Hi -- I just got one of these blu-ray burners, pre-installed in an external USB enclosure from OWC. It burns data to BD, DVD and CD flawlessly.

However, when I try to burn an audio CD (CD-DA), the drive burns the lead-in and then shuts down (blue light goes out). Sometimes after a long time (5 minutes, 10 minutes or more) I'll get an 'invalid write state' or 'device unavailable' error. When I eject the disc, it's got a small lead-in ring burned into it. If I put the disc in another machine, it recognizes as an audio-cd but won't play (no tracks have been written).

I've tried this on 2 different computers (Vista Premium and XP Pro), 5 different brands of blanks, and with Nero 7, Nero 8, and Burrrn.

I've fairly computer-savvy (I'm a software developer and also have 10+ years of CD and DVD authoring experience), just to give you a baseline here. It seems to me this might be some sort of firmware issue, since if the drive was defective I'd think I wouldn't be able to burn CDs at all, and like I say, burning data to them works fine.

The drive reports its firmware as B110, but I haven't been able to determine if that's the most current or not.

Any ideas....?

Darin

Use cdburnerxp OR Burrrn for burning CDDA. Not Nero!

The OP has used Burrrn.

I know, thats why I mentioned cdburnerxp.

I've used Nero for years and never had problems, burning many kinds of discs, including hundreds of audio CDs, on dozens of drives. I'm having a hard time believing that's the issue.

Also, as stated, I've used burrrn and it's causing the EXACT same problem as Nero is (also with 2 different machines running 2 different OS's), regarding the drive shutting off. So again, I don't think it's my application.

Does anybody know the current firmware for this drive?

Moved to the "Blu-ray and HD-DVD" forum.

There is no newer firmware.

Thanks chef -- One thing I noticed -- I did pull down cdburnerxp. I did a comparison on the 'Get recorder info' output for the SW-5582 and the regular lightscribe DVD burner I have, and saw that the SW-5582 says that it doesn't support DAO, DAO 96 or CD-Text DAO. It does claim to support TAO and SAO, however, but I wasn't able to burn an audio CD in TAO either. Basically burns the lead-in, then the drive 'goes to sleep'. However, it burns data onto all 3 formats (CD, DVD, Blu-Ray) flawlessly. Very strange that Matshita would not allow the burning of redbook audio... has ANYBODY been able to do this on this drive?

They probably had no intention to invest time on such writestrategies and CD in general ... Maybe that will be "fixed" with later firmwares, but I wouldnt count on that.
If I were you, I would contact DELL and pester them (to force Matshita) to release an firmware update...so DELL could do that aswell.
I wouldnt care about CDDA in TAO mode. Have you tried a data-cd in TAO mode??

How to get the SW-5582 lastest firmware ?