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SB04 Firmware on Samsung SH-S182M

Postby 2Dogs on Wed May 16, 2007 8:38 am

I just discovered that the SB04 firmware in my Samsung SH-S182M has wrecked the drive's performance when writing to RICOHJPN R03 DVD+R media. Previously, with both the SB02 and SB03 f/w, it would write at almost 16x, writing a disk in about 6:40, and CD-Speed disc quality scans would typically show just 400 or so PI failures.

With the SB04 f/w, it can only write at 1.1x - taking about 49 minutes to write to a disk! To add insult to injury, the CD-Speed scans show a huge rise in PI errors and failures - the latter typically 15000.

Fortunately, I've been able to restore the earlier f/w - but is it common for a f/w update to be detrimental to writing performance in this way?
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Re: SB04 Firmware on Samsung SH-S182M

Postby Wesociety on Wed May 16, 2007 10:25 am

2Dogs wrote:Fortunately, I've been able to restore the earlier f/w - but is it common for a f/w update to be detrimental to writing performance in this way?

It's not common, but we've seen some strange things like that happen before... Hopefully they will get in sorted in the next release.
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Re: SB04 Firmware on Samsung SH-S182M

Postby Ian on Wed May 16, 2007 10:56 am

Wesociety wrote:Hopefully they will get in sorted in the next release.


I wouldn't hold my breath. They still haven't fixed the leadin bug.
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