I have been running into problems with older firmware on Blu-Ray drives installed in both DISC/NSM and ASACA libraries. The problems manifest themselves in the inability of the drive to write to media from Verbatim and SONY corporation, primarily BD-RE media, and the inability to write to Panasonic BD-R media. This is firmware that is installed on Panasonic SW-5582 model Blu-ray drives. These are drives with parallel ATA interfaces, connected to SCSI thru IODATA cards.
The following firmware levels are known to work with all media we have tested so far:
BKF1 - (ASACA libraries) works with all tested media (TDK, Verbatim, Panasonic, both BD-RE and BD-R)
BKE8 -(DISC libraries) works with all tested media (TDK, Verbatim, Panasonic, both BD-RE and BD-R)
The following firmware levels have produced problems with various types of Blu-Ray media:
BZA6 - only does Panasonic BD-RE (installed at some ASACA sites)
BDB2 - Seen on some DISC and on some ASACA libraries
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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