Binflash - NEC/Optiarc firmware flasher and dumper

NEC / Optiarc Writer Discuss, Binflash - NEC/Optiarc firmware flasher and dumper at CD and DVD Writers forum; Hi everybody again! At least I could flash succesfully my LaCie DVD±RW, Design by F.A. Porsche 16x usb 2.0 using binflash and the 2.18 firmware from Nec By the way, I have to say that I also could flash after with firmware 2.19 using Nec's flasher (the nec's advice not

Posted: 18-03-2005

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xixonudo (New on Forum): Posts: 7

Hi everybody again!
At least I could flash succesfully my LaCie DVD±RW, Design by F.A. Porsche 16x usb 2.0 using binflash and the 2.18 firmware from Nec

By the way, I have to say that I also could flash after with firmware 2.19 using Nec's flasher (the nec's advice not to use on usb/firewire drives is not applicable to LaCie's burners)

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Posted: 18-03-2005

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,613

Great to hear that it worked for you.

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Posted: 25-03-2005

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pjones (New on Forum): Posts: 2

Hi - thought you might like to know:

I just used necflash 1.13 on my Macintosh OS X 10.3.8 to successfully flash my NEC ND-1300A external Firewire drive with herrie.org's 1.0C firmware. Fantastic! Now I can use the 25-cent discs instead of the $1 ones!

Before this, when I tried to use the cheaper discs, I was getting an error message in Toast, saying "the connection is unstable". Kind of a stupid error message, I guess really it was that the media was unrecognized. Well now it is!

The drive is a Cendyne CDICD00237, which I believe uses an Oxford OXFW911-TQ-A chipset.

By the way, is there somewhere I can get the "official" NEC 10B firmware in a bin file, for use in necflash? I downloaded the one from NEC, but it's inside a Windows installer, so I can't use it on my Mac. Maybe someone could make a dump of it with necflash and post it somewhere or mail it to me?

Thanks everyone....

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Posted: 25-03-2005

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,613

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Originally Posted by pjones

By the way, is there somewhere I can get the "official" NEC 10B firmware in a bin file, for use in necflash? I downloaded the one from NEC, but it's inside a Windows installer, so I can't use it on my Mac. Maybe someone could make a dump of it with necflash and post it somewhere or mail it to me?

Did you ever try reading the first sentence on the Binflash homepage? Maybe this will help you already.

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Posted: 25-03-2005

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pjones (New on Forum): Posts: 2

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Originally Posted by Liggy

Did you ever try reading the first sentence on the Binflash homepage? Maybe this will help you already.

Oh... do you mean that I can just do:

necflash -flash NECND13_10B.EXE B:

...necflash will know where to look inside the windows installer to find the firmware, even on the mac? cool! that didn't really occur to me.

well thanks again for necflash, it's great that the mac is supported with this.

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Posted: 25-03-2005

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,613

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Originally Posted by pjones

That's right. Most firmware flashers contain the executable, simply appended by the firmware file and maybe two more Bytes. And that's something that doesn't differ - regardless which platform you use.

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Posted: 27-03-2005

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,613

I just updated Binflash to version 1.14

It includes support for flashing NEC ND-3530 drives (currently untested) and it adds support for flashing slave firmwares for the Notebook drives ND-5x00 and ND-6x00 (not tested either)

Download Binflash here.

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Posted: 28-03-2005

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Winterstick (New on Forum): Posts: 6

hey guys i cant download binflash
turned off firewall
using firefox
used safari

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Posted: 28-03-2005

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loki7777 (CD Freaks Member): Posts: 138

Try from here http://www.micheldeboer.nl/firmware/ utilities section

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Posted: 28-03-2005

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,613

I just changed the referer check a bit - I hope it works now. But you should really check your system configuration why the referer is not sent.

