[karyboue]

Hi everybody,

I wanted to upgrade my DVD recorder to the latest firmware but I couldn't have the recorder to read the CDs I burnt.

... a few days later I notice that in fact my recorder can't read any CD of any kind. In fact I never tried before to read a CD on this player.

It reads and burns any kind of DVDs ...


Do you think that the the drive is dead ?
Is it possible that when I turned it to multiregion with my Kameleon remote I did something wrong that made the recorder stop playing CDs ?
Is it possible to buy a new drive and replace the old one ?

Is there another way to upgrade the firmware ?

[ramjet]

none of the suggestions you have made can be symptomatic to my knowledge

it is possible that it is faulty but unlikely that its a region free issue

the fact that it reads and burns a dvd should make it possible to drop the file onto a blank dvdr disk , preferably a +RW disk and upgrade it to v1.65 that way

only the disk method exists for updating the firmware , but I dont see why you cannot use a dvdr disk instead of a cdr or cdrw disk. I usually use a good quality cdrw disk to do this task myself

I assume that you have tested commercial cd,s on it ?

I also assume you have finalised the cd disks on your pc ( one session only ,not multiple sessions , and recorded as a data disk ? )

ie:- maybe its your burning software or something else you are doing wrong at fault ? it is more lilkely to be your burning of disks causing the issue than an actual fault on the machine itself

if it fails to play a commercial cdda disk then it may well be faulty , but as long as it can use a dvd +RW disk then you should manage the upgrade ok

[karyboue]

Thanks ramjet,

I have burnt several "fimeware CDRs" and tried with a CD-RW.
I burnt them "my way" at first then using the 2 methods provided on the special topic on the forum

That's later that I found that the unit couldn't read CDs anymore : no mp3 CDR, no commercial CDs, absolutly nothing on CD.
The drive spins/click/spins/click ... and it never writes anything more than load ... then ejects the CD saying it is not compatible.

I assume the drive might be CD-dead ?

Isn't it possible to replace the drive ? I did it several times on old Mac laptops. I suppose that it is even simpler on a Sony recorder. And the Sony regional repair unit is at 10 minutes from my home. Years ago I had bought them Sony spare parts, the only problem is that they are pretty expensive.



I have no DVD+RW but DVD-RWs.
I'll try that but I have no idea on how to create an iso DVD-RW with the upgrade file ... on a Mac with Toast ?

[Gavtech]

You've still not mentioned whether commercial CD's work to eliminate the possibility that this is simply a compatibility issue.

If they don't:

CD's are read by a separate co-mounted laser, so the symptoms suggest that the laser is U/S.

Replacements are not economic. preposterously expensive and difficult to get.

At least the unit is otherwise working.
I'm not so sure it will be possible to upgrade via DVD- I think CD may be mandated - but there is no harm in trying.

[karyboue]

Originally Posted by Gavtech

You've still not mentioned whether commercial CD's work to eliminate the possibility that this is simply a compatibility issue.

If they don't:

CD's are read by a separate co-mounted laser, so the symptoms suggest that the laser is U/S.

Replacements are not economic. preposterously expensive and difficult to get.

At least the unit is otherwise working.
I'm not so sure it will be possible to upgrade via DVD- I think CD may be mandated - but there is no harm in trying.

It doesn't read commercial CDs.


The unit has absolutely no problem reading and burning DVDs.
I burn approx 10 to 15 DVDs a week from the HDD because I read them on my laptop or another DVD player.


I wanted to upgrade the firmware because my unit has the old bug of inverted L/R channels when burning from HDD to DVD.