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“It was total rubbish until I made a firmwareupdate to...”

★★★★☆

written by on 10/03/2009

It was total rubbish until I made a firmwareupdate to version "BYS3". After that it produces nearly no errors - nearly.

After an update to firmware version "BYX5", it works perfect. No even the LED is a Bicoulored one (green: reading, red: writing). The Sony DW-D22A is quick and reliable after the firmware upgrade.

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“The Sony DW-D22A worked great when it worked but it...”

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written by Dtek on 09/01/2009

The Sony DW-D22A worked great when it worked but it stopped recognizing blank dvd's after some time. Used to work fine with my Taiyo Yudens, then tried a different brand after those ran out and it would not recognize them, so I thought it was just picky and I got the TY's again now it does not recognize them either.

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“I have a Sony VAIO VGC-RB45G that came with the DVD RW...”

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written by on 07/12/2008

I have a Sony VAIO VGC-RB45G that came with the DVD RW DW D22A already installed. I cannot do anything with it. I try to make back-up CDs with family pictures on it and it doesn't even recognize that I have a CD in the drive. Forget about burning any CDs/DVDs. It doesn't work.

I found out that it really isn't a Sony product... it just has their name on it. They do not provide any support for this issue and play dumb about it. What is that supposed to mean?

I don't normally complain, but this is crazy. I have spent 30 hours trying to find a solution over the last year...

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“This drive worked great for over 3 years, then it...”

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written by The WB on 24/07/2008

This drive worked great for over 3 years, then it flaked out - it picked and chose when to work and when not to. Loading Linux Live-CD .iso's started to work erradically. Guess it gave up after 3+ years. My first CD\DVD to crap out in all the years of computing.

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“Another Sony failure. Mine worked for short time and...”

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written by on 01/07/2008

Another Sony failure. Mine worked for short time and then stopped. No support or documentation. Terrible product. Why is it at such successful companies just go downhill after awhile and won't support their products?

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“Sony offer no help at all on the Sony DW-D22A DVD...”

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written by mralotof on 09/11/2006

Sony offer no help at all on the Sony DW-D22A DVD Writer. The tech and customer service departments are very unhelpful. The DVD Writer does not read and it doesn't burn.

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“I have used 7 of these in a DVD duplicator for a year...”

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written by joeg on 26/10/2006

I have used 7 of these in a DVD duplicator for a year now, and I have burned over a 1000 DVD's and about 200 CD's, and they have worked very well. I would highly recommend the Sony DW-D22A DVD Writer.

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“It was fun at first, but it would not recognize a DVD...”

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written by gullclaw on 15/10/2006

It was fun at first, but it would not recognize a DVD after 1 year. It also makes very loud and strange noises while loading.

I have a new DVD burner on the way, which will replace the Sony DW-D22A DVD writer, as it's a piece of junk.

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“In retrospect I think my A-open DVD RW DL is a much...”

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written by cychaz on 18/10/2005

In retrospect I think my A-open DVD RW DL is a much better buy than my Sony DW-D22A and comes with extra face plates for color considerations!
These guys want our bussiness Sony is getting to big for it's britches.

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“Bought a Sony DW-D22A and it worked fine for about 5...”

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written by wdtemple on 20/09/2005

Bought a Sony DW-D22A and it worked fine for about 5 months. Now it will not read a blank cd or dvd. No help from Sony. They do not even list it as their product and will not answer e-mail concerning it

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“I bought the Sony DW-D22A burner from a local computer...”

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written by foska on 02/09/2005

I bought the Sony DW-D22A burner from a local computer store in Barbados on 25 May 2005. I started to use it seriously in August 2005. By 29 August 2005 it had failed. Would not read any cds or dvds! I checked the invoice for the purchase of the burner and it said that the drive had a 3 months warranty. I called the store and they told me....sorry can't honour the warranty....even though only 4 days had passed since the expiration of the warranty.
Stay very far away from this drive. If had done my research before I would not have bought it!

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“er...the Sony DW-D22A won't read or burn ANYTHING....”

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written by buchanan17 on 21/05/2005

er...the Sony DW-D22A won't read or burn ANYTHING. Uninstalled, installed again several times. Nope.

A dud from Sony!!

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“I bought a SONY VAIO VGC-RB30 PC that came with this...”

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written by jetrod69 on 27/04/2005

I bought a SONY VAIO VGC-RB30 PC that came with this burner, I didn't use the burner until after my 30 day return policy expired and now that I have tried I discovered that it wont read ANY CD's, I can't get any help from Sony's support sites (canada has limited support for some reason) because their site does not even list this burner, their 1-800-4sonypc help line does not list this pc, and my e-mails have gone unanswered. So now I must send my pc to the retailer for warrenty and wait to see what they say. I will keep you posted on my results.

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“The Sony DW-D22A is brilliant and does everything I...”

★★★★★

written by Qu1979 on 14/04/2005

The Sony DW-D22A is brilliant and does everything I want it to, I've had it for 6 months and had no problems with it so far. :D

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“Purchased the Sony DW-D22A in February 2005, this...”

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written by bsmntcritr on 04/03/2005

Purchased the Sony DW-D22A in February 2005, this drive has never worked. Searching Sony's site for a DW-D22A model of drive returns no results. Apparently Sony will not admit to making it. I have also found similar symptoms on hardware help sites, no fixes were noted there either. It's either a case of high failure rate or the retailer knows they're faulty and are attempting to dump their stock.

Avoid this drive!

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Maddocks's Response to bsmntcritr's Review

Written on: 14/09/2005

Hi i have had my dw-d22a for about 1 year now and have found no problems with it. It writes dvd and cds with great speed and great quality. I had one glitch with buffer under-run but i found out "power Burn" in nero sorted this problem and is the equivalent of buffer underrun protection on other drives out

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