Hello everyone, I need stock firmware for my iHAS 124-04 D burner. If someone could upload it here, it would be great. Thanks in advance! 
+1, Iāve made a mistake of flashing 8L0A firmware on the drive, it turns it into a pile of garbage! Do not do this!
8L05 can be found here.
http://www.firmwarehq.com/Lite-On/iHAS124%2BD/files.html
Last time I tried it though, you couldnāt even reflash the same version to these drives (I only tried on a iHAS124 C), let alone a previous one.
Same as series āCā. If your have flashed your 124D to firmware 8L0A, you cannot reflash your drive to older and same version firmwares.
First of all, thanks for answering on my topic. I have downgraded my burner with 8L05 fw, now it works ok. 
This last firmware 8L0A got me headache, now it works ok. Thanks again.
Oh, the flasher just worked did it? Or did you have to do something special to make it flash the older version?
Iāve managed a breakthroughā