The Firmware Page

Hi,my first post,here goes.

Few days ago I got a few princo discs(3).They all failed to burn with the error:Illegal disc,Couldn't perform fixation.After that I tried my cheap noname CD's which BTW used to work before with no problem,I've burned at least 40 of them.I got the same error.After that I tried the slightly more expensive(but still cheap) TDK CD's.It worked fine.I found it strange that my old noname CD's had stop working so I updated the firmware to 1.0K.It still didn't work.I tried again one of my TDK CD's and to my surprise it failed to burn with the same error.I downgraded the firmware to 1.0C and even installed the burner on another Win XP freshly installed PC,still no luck.I was using Nero,but since then I've tried a couple of other apps(Sateira CD&DVD burner) and operating systems(Linux xCDroast) with no success.

The device reads CD's and burns CD-RW(Verbatim) with no problems at all.

Please don't tell me that my answer is more expensive media because it used to work with the ones I have.Let me know if any more info like a log file is needed.

Thanks in advance,
Krste.

try to change track mode....
i had some problems using plextor 24/10/40a when burning disc-at-once/96
try track-at-once




edit: i forgot maybe you'll need to clean your drive

That was it,i cleaned the lense with ionized water and some spectacle cloth and now it works.

Thanks a lot EGRES!

Firmware 1.0K is quite bad for W540E, I dont know why... ! I tested myself a few months ago and experienced reading problems in nero copy mode... low speed selected by default... and no cleaning problems to me.

I recomend that firmware 1.0h is the last stable and seems bug-free version for W540E ! The 1.0K has only a single major feature - capability to read ultra-speed cdrw... no else, so it is not important in my opinion, 1.0h is better.

So, you can find it on my page at the link:

www.andreicioaca.as.ro/utils/fw_cdw540e10h.zip

Is in the original archive form downloaded from teac.co.jp in 2002-2003 not available now... not shure when... I keep it because in the best firmware and corrects some problems. 1.0c is really old... verry old.

In the link do not work, you can try to find 1.0h on www.teac.de in dedicated section... they keep more versions...

So,i took your advice and updated to 1.0h and imagine what?The same problems as before,illegal disc,couldn't perform fixation so after a great combo of foul words i realised that you were right and it was not the cleaning of the lense that helped.One other thing i did the first time besides cleaning the lense was phisicaly removing the burner(Unpluging the IDE and Power cables).So,i uninstalled Nero,powered off the PC,unplugged the burner,booted up without the burner attached,powered off again,attached the burner,booted up with the burner attached and voila,it worked like a charm.

Yep, 1.0h is the last stable firmware, no problems encountred.

Your problem sems to be at interface / IDE... not shure what... but if it works now, is ok. Repet the operation if fails again in future.

how can you downgrade the firmware 1.0k on a Teac CD-W540E