By As mentioned in a previous post I recently bought a new Freecom DVDR/RW drive and it wouldn't burn to various brands of media. I ended up paying extra for some 'Zero Defex' media but at least they worked fine in the drive.
Anyway, yesterday I thought back on the situation and trawling around Freecom's site I happened upon a link in one of the support forums for an updated firmware, which they still hadn't officially announced but was available from their FTP server. I downloaded that, flashed my drive and away we now go; the 'Datawrite' that previously wouldn't burn work a dream now. I also took the opportunity to flash the firmware on my Plextor drive to enable burning of 99 minute CDs. I'm unlikely to ever burn to a 99 minute CD but it's nice to know that I can.
I've also spotted my next PC related purchase, beyond a couple of decent sized SATA hard drives. I need some extra hard drive space, especially when I move to broadband, and I have no spare IDE channels so am looking at SATA. I'm tempted by a couple of 250mb Western Digital drives, but think that's probably overkill, and may just buy 2 120gb drives, which actually work out almost 60GBP cheaper than a single 250gb drive. Anyway, the next PC purchase I'm looking at is an LCD display which will slot in to a drive bay. Very geeky, but i don't care; it looks damned cool...
