Hi Guys, Merry Christmas at first. I own a DVD DL burner for my laptop, samsung TS-L532A. As in specificatioons it should burn +r and -r at a speed of 8x, +rw and -rw at 4x, and dl at 2.4x. I have noticed that when it burns at 4x it doesn't keep a constant speed, it seems to burn at 2x for 25% of the disc and 4x for the rest, so taking about 18 minutes to burn 4,5Gb. I don't know why, as normally burners use to keep a constant speed when they burn at 4x (they do not the same at 8x or 16x). I experienced another problem, memorex brand discs certified for 4x and 8x are recognized and burned as 2x and 4x, respectively. Maybe do I need a firmware update? Any fixes?
Thank you in advance for answers?

Laptop drives don't burn just like desktop H/H drives do.

Had a 4x NEC ND-5500a. It took about 18 minutes burn a full 4x disc. I heard the 8x 6500a takes about 13 minutes for a full 8x disc. You got to consider the power supply on your notebook is much weaker than your desktop.

Thank you very much for all replies. So I have to expect that slim burners are much slower than normal ones, have I? My normal LiteOn in an external firewire case has got no problem to burn memorex 8x -r in 9 minutes and +r in 7 minutes and 45 scs!!! I've heard from an owner of a Toshiba laptop that it burns 4x in 15 minutes (4,5 Gb), but maybe it was burning at 8x. But the other problem I have is that burner recognizes 4x memorex discs at 2x and 8x memorex at 4x. Maybe I need a new firmware, but it's not available at Samsung website. I've noticed that my burner is not quite present on the web, maybe it's quite a new model. Sometimes after burning at 4x data are not well readable from the burner, I have problems copying data from disc and pasting on hd, I don't knw why.

Hi,

does anybody know if i can change the configuration of my L532A to MASTER with some tool? On my notebook it only works fine as Master (there are problems with CSL and nCSL when booting).


Thanks
Carsten

Could you please e-mail to mspant@ath.forthnet.gr the original firmware for TS-L532A because i upgraded the firmware from http://www.tragant.de/support/treibe...elnummer=94383 (to change it in master from slave) and now it doesn't support DL ((

What was your original version?

I don't remember the firmware i had, i saw another guy had the the TM50 (TS-L532A in china). Still i don't manage to find someone to send me a firmware to support DVD9

Hello! Also I made the same error, the firmware of origin is the TM50. Besides. if you know if there exists or how to create a firmware to engrave Ritek G05 in 8x...

.. sorryfor my poor english... i'm french

try http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/mspant/
it converts the ts-l532a to toshiba sd-r6472

enjoy it

thank you very much !

Now, it's ok

I've also a TS-L532A, with firmware TI50 and want to upgrade to sd-r6472. Which firmware should I use - TR or TU? And how can I back up my current firmware? I've tried with mtkflash but it won't work.

I used TU51, i don't know the way to backup the old firmware, i'd like find it.
(I also want the TI50 for typical reason)

I'll wait updating to TU51 until I've found a way to back up TI50 since there is currently no need for me to upgrade (I don't burn that much). When I've a correct backup, I'll let you know

http://www.tragant.de/produkte/index...elnummer=94383

This link will enable you to flash drive with original software.

Nice try, this link has the fault firmware )

I have an Aspire 1522WLMi with this L532A with TI50firmware - Whenever I burn a DVD (Nero at 2.4X) it tells me everything was alright, but it can never read the disk it has burned (Mirror Platinum +r media). I have tried to change firmware to TU51 - but it still doesn't work. The burned disks have some problem as my external DVD player takes ages to read the disk, making seeking noises, and sometimes it works and sometimes not. Is this a media problem, harware problem or something else? Any help gratefully appreciated!

Did anyone ever find a link to the original TI50 firmware?

Note: this forum also reports some problems:

http://www.cdrinfo.com/forum/tm.asp?...page=1&#101175

I found this:

http://kenny.storageinfo.co.kr/firmware/samsung/

Say's it is SB00 and SH00 - but same date as TI50 - anyone have any info?

Here someone speaks about the ts-l532a with firmware TI51 from gateway ... but couldn't find any hint on gateway.com if they provide an update...
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=57291&page=8

I have the same problem. Did anyone sold this problem???
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I think i did it now. Anyway, do you have any sugestions about my problem?