Yamaha CDR 200 Upgrade

Yamaha Upgrade Informations | CDR 200 to CDR 400 | CRW 2260 to CRW 4260 | Firmware

Top of the CDR 200 board:

how-to:

• look when the writer was manufactured, it is only possible with writers manufactured before April 1998
• open the bottom-cover of your 2x-writer (4 little screws)
• turn the writer like the picture above
• lock what revision your board has ( A, B, C or D in a quadrat of the board)
• look where the Resistor R621 (3,3 k) is located (beside the arrow at the picture)
• he Q / D stands for quaddro / doubble
• cut it (with a soldering iron or with a pliers)
• close the cover
• and take your 4x-writer back to your pc - cool !!!
• end
• if the LEDs are blinking use an older firmware

how many cache do you have?:

• Yamaha-writers have in the most times only 1 MB cache
• Traxdata-writers have in the most times 2 MB cache
• writers with the manufacturing date september ´97 and later should have 2 MB
• writers with IC 616 on board have 2 MB cache
• the type of IC 616 is:

  NEC China	oder	Mitsubishi
  4217800-60		*M5M417800CJ
  9708PB073		717CH03-6