Updating firmware on a Sony DRU500A in a USB enclosure firmware, actually, burning, appears

andy

price, not bad. =)

Well, I chanced it and it appears to be working fine. I can read from the drive fine. I'm going to do a test write shortly.

I hope all went well for you. Personally, I think I'd have gone to the trouble of temporarily chucking it back onto an IDE cable (albeit without actually fitting the unit back into the PC enclosure!), just during flashing, disabling DMA etc. etc.

Anyway, let us all know how the burning went, post-USB-flashing Arky  ;o)

Well, the deciding factor for me was that the same Sony app I downloaded to flash this drive is used on the USB Sony DVD-R's. I had also read their USB models are identical to their IDE models, except they are in a IDE-gt;USB case. It detected the drive and firmware properly, so I just said what the hell and went for it. If it had failed, I could have always taken it back to Circuit City. =P

Burning went great. Burned at 2x consistently, and the DVDs work fine. =)

Cool. Glad everything worked out ok! Arky  ;o)