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Jan 25, 2005 - NEC ND-3520A Burner - Page 1. In this review, we will compare the new NEC ND-3520A with the Plextor PX-716A. Testing software.
A: NEC has decided that some medias cannot be burned at their rated speed because of quality issues. NEC tends to play it safe, in that, they deem write quality is more important than speed. Another reason why your media may not be burned at its rated speed is, the media might be very new and not yet supported fully in the firmware version you have. In this case you should check your firmware version and check if a newer firmware is available, which might support the media at a faster burn speed.
In all cases your burning application will allow you to select the fastest burn speed for any particular media. The maximum write speed is set in the drives firmware, be it CDR, CDRW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL or DVD-R DL.
Originally Posted by ErikDeppe: I haven't been able to test this myself but it seems that NEC fixed a bug with the scanning interval. To change the scanning interval with Nero CD-DVD Speed the following registry value can be added: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Ahead Nero Toolkit CD Speed CD Quality 'Scanning Interval'=dword:0000008 To compare with other drives following intervals can be used: 8 ECC (to compare with BenQ/Philips/QSI/Pioneer) 1 ECC (to compare with LiteOn/BTC/Plextor) 32 ECC (to compare with AOpen) The colored backgrounds and quality score are changed accordingly. For Windows XP X64 Edition, the following key should be added. HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Ahead Nero Toolkit CD Speed CD Quality 'Scanning Interval'=dword:0000008 For presently unsupported drives: Other options for testing your DVDs with your NEC drive are Nero CD-DVD Speeds' Transfer rate & ScanDisc tests. Transfer rate tests are particularly good to test your recorded media on NEC 35xx series drives, because they will read DVD±R single layer discs at 16X CAV. A: There is no 'best' firmware, this is all a matter of opinion. New firmwares (official and unofficial) are released more or less frequently.
Do some research and choose a firmware that will best suit your needs. Unless you have a specific reason to do otherwise, you should always use STOCK (official firmware) downloaded from the NEC website In the case of rebadged NEC drives, you should download a STOCK (official firmware) from their site.
For an overview of different NEC firmwares including tables of supported media and write speeds, you can check out started and maintained by Liggy. A: Official NEC firmwares are supplied with their own flash utility. In this case having downloaded your firmware, all that is required is to run the application and follow a few prompts. In the case of a modified firmware you will need a flash application. The current favourite one on is by Liggy and TDB's Windows and DOS based flashers. In the case of Binflash, make sure you select the correct drive to flash, then click on the flash button, you will now have to select the firmware.BIN file or.EXE file, then click on open.
A dialog will appear with some info, click on YES if you wish to continue the flash. Allow the flash to complete then restart your PC. In the case of TDB's DOS based flasher, you will require a DOS boot CD or Floppy, which should also contain the TDB DOS flasher and firmware BIN file.
Drives housed in external firewire or USB enclosures usually cannot be flashed from DOS. If all else fails you might be able to remove the drive from its enclosure, connect it to an IDE channel on a desktop PC and flash it.
This may void your guarantee however. For more info you can check out. A: Any unofficial firmware that is not provided by the manufacturer will void your warranty! If you do not know what you are doing, do not flash your drive! Firmware patchers refuse to be responsible for the misuse of a patched firmware. USE THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK.
It is also possible that a misflash can occur, such as a power outage occurring in the middle of a flash or some other occurrence. In this case your drive might not be functional at all!
It is possible to recover the drive after this by reflashing in DOS, but it is not guaranteed to work. A: The Dangerous Brothers (TDB) have many patched firmwares for NEC drives. They will usually have patches for removing video riplock and region coding, other firmwares found on their site has drive ID strings changed, so for example a MadDog firmware will be reported as a NEC drive instead of a MadDog. TDB currently have patched firmwares for the following NEC drives. ND-1100A, ND-1300A, ND-2500A, ND-2510A, ND-3450A, ND-3500A/G, ND-3520A, ND-5100A, ND-5500A, ND-6100A, ND-6500A.
Their site is located. Herrie also has patched NEC firmwares and you can find his site. Liggy has a patched ND-3500A/G firmware based on the official NEC 2.18 firmware with bitsetting, riplock and RPC1 patches, and can be located. Liggy has released a firmware for the ND-3520 drive which supports full bitsetting and PI/PIF scanning. For more details see this. Liggy has released a firmware for the ND-3530 drive which supports full bitsetting. For more details see this.
Liggy has released a firmware for the ND-3540A drive which supports full bitsetting. For more details see this. Liggy also has a patched firmware to enable -R support for the ND-3100A drive. Please make sure you read the first post in the thread for instructions on how to apply the patch. The thread can be located. You may also like to read the modified firmware thread started by rdgrimes and maintained by wesociety and can be found. Another great resource of firmwares can be found at the website.
A: Some firmwares support AUTO bitsetting, in this case all +R, +RW and +R DL media will have its booktype set as DVD-ROM. Other firmwares allow you to manually set booktype. As a general rule, you should set all supported +R media to booktype DVD-ROM. You can do this with Binflash or the NEC WinBtype utility, newer versions of Nero CD-DVD Speed also support this feature. In each case the booktype setting is remembered in the firmware and you will only need to set this once, unless you wish to change the booktype again. Note: In the case of the 1300 and 2500 series of drives Booktype DVD-ROM for +RW worked by using some firmwares supporting RICOH type bitsetting.
This doesn't work on the 3500 series. 35xx series update. A: Riplock is a term used for locking the reading speed on a drive for certain media types. For example a DVD-VIDEO will only read back at a certain speed, somewhere around 4X - 5X. This keeps the film makers happy as you won't be able to backup a DVD very quickly. Another use for riplock is keeping noise levels down when playing back a DVD movie on your PC.
In most patched firmwares riplock has been removed, allowing faster rip speeds, these will generally only affect pressed DVD discs. For DVD5 (SL) the drive will generally reach its max read speed with riplock removed. For DVD9 (DL) the rip speed will be much reduced.
In the case of the ND-3500 series drives, about 7X is all you should expect. Riplock removed can make a drive noisier when playing back pressed DVD's on your PC.
A: It is not recommended that you do this unless you have the proper know-how and tools to do it, and I don't mean a HEX editor, this is not suitable for general firmware patching for 3 reasons: 1) You must know exactly which bytes to alter within the firmware. 2) Should you get it wrong, and you are somehow able to submit a bad firmware to your drive. The drive will most likely be permanently damaged.
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3) If the drive does not enter into 'safe mode' from trying to submit a bad firmware, your drive will 'lock up' and you will most likely never be able to recover it. Some threads are running in the NEC forum at the moment for a few NEC drives.
You should post any questions about these firmwares in the relevant thread. Liggy and Dee LD firmwares ND-3500A/G can be located ND-3520AW can be located ND-3540A can be located With all these speed patched firmwares. The results you get will largely depend on the quality of your media. You flash your drive with any of these modified firmwares at your own risk.
Flashing your drive with any unofficial firmware will void your guarantee. A: Most NEC drives are sold as OEM drives. They will usually be supplied as just a bare drive (no cables or software or operating manual). The resellers purchase the drives in bulk, not including accessories helps keep costs down. If you require cables or software, you should purchase a retail drive if available.
If you can't purchase a retail drive, you should be able to purchase the necessary cables from any good computer store. This webspace was kindly provided by Copyright © 2018 Liggy and Dee, All Rights Reserved.