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Old March 20th, 2002, 03:49 PM
Bill Spangler Bill Spangler is offline
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Question What is firmware?

what is firmware in relationship to cd burners? I dont see it mentioned any where in your solutions to any problems people are having. Is firmware a non issue. Sorry for my ignorance.
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Old March 20th, 2002, 04:16 PM
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It is my understanding that in a cd recorder, firmware are the programming instructions contained on a ROM chip in the cd recorder that tells the recorder how to respond to commands issued by the software. Some firmware is flash-upgradable meaning you can upgrade the firmware with software on the p.c. (or download from the burner mfg's site), while some are coded into a non-rewritable chip which must be replaced in order to upgrade the firmware.

Given this, I'd guess that any "fixes" would have to come from the burner manufacturer, if their firmware was flash-upgradable, and there'd be little or nothing a software vendor such as MTU could control in that area to, say, make a burner read/write CDG format, which accounts for the bulk of the problems encountered with burners in this genre.

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George

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Old March 20th, 2002, 08:32 PM
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Thank you for the understanding on this matter
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