Flashing my External NEC DVDRW ND-3500 to recognize 16x

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brettotte

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13. August 2007 @ 23:12

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Hi. It's been years since I flashed my EXTERNAL USB/FIREWIRE NEC DVD RW ND-3500AG to 2.17 and today I got some 16x DVD-R's and they won't burn with DVD Shrink & Nero 7. It says the media type isn't compatible.

I found software to flash it to version 2.1A here:

http://support.necam.com/Optical/downloa...readme.asp?ID=6

The DVD-R's DO BURN on my internal 2x Toshiba SD-R6112 ATA at 1x, so I KNOW these will burn at a slower speed & it's not Vista, it's not the DVD's being "bad", it's probably the firmware being old.

My worry is that on the link above it says:

The above NEC firmware upgrades should not be used with external USB / FireWire drives or with OEM drives from HP, DELL, Medion, Fujitsu, Siemens, Gateway, or any other OEM manufacturer.

I have an external burner that I purchased and put it in a separate case that I purchased as well. I'd never attempted anything like that and it was rather simple.

I realize I MUST have flashed it externally years ago, but it says on that link about device location being master or slave and when I go to the Vista Device Manager it says "Location: on USB Mass Storage Device"

Does that even matter? I opened the update and I see this:

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