hello,
for my first post on this forum, let me tell you what i’ve done and can’t undone now 
i know that i’ve made some mistakes,
but i hope that i will find some help on this famous forum
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i have a Sony DW-D22A who came with the BYS2 firmware
i successfully upgraded to a SOHW-1633S with the BS41 firmware found here : BS41 - patched - crossflashing
then i tried an upgrade to a SOHW-1653S with the CS09 firmware found at the same place : CS09 - patched - crossflashing, it was successfull too.
Using Flashfix 1.1.1.9, found here : FlashFix tool,
i flashed the DVD-Writer with the resulting fix firmware CS0C.EXE,
the original can be found here : DR16CS0C.zip
OmniPatcher could not patch this fix firmware, it could not patch the original as well
but i flashed anyway,
and as far as i remember, the result was good
then, and last,
i took the original SOHW-1673S DR16JS02.zip,
using FlashFix tool, i’ve been able to make a fix firmware
that OmniPatcher could not patch
i’ve forgotten to patch the JS02 - stock - unscrambled available at codeguys.rpc1.org
with Fix the “dead drive blink” / Enable cross-flashing
maybe if i had done this, i will not have had the problems i have now
but i flashed the DVD-Writer with a non patched JS02 firmware
and that is the last time i could have an access to the drive from MS-Windows
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the DVD-Writer is seen at the machine post boot with its new “LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S JS02” name
but exists no more in windows
so all the usefull windows flashing tools are useless
even the MTK WinFlash with its IDE MODE doesn’t work
the light of the DVD-Writer is blinking all the time
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before posting here,
i have used mtkflash to try to recover my DVD-Writer
i have tried on ide channel 0 slave and ide channel 1 slave
unfortunately, with all the versions of this program i tried (1.80, 1.80.1, 1.83c), i was in the impossiblity of flashing a new firmware.
i can obtain a response of the program when i make a :
MTKFLASH # SR
Flash Type : SST(SST25VF040)(Serial)
Reading … Finished!(0000)
>>> Please REBOOT your PC !
and then a :
MTKFLASH # W /B /M xxx.bin
Flash Type : SST(SST25VF040)(Serial)
Updating…00%
the program stops at 00%
with 1.83c version,
a MTKFLASH # DR and then a MTKFLASH # W /B /M xxx.bin
does not give better results
a MTKFLASH # UW gives
Port:1f0, Master/Slave: b0
process HOST to DRAM
process DRAM to FLASH
Bank 0 Check Bit
request sense:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
Check Bit
request sense:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
…
and so on
a MTKFLASH # UW xxx.bin gives
Port:1f0, Master/Slave: b0
process HOST to DRAM
Bank 0 Check Bit
request sense:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
Check Bit
request sense:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
…
and so on
with the others options,
there is no answer of the program
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so, what can i do now ?
thank you in advance for your help
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sorry if this post should have been posted @ Club CD Freaks - Knowledge is Power > International Chat: Hardware related > Recording Hardware Forum > LiteOn Forum
thank you