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[Shaolyen]

I know a lot of people tend to search for their burner model numbers when checking for potential issues, so I thought I'd post my findings here.

If you're a NEC ND-3550A owner and you have a Hitachi Xbox 360 drive, you need to upgrade the firmware of your drive to 1.06 before burning backups. (This automatically sets the booktype to DVD-ROM for DVD DL disks.) A lot of people with this burner seem to think that it's not worth bothering trying to burn disks if you have a Hitachi drive, but I've found this not to be the case. Use a good quality disk (i.e. Verbatim), upgrade the drive firmware to 1.06, and you'll likely have perfect results every time.

[djmurf]

I can confirm this.

Nec ND-3550A Factory Firmware 1.06
Verbatim DVD+R D/L
Backed up Gears of War with ImgBurn @ 2.4x

Worked perfectly on my Hitachi Drive.

Murf

[ydgmms]

I dunno what firmware mine has, how can i check.

regardless, it has worked fine stock everytime (except when i forget to patch the SS)

nec nd3550a
memorex dvdr DL
hitachi 47dj (laser tweak)
nme 1.1