PBDS DVD ±RW DS-8W1P
Hello, I have the above drive and can not find any firmware for it anywhere. It doesn’t seem to read a majority of the media I have tested with it. I am using Nero and can burn only 1 brand so far of single layer DVD and have not found any DVD-DL it will burn. It wont even recognize alot of my dvds burned on other computers. I am considering returning it since this is a relatively new laptop.
Before I do that, I thought I would check and see if anyone has any suggestions.
Hi,
according to your description, this is a laptop drive. The only source for newer firmwares is the support website of your laptop’s manufacturer.
If your laptop is still under warranty, then have it serviced.
Michael
[QUOTE=m0b1liz3;1879725]PBDS DVD ±RW DS-8W1P
Hello, I have the above drive and can not find any firmware for it anywhere. It doesn’t seem to read a majority of the media I have tested with it. I am using Nero and can burn only 1 brand so far of single layer DVD and have not found any DVD-DL it will burn. It wont even recognize alot of my dvds burned on other computers. I am considering returning it since this is a relatively new laptop.
Before I do that, I thought I would check and see if anyone has any suggestions.[/QUOTE]
I used the liteon tool to make it region free but not found to much other data/firmware on the web.
I must say its a very quiet when reading/writing
Puddy
[quote=puddy;1940230]I used the liteon tool to make it region free but not found to much other data/firmware on the web.
I must say its a very quiet when reading/writing
Puddy[/quote]
Hi, I got the same drive, could you please elaborate how u managed to get it work region free.
Thanks a lot. Will give it a try.
It worked! Thanks 
Hello,
I also have this drive and can’t seem to find any firmware supporting bitsetting…
Has anyone found a LiteOn firmware suitable for this drive that supports bitsettings?
Thanks in advance for your answers!
this drive is manufactured by dell.
this is the latest firmware : http://ftp.us.dell.com/rmsd/DS-8W1P_BD1C.zip
Welcome to cdfreaks [I]hefman[/I].
Think drive and also firmware posted are “manufactured” by [B]Lite-On[/B].
(This is a Dell rebadged Lite-On burner.)
Happy burning. 
In case it helps someone else (despite the age of the original post):
I just ran into problems with a DS-8W1P in a Dell SFF PC. The first three Verbatim 16x -R (MCC-03GR20) burns from a new stack all failed (they’d been using Maxell-branded CMC discs up to now :Z).
I updated the firmware from BD1A to BD1C (Dell update R190635) and tried again with ImgBurn, but this also failed (peak PI failures of over 300!):
Yet a disc from the same stack burned fine on my SH-S203B, so the problem isn’t with the media.
I then tried a Verbatim 16x +R (MCC-004) and got a great burn:
Seems to me that this drive has a problem with MCC-03GR20…
good thinking Albert 
