NEC AD-7170A Media? or Patch?

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#1

:bow: Hi all; This is my first post, so please be gentle! This might sound silly but when i updated my firmware from 1.02 to 1.03, my drive was slave on secondry controller, will this have any effect on the firmware loaded?..
I ask this cos i seem to be having trouble with writing DL, both types of media i use (DATAWRITE) have problems, the CMC MAG D01 (2.4x) appears to write ok but is jerky when played back, and the RICOH JPN D01 (8x & 6x) fails after writing about 60% {5 saucers so far!!}. Single layer seems ok (CMC MAG M01 8x).

Any assistance would be most appreciated

#2

Hi and Welcome!

the only DL media that can be trusted today is Verbatim. So try these and see if that works.

Michael

#3

OK Will try some…
One of my other systems has an ‘old’ NEC ND-2510A and the DATAWRITE ‘CMC MAG D01’ is ok on that one, although it won’t write on the RICOH JPN D01… strange eh!

#4

No. Not strange. The firmware probably doesn’t recognise the media. A firmware update may help.

#5

I have just reconfigured my system with the AD-7170A as master on secondry & flashed with Liggy’s 1.04… Run NERO speedtest and it actually runs this time! {got a strange error message before!}
I will try the ‘CMC MAG D01’ media again & see what happens!

thanks for responses so far

#6

Don’t waste money and time but buy Verbatim DL…