Firmware Upgrade For Toshiba SD-R6012 Multi Drive

[Jerry Jones]

I have a laptop from Toshiba with the strangest drive.

The drive model is Toshiba SD-R6012.

Apparently, there are various revisions of this drive on the market.

Toshiba has a page here that is really confusing to me:

http://sdd.toshiba.com/cda/main.aspx?Path=/818200000007000000010000659800001516/818200000111000000010000659c000003c7/8182000006d4000000010000659c0000154c

Two firmware upgrades are available for this drive:

#1

SD-R6012 Firmware download - Version 1034
Update utility for Win 98, Win ME, Win 2000 and Win XP to upgrade the firmware of an SD-R6012 slimline DVD-R/RW drive from version 1030,1031,1032 or 1033 to version 1034
(file: SDR6012-1034.exe)

#2

SD-R6012 Firmware download - Version 1734
Update utility for Win 98, Win ME, Win 2000 and Win XP to upgrade the firmware of an SD-R6012 slimline DVD-R/RW drive from version 1730,1731,1732 or 1733 to version 1734 (file: SDR6012-1734.exe)

My question is:

How do I determine whether my drive actually needs a firmware upgrade?

Where does the current firmware version show up?

I can't find it.

Jerry Jones

P.S. This Toshiba drive is strange; it writes to CDs and to DVD-R/DVD-RW, but it only *READS* DVD-RAM - it won't write to DVD-RAM.

[wkulecz]

Nero 5.5 under Recorder->Choose Cecorder shows the burner firmware revision for my burner in the dialog box that pops up.

You can download the Nero demo from www.nero.com and see if it tells you the firmware revision.

--wally.

[Jerry Jones]

Thanks, Wally.

I found it in an obscure Windows System Management control panel.

Looks like mine did need the first firmware update.

So I simply ran the executable and it seems to have worked.

Thanks again.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net