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Posted: 28-03-2005

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ScorpioSoft (VSO Dutch Translator): Posts: 1,934

When downloading the Win32 GUI 1.14 version this is what I get "necflash_wingui.zipPHPSESSID=15159a12c42700b86ce0c1f623b2714a". After renaming it to 'necflash_wingui.zip' everything works.

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Posted: 28-03-2005

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ispy (CD Freaks Rookie): Posts: 33

Winterstick,
I had the same problem,I posted about it on pages 22/23,it was the Privacy Control in Norton Internet Security that was blocking the DL of BinFlash,just turned it off and no problems.

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Posted: 28-03-2005

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,613

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Originally Posted by ScorpioSoft

When downloading the Win32 GUI 1.14 version this is what I get "necflash_wingui.zipPHPSESSID=15159a12c42700b86ce0c1f623b2714a". After renaming it to 'necflash_wingui.zip' everything works.

Hmmm. Just removed the session stuff again. Didn't seem to work the way it should...

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Posted: 28-03-2005

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Winterstick (New on Forum): Posts: 6

Quote:

Originally Posted by Liggy

I just changed the referer check a bit - I hope it works now. But you should really check your system configuration why the referer is not sent.

yep got it now i need to learn how to use it

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Posted: 28-03-2005

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Winterstick (New on Forum): Posts: 6

oh yeah i have no problems burning cds but on dvd it says "wrinting lead in" and burns about 2mm

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Posted: 31-03-2005

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,613

Binflash v1.15 was just released, which fixes a bug when flashing executable firmwares for 2XXX and 3XXX drives with integrated Binflash.

At the moment only Windows and Linux are uploaded. Mac and DOS will follow after work.

Last edited by Liggy; 31-03-2005 at 14:39.

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Posted: 02-04-2005

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vega22 (CD Freaks Member): Posts: 102

I am trying to flash under DOS whit Binflash but the program does not find my MadDog 2fc (-sec -mas):"devices supported no found" Binflash does not support MadDog drivers (the mine is not really maddog, is nec crossflashed) or is another kind of problem? No problem with Win Binflash

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Posted: 02-04-2005

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,613

-sec -mas sounds like TDB's flasher. Binflash uses different commandline options.

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Posted: 02-04-2005

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vega22 (CD Freaks Member): Posts: 102

- sec - mas it only means that my driver this in IDE secondary master, but I am trying to use necflash.exe, not TDB DOS flasher. Under DOS I am able to see with other utilities all my drivers, but necflash -scan reports "drive supported found".

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Posted: 02-04-2005

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vega22 (CD Freaks Member): Posts: 102

Sorry, reports: "device supported NOT found"

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Posted: 02-04-2005

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,613

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Originally Posted by vega22

Sorry, reports: "device supported NOT found"

Did you load the necessary ASPI.SYS as stated in the README.TXT?

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Posted: 02-04-2005

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vega22 (CD Freaks Member): Posts: 102

I already obtained it. The problem was that I not was installing aspi.sys, in effect. Thanks. I thought that only it was necessary to load that driver if you wanted to use a driver like reader. Now a new problem: it says that I have two supported devices: Mad Dog in 0.2.0 and Mad Dog in 1.0.0 ??

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Posted: 02-04-2005

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vega22 (CD Freaks Member): Posts: 102

Whenever necflash scans under DOS, it obtains two supported devices: an Mad Dog in 1.0.0 and another one in 0.2.0. But I have in fact one only Mad Dog in IDE secondary master and one benq in IDE primary master. I do not understand what I am making bad now

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Posted: 03-04-2005

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vega22 (CD Freaks Member): Posts: 102

I have investigated and probably this is a problem in the BIOS of the MOBO. When change the Nec of IDE and I put it in first IDE (master), binflash under DOS does not have any problem and sends the information correctly of -scan. With the NEC in IDE secondary master, binflasf -scan was hung once even!

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Posted: 12-04-2005

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,613

Binflash has just been updated to version 1.16. This new version only adds (experimental) support for NEC ND3540 drives.

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