I'm using a TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H652L 0603 drive under Debian stable. I put in a Verbatim DVD-Recordable DVD, and it read it as blank. However, I had put in a Fujifilm DVD-RW, and it wouldn't read under Debian stable.

How do I get it to work? The Fujifilm DVD-RW has the most recent Debian Live distro on it. It wouldn't boot during BIOS startup. I don't know if the issue is my drive, the BIOS, or the discs that I'm using.

I found these webpages, but I don't know how to flash the firmware with a .exe from inside of Debian.

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/sit...tem=pv_44610_1
http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=44768&f=12

update:
I extracted the .exe in Linux, burned the .iso file from the .exe onto the Verbatim DVD, and installed the firmware. The firmware installed, but I am unable to use the DVD-R now to re-record onto. And the DVD burner/player is not using the fujifilm. This may be a drive issue, I believe.

Is the live DVD-RW known to work on other drives or PCs?
How did you create the live DVD-RW?

A DVD-R is not re-recordable. You could append data if it was not finalised.
Looks like just a windows executable file and not an ISO although you could burn it to DVD it does need to rum from windows.