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by m.carter

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I would appeciate if anybody can let me know how do you check the firmware version of a CDROM/CD-REWRITER in windows 2000. I cannot find where it tells you the version of the firmware. The only entry I can find does not tell me the entry is says something along the lines of "not avaliable"

Can anybody help?

Cheers

Martin

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by knippi

I think under W2K there is no possibility with tools from the operating system, the only way ist to use the CD-R/RW-program you have installed. Most of these programs have a feature, witch tells you more about the writer than W2K does.
Maybe specialized tools for system-analysis can do it also.

by m.carter

Thanks for the info, I tried this but all the software I have tried does not do this it gives almost every information apart from what version of the firmware. Can anyone point me to a site where I can download a diagnostic tool that tells me the firmware version of a cdrom/cd-rewriter in Windows 2000

Cheers

Martin

by jolly roger

Refer to the web page listed below. These procedures are for HP products but they work on other products as well. Unfortunately, the information is less clearly displayed in WIN2K (it is embedded in the registry). You may have to pull a drive and install it in a WIN9x machine to verify the results so you're confident in them. Good luck!

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