[iainlove]

Hi

I am trying to burn a dual layer dvd using a lacie DVD drive. Each time I do this I get the error message connection not stable error 50. When I searched google I came up with a hit on the roxio help site with a message.id=16015 - 57k How do I locate this thread. It seesm that there's an issue with the NEC 3500AG driver but I can't get any more info. I've been to the Lacie site but can't find any reference to the problem.

[tsantee]

Oddly, some people report that error if they are not using Verbatim DVD+R DL media. Try Verbatim media and see if it works.

[iainlove]

tsantee, on Jan 15 2006, 07:56 AM, said:

Oddly, some people report that error if they are not using Verbatim DVD+R DL media. Try Verbatim media and see if it works.

Hi I ended up solving the problem by flashing the latest firmware onto the DVD burner. This solved the problem.

Details of how to do this are found on
http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/
http://liggydee.cdfr...page/how2flash/
http://www.ralf-pape.../necflashX.html

I used necflash & downloaded the latest nec3500A driver from the liggydee site listed above
There are potential dangers so be careful and make sure that you make a dump of your existing firmware (necflash lets you do this.

I was using imation DVD+R DL this time whereas before I used the Verbatim ones. Thanks for your help.

[reedlaughlin]

iainlove, on Jan 16 2006, 11:13 PM, said:

Hi I ended up solving the problem by flashing the latest firmware onto the DVD burner. This solved the problem.

Details of how to do this are found on
http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/
http://liggydee.cdfr...page/how2flash/
http://www.ralf-pape.../necflashX.html

I used necflash & downloaded the latest nec3500A driver from the liggydee site listed above
There are potential dangers so be careful and make sure that you make a dump of your existing firmware (necflash lets you do this.

I was using imation DVD+R DL this time whereas before I used the Verbatim ones. Thanks for your help.

I was having the same -50 error, even when trying to view disc info, and found this page via google. Updating the firmware on my burner fixed the problem. I have a LaCie external, but the internal drive is a NEC 3500AG - running 2.0.6. Updating to 2.1A is allowing me to burn. Kinda sad that LaCie does not provide firmware updates. I also had to remove the drive from it's case and install internally to get binflash to see the drive.
Also - the link to necflashx is down - I used the command line binflash, found here: http://binflash.cdfreaks.com/