Another thing for Samsung:

A new firmware for SH-W162L should be released which supports the following media with higher speed.

- Infodisc-R20 with TS03 only 4x
- Optodisc R16 with TS03 only 8x
- Prodisc F02 with TS03 only 8x

Got a major problem with Verbatium 16x DVD-R and the Samsung SH-S182D, SB02 firmware.

About 40% of the time, the burns freeze part way through. 9%, 90%, 45%, it seems random.

Burn speed is set to 18x.

Burn software used has been: CDSpeed, Nero 6.6, CopyToDVD, and ImgBurn 2.0.

Same problem with all, and ONLY on these discs. Verbatium 16x DVD+R's @ 18x don't freeze, but the quality is less than desirable.

The Verbatium DVD-R's burn fast & have great quality...but I've wasted quite a few discs so far

sh-s182d SB04 burns 4x MAX with 8x dvd-r rated traxdata valuepack discs.
Yet discs burn 8x in pioneer 111d.

Traxdata is no reliable media. Also the 111 is out a really longer time.

Just use better media.

Why we cannot find Firmware for TSST TS-L632B in the website of Samsung ODD? about 20% of laptops in the market have this!

Have you an Samsung Laptop?
Most likely not; the OEM has to provide support.

I would like to see a new firmware that supports bitsetting DVD+R to DVD ROM.

I know that this is an old post, but just to fix some misunderstandings:
Even some Samsung laptops have this TS-L632B.
For example the Samsung X20 XVM 1730 II model.
It comes with firmware TM31 and Samsung's laptop department officially doesn't have a firmware upgrade unless you explicitly request it, however a firmware upgrade TM32 (slave) has been leaked last year ago.

There's also the TO33 (master, IIRC) and TF33 (unknown) firmware for TS-L632B (in Toshiba laptops?, but TO33 works in Samsung laptops too if the hard drive that is on the same IDE bus has been jumpered before).

Hi,All recent Samsung half height drives do this out-of-the-box.

@all others: please stay on topic. If in doubt, read the first post of this thread.

Michael

I have a SH-S183L. Need more firmware updates please.

My drive (firmware=SB01) does not have bitsetting out of the box. Will you add it to new firmware please.

@Samsung:
Fire your "webmaster" for allowing access to firmware updates for IE users only.

Let me second that, this is not 1990 and pop up windows telling me stories about Internet Explorer and 800x600 pixels are a shame as well as utilizing ActiveX for firmware checks

One more point, please shorten the spin-down time or reduce the drive speed when a new CD/DVD is inserted. My TSST SH-183A (sold as Samsung btw) drives me crazy everytime I insert a disc or reboot my system and updating from SB02 to SB03 didn't help. Sad enough I cannot use one of those tools to reduce it on my own because I couldn't find one for Linux.

Higher burn speed of Yuden T02 for 203B drives. It burns great with patched firmware, why not have it official?

Bitsetting for other than DVD+R, including configuration that sticks.

Better WOPC (I guess), as my MCC 004 media will not write properly on my 203B at default settings. It creates massive errors at the ends of the disc, as it tries to write this media at 18X. It should either default to 16X or notice via WOPC that things are going awry at the end of the disc.

To be honest, Lite-Ons system of WOPC+disc learning seems to be superior to what many ODD vendors provide. On other drives, updating firmware frequently is required to maintain best media compatibility and speeds, while on the Lite-Ons, they learn new media quite well.

Oh, and a firmware updater file format (not .EXE), so that updating can be done outside of DOS/Windows more easily.

Other than that, I'm quite happy with my 203B. Great stuff Samsung.

Just decompress the .exe file with latest 7-zip beta version and you have firmware file and flasher separately

^ Or just rename it to *.zip and open it with your favourite archive app.

I always thought, this was a rar archive since I couldn't extract it with 7-zip stable, but with my older copy of Winrar

I'd really like to have a firmware update for my SH-S202G!

I second that MISTER AL!!!

According to this, the Samsung TSSTcorp SH-223Q ST00 seems to be able to learn (even better than my LiteOn 20A1L):

http://club.cdfreaks.com/2122704-post12.html

Feature suggestion #1:

The ability or a tool to....
... reset learnt data for specific media codes (eg. because of fake media).

... export learnt data:

• as a backup
• to give it to Samsung to collect statistics for a new firmware release
• to give it to other users with the media and same drive

Feature suggestion #2:

(Official) Nero DiscSpeed compatibility and the ability to scan "jitter" (DVD and CD).