work, I'll try the cross flashing. Could I make a backup of my current firmware drive using mtkflash ?

 

Thanks to everybody for the support.

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The screeshoot of ImgBurn is from dontasciime not from me

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The last recorded are talking to me that was DVD+R DL...

I'm thinking that is a problem of my drive. I don't understand what's going on, but it seems that the drive doesn't store the changes of the book type.

I'm trying to store the changes in EEPROM and in the next reboot the settings are the default again.

I'm going to try with a DVD+RW, because I don't want to waste more DVD+R DL and don't want to make more coasters.

 

 

I was looking at cdfreaks forums and I found this, I think I'm getting same problems...

The post is this: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=201025

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I've tried it and when I restart my computer the settings aren't stored in the EEPROM while using (for DVD+R DL Media -EEPROM) option, they are still normal for all media types.

 

I've burned two DVD+R DL, one changing book type for DVD+R DL to DVD-ROM using (for DVD+R DL Media). And the second using (for Next Write) option. And the burned media book type is DVD+R DL.

[Change Book Type of SONY DVD RW DW-D23A]

I'm having problems when I want to change the book type of my drive to DVD-ROM while burning DVD+R DL media.

I set the book type to DVD-ROM for next write when I'm going to burn a DVD+R DL, so after the burning process is done I check the book type of the writed media and is not DVD-ROM for my surprise is DVD+R DL otherwise.

I'm changing the book type in LITE-ON tab for the next write.

 

Could be any problem of my drive ? Maybe I'm doing something wrong ?

 

Attached info extracted with DVDInfo.

 

Thanks in advance.