Sorry I got home last night and had to take the wife to the doctor and didn't get home until about 9 PM, so I didn't get a chance to look or try anything with the drive.
Bob, I did find updates this morning for the Optiarc drive here
http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_result.php?kaj=1&isces
But I'm not going to flash it unless MTU support tells me to do so. I believe this drive has a one year warranty from the factory. But since it is certified for CDG, and I'm not sure at the moment what firmware it has on it, I don't want to do anything that might have a more negative effect on its performance.
The firmware page also led me to here
http://www.sonynec-optiarc.eu/en/sup...ad-series.html
which has an update for the P-ATA, which I am not sure is what this drive should be flashed with although it appears to be the same zip file from the first link for 1.05.