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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,442; Posted: 02-02-2008

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No problem. We're here for giving stupid answers to stupid questions

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McFlyinCA (New on Forum): Posts: 6; Posted: 07-02-2008

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I just got a Dell XPS M1730 and it came with a Optiarc AD-5560A and I have not been able to find a modified firmware for this drive. What I really want is riplock removed and bitsetting options so I can backup my Xbox 360 games as this is needed. I have read that maybe it is a re badged drive and I saw that Liggy asked for a screen shot of the drive in Nero Infotool so here it is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,442; Posted: 07-02-2008

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This definitely does not look like a drive based on a NEC chipset. On a different forum I could read that the 7530 drive is based on a mediatek chipset. The same could be valid for the 5560. However Codeking's tools were not able to dump the firmware either

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McFlyinCA (New on Forum): Posts: 6; Posted: 08-02-2008

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So until I or someone else figures out how to dump the firmware there is nothing that I can do, correct?

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,442; Posted: 08-02-2008

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Originally Posted by McFlyinCA

So until I or someone else figures out how to dump the firmware there is nothing that I can do, correct?

It's probably rather someone else than you but your help would surely be required

I guess Nero CD-DVD Speed does not allow changing the booktype settings of this drive?

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McFlyinCA (New on Forum): Posts: 6; Posted: 10-02-2008

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I have not tried that and I will do so. I also want riplock off. ripping at 3x should be illegal.

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,442; Posted: 10-02-2008

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Originally Posted by McFlyinCA

I have not tried that and I will do so. I also want riplock off. ripping at 3x should be illegal.

Please check your PM.

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McFlyinCA (New on Forum): Posts: 6; Posted: 11-02-2008

#1233

PM replied. It didnt work though =(.

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,442; Posted: 11-02-2008

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Probably really a Mediatek based drive then. Binflash support should be quite unlikely then.

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McFlyinCA (New on Forum): Posts: 6; Posted: 12-02-2008

#1235

Ah weak. So I wont be able to remove riplock or anything like that then? Oh well.....

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,442; Posted: 12-02-2008

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There are tools available for Mediatek based drives, but I'm not sure if your drive is supported. Maybe this one works for you.

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McFlyinCA (New on Forum): Posts: 6; Posted: 13-02-2008

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Nope, that didn't work either.

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Ruler2112 (New on Forum): Posts: 9; Posted: 17-02-2008

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I have the same exact drive in my Vostro laptop. I haven't been able to burn squat on it without TONS of errors, no matter what media code I use. I did notice that Dell has a new firmware update for this drive though, located below. Don't know if it addresses the problems though - just found it about 2 minutes ago and haven't updated yet.

http://support.dell.com/support/down...id=-1&impid=-1

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beerasreligion (New on Forum): Posts: 1; Posted: 06-03-2008

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Just wanted to say,.... THANKS

I thought I had ended up w/ a 50 pack of coasters, +R media, but apparently newer than my AD3100 (dell OEM) could handle. Used Liggy and Dee's software to re-identify the drive, flashed the 2.1b bitsetting firmware, and the drive has purred. Incredibly happy, thank you for your time and effort!

(great) beer is religion

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koliz (New on Forum): Posts: 13; Posted: 22-03-2008

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HI all
Sorry my bad english

I have a AD-7203a DVD writer with the latest firmware ,105_rpc1.bin ,

with DVD+R and DV+RW discs I cant set the bitseting with the binflash utility.

Why ? im using binflash 1.44 bitsetting only dvd+rdl is acitve

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Dee (Senior Administrator and Reviewer): Posts: 10,323; Posted: 22-03-2008

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Hi koliz
Check you flashed the drive with the bitsetting firmware. The correct version is 1.05bt_RPC1. Also you may like to try setting the booktype with CD-Speed rather than Binflash.

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koliz (New on Forum): Posts: 13; Posted: 22-03-2008

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Thanks Dee

Very helpful ,hungarian :Köszönöm a segítséged .

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jeklnhyde (New on Forum): Posts: 2; Posted: 23-03-2008

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I have a Dell Inspiron 530 I jsut recieved and it has the AD-5170S. I attempted to flash 1m1_rpc1 and it kicked back that the Drive was unsupported. Here is the output:

--- Start of identification ---
Optiarc - DVD+-RW AD-5170S
Optiarc - DVD RW AD-5170S
5131373551313735302E30350000000081000000000000000000000081F5C2BA
FF5EC6D13162E41C5D13E4F600090B8FDACA631080FF1D1C003FCE70C7
--- End of identification ---

It appears to have firmware 101B

Thanks,

JH

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,442; Posted: 24-03-2008

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The AD-5170S already is supported since Binflash version 1.40. If it does not work for you, your SATA controller or its driver probably does not support sending some of the commands that Binflash requires.

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sorceror (New on Forum): Posts: 10; Posted: 25-03-2008

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Originally Posted by Liggy

Currently we have versions for Windows, Linux and Mac, but remember that only the windows version has been tested at all!

Linux version (1.44) doesn't detect my NEC 2510A:

Code:

$ ./necflash -version
Binflash - NEC version - (C) by Liggy and Herrie
Visit http://binflash.cdfreaks.com

Binflash version v1.44
Drive interface v1.34
NEC interface v1.44
NEC internal v1.44


$ ./necflash -scan
Binflash - NEC version - (C) by Liggy and Herrie
Visit http://binflash.cdfreaks.com

List of supported devices:
No supported devices found


$ dmesg|egrep '(hdc|ide1)'
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-2510A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
hdc: UDMA/33 mode selected
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache

I'd really like to get this thing working. Any ideas?

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jeklnhyde (New on Forum): Posts: 2; Posted: 25-03-2008

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Originally Posted by Liggy

Windows x64 issue?

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,442; Posted: 25-03-2008

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Originally Posted by sorceror

Linux version (1.44) doesn't detect my NEC 2510A:
I'd really like to get this thing working. Any ideas?

Did you run Binflash as root? Kernels since (I think) 2.6.9 do not forward the required commands to the drive if the program has no root privileges. Adding one or two "-v" to the scan command will give additional output.

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Windows x64 issue?

Shouldn't be. So far I have not encountered any problems caused by x64 instead of 32 bit Windows.

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sorceror (New on Forum): Posts: 10; Posted: 25-03-2008

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Originally Posted by Liggy

Did you run Binflash as root?

Running as root works (at least it detects it). Is there any later version of the NEC 2510A firmware than 2.19?

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Originally Posted by Liggy

Adding one or two "-v" to the scan command will give additional output.

As normal user:

Code:

$ ./necflash -scan -v   
Binflash - NEC version - (C) by Liggy and Herrie
Visit http://binflash.cdfreaks.com

List of supported devices:
Trying to query device /dev/hda
device BENQ     DVD DD DW1640    BSRB unsupported
Trying to query device /dev/hdc
device _NEC     DVD_RW ND-2510A  2.19 unsupported
No supported devices found

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Liggy (CD Freaks System Admin): Posts: 6,442; Posted: 25-03-2008

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Originally Posted by sorceror

Running as root works (at least it detects it). Is there any later version of the NEC 2510A firmware than 2.19?

At least no firmware that I have and I don't think there is any available. Considering that the 2510 was sold about 4 years ago, I don't think there will ever be a newer one.

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As normal user:

Not interesting as it works with root privileges.

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cowbutt (New on Forum): Posts: 2; Posted: 25-03-2008

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Hi -

I appear to have successfully used necflash/binflash v1.44 under Fedora Core 8 running kernel 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 to flash my ND-3500A from 2.18 to 2.1b. I flashed from an NEC/Optiarc standard .exe firmware file using the following command line:

# ./necflash -v -flash nd3500-dvd/2347_FW_ND-3500A_win21B/NECND350_v21B.exe /dev/sg3

Nice work, especially seeing as Windows 98SE no longer boots on this hardware (too much memory?)

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