$taples - EIDE Pacific Digital Internal Double-Layer DVD Drive $24.98 no MIRs

[isekii]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: Mint_Boy
These are Benq DW1620 drives if anyone is wondering.

Yup, mine's a Benq. It is longer than the current drives on the market, meaning it probably won't work in really short cases like the X-Qpack (with a normal PSU).

The benq drives are pretty short though aren't they.

Mine seems like an inch to an 1.5" shorter than my other TDK DVDRW Drive.

 

[konakona]

Originally posted by: isekii

Originally posted by: konakona
sorry to dig it out of its grave... I hope you guys are all enjoying your drive. Mine has worked fine now, but since some of you said cross-flashing would give better burns... I finally decided to give it a shot.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f92/n...-g7z9-cvt-file-168564/
according to this thread, g7z9 my drive has is an OEM firmware for 1620, which is IOMagic's equivalent of G7P9, which in turn was a popular one for benq.

BQFlasher wont work for me (error initializing ASPI -> Host Adapter inquiry failed) and B7W9RPC1 from The Dangerous Brothers says the drive is not allowed to be upgraded.

What gives? I am using Vista Business x64 (maybe 64bit is a curse, I hope not)

There is a different way to flash it besides BQFlasher.
I dont quite remember what I did, but I flashed mine.

I think you meant winDWFlahs. Actually mine worked at last once I realized it was the nero's wnaspi32.dll that was incorrectly suggested in one of the threads that was causing all the problem. Once I overwrote the dll file with the appropriate one included in BQFlasher, everything went smoothly and now I have a benq drive