Patzouille Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 The MATSHITA UJ-822D is full Dual Layer Read/Write. ImgBurn don't see with the device capabilities for the dual layer. Has some one an idee ? See the print screen ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontasciime Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 is it, i thought it was a 2x dual format burner That may be poor translation though, as it appears an asus laptop has this writer in and it states 8x and 2.4 on dl+ Then again back to it being 2x burner and no dual layer support Hate these burners for info http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/04/24/intel..._uk/page11.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus_McFartfinger Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 A firmware update seems the obvious thing to do but I can't find one for that particular drive. Is this drive in a HP desktop PC like a Pavillion or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 The reason the capabilities page doesn't list DL support (if indeed it does support it) is because the drive's firmware isn't reporting that it's supported. In any case, ImgBurn doesn't actually use that info. If you can put a DL disc in the drive and it can recognise it, ImgBurn will burn it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfcrule1972 Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Details on that drive appear a bit sketchy but I didn't see talk of it being a Dual Layer burner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patzouille Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 The reason the capabilities page doesn't list DL support (if indeed it does support it) is because the drive's firmware isn't reporting that it's supported. In any case, ImgBurn doesn't actually use that info. If you can put a DL disc in the drive and it can recognise it, ImgBurn will burn it. Thank you all ... Some informations : - MATSHITA UJ-822D has a "D" because this one is Dual Layer another one drive has only "UJ-822" - No firmware update available from ASUS, Panasonic (MATSHITA) or the other laptop using the same UJ-822D like Toshiba Libretto U100 - Nero tools say the same informations: NO Dual Layer capabilities (Read or Write) - I never use Dual Layer DVD before a friend give me one with photos and movies and ... nothing ! - My Laptop is Asus W5GA17-RW Pro with XP pro SP2 - The Toshiba Hardware info http://www.hardware.info/en-US/productdb/b..._Libretto_U100/ say UJ-822d is Dual Layer .... ??? Where is the information about the DVD burner capabilities ? XP, Bios, Firmware ? ??? Format C: and install XP again ?? Thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Where is the information about the DVD burner capabilities ? In the drives firmware. To be honest, I still don't think the drive can burn DL discs. Where it says dual, it probably mean dual format. i.e. DVD+R and DVD-R. Of course, if as I said above, it will recoginise a blank DL disc, maybe it can in fact burn them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus_McFartfinger Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 The capabilities of your drive have nothing to do with ImgBurn or Windows or any other external software. What your drive can and can't do is governed by the drives' firmware. It's your drive reporting that it can't recognise dual-layered media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus_McFartfinger Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Crap. Too slow again......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patzouille Posted April 26, 2007 Author Share Posted April 26, 2007 Where is the information about the DVD burner capabilities ? In the drives firmware. To be honest, I still don't think the drive can burn DL discs. Where it says dual, it probably mean dual format. i.e. DVD+R and DVD-R. Of course, if as I said above, it will recoginise a blank DL disc, maybe it can in fact burn them. OK Thank you. In the drives firmware, .... and in this case,.... no way ! Bad news for me and again thank you for your help. !! Happy to use ImgBurn just enought for me !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus_McFartfinger Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Save yourself some headaches and grab a Pioneer drive or something. The Matshita drives have never been very popular around here.... or any other forum I've seen for various reasons. They're just a bad drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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