Binflash - NEC/Optiarc firmware flasher and dumper

what is command version 2 firmware that dvdinfo pro saying in BT click. "command version 4 is required for full book type support"

This thread is NOT about dvdinfopro. Please try to find a better thread for your questions next time or create a new thread if you can't find a matching one.

The command versions indicate what kind of bitsetting is supported:
1 - Only allow permanent changes for DVD+R DL
2 - Also allow temporary changes for DVD+R DL
3 - Also allow temp&perm changes for DVD+R
4 - Also allow temp&perm changes for DVD+RW

hi
sorry i posted in wrong thred.
i bought a AD-7200S drive a few weeks back and wanted to flash ver1j1BT_rpc1 firmware.binflash detect my drive fine but when i want to
flash it give an error.what is causing this problem.
i upgrade fine with official 1.0B from us site to this drive.any idea what is going on?????

liggy can you help please????????/
V1.0B is all ready out.is there will be any support for this firmware?

Here you can see when new patches will be out (or bettern when they won't)

how can i dump firmware from nec AD-7580s (notebook drive)?
NECWinFlash have no support for this drive, but it may be usefull for many peoples, cause different firmwares exists for this drive (at different notebooks) and everyone wanna have newer\better version

This drive is probably based on a QSI hardware design and unlikely to be supported by Binflash.

Hello Liggy ?Can you help me? Why can't your NECWinflash can compatible with my Optiarc drive ,it's AD 7640a (an OEM Product for Lenovo Y410).Can U fix it?

unfortunately this is also qsi-drive (TDW-081), nobody know how to dump firmware from qsi (nothing works) but dos-flasher is availble, and works to flash for any DVDRW from QSI

What is dos flasher? is it MTKFlash? but my old firmware was lost! how to conventer form .exe to .bin ?

dos flasher means QSIFLASH, original flasher from qsi with support for all DVDRW drive's
ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/rmsd/AD-7580S%20FD06.zip - unpack this archive and find QSIFLASH - this is a flasher, for DOS (it means that you have to boot with dos usb flash drive and use this utility there)
if your firmware is lost you have to find FW for your drive and flash it using this utility. (for example find somebody with this drive and ask to dump FW to bin-file)

Nice to meet U , crossfire!! as you say :"boot with dos usb flash drive " is it here?
http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

Sorry,but i don't know how to back up firmware of an Optical Drive as .bin fife?

yep, i used method №2

i'am too ( i can't do it with mediatek\liteon utilities)

The same time the 1.02 bitsetting version for AD-7240S will be done?

Yup

Thanks Liggy. Looking forward to both.

Not sure if this a problem or not but I noticed that when I just went to flash my 7240S with your bitsetting enabled 1.02 firmware, Binflash (1.47a) started to waste cpu cycles (using 25% of my quad core cpu according to task manager) whilst this box was on the screen (this came up just after it seemed to reset the drive).

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Question
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You are about to flash your drive with the following firmware:

Vendor: Optiarc
Identification: DVD RW AD-7240S
Version: 1.02

Remember no one can be held responsible for any kind of failure!
Are you sure you want to proceed? (y/n)
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Yes No
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Also, if you click 'No' on that prompt it still pops up this box (when I'm guessing it shouldn't) :

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Binflash
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In order for the new firmware to become active, you need to restart your computer.
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OK
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--- Start of identification ---
Optiarc - DVD RW AD-5200S
Optiarc - DVD RW AD-5200S
4732303551323035302E31320000000000000000000000000000000000FF0000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000EF000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000FFFFFFFF
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
--- End of identification ---
Не получается прошить привод, помогите советом.

My message hook while flashing didn't work the way it was supposed to. Made some changes that will be released in the next Binflash update. Looks like I'm quite bad at Windows GUI programming.

BTW: Binflash was not resetting but entering the bootcode in order to retrieve the bootcode version.

Fixed that one too

You're still using an old Binflash version. Please try running the latest version. But it seems that your PC does not forward all commands that are required for flashing to the drive.

any chance you can add support for the sony optiarc BC-5500S? http://www.sony-optiarc.eu/supportse...s/bc5500s.html

Currently binflash can't recognise the drive. It came in my HP laptop, i want to update the firmware which enables 4x bluray reading instead of 2x but hp dont release firmware updates often and i want to try the 1 from optiarc site which could break it so i want to back up my firmware with binflash incase it doesn't work and restore it.

Already tried this but the firmware appears to be scrambled and I don't even know which chipset / assembler language is required here.

I don't know anything about the scrambling used, but in terms of the chipset I opened up my drive a while back and the three ICs used inside BC-5500S drives are:

1. NEC D634 10F1 (0818K3025)
2. NEC C3360GC (0820K3025)
3. PSC A2V64S40CTP (811AFDIL, -G75)

I hope that helps.

Unfortunately it doesn't help as long as I don't know how to (un)scramble the firmware or at least get access to an unscrambled version.

Just dropping by to say thanks to Liggy for awesome job he does with modded firmware and necflash. Not only that it works great, but also this is the only drive that I can flash in Linux.

Respect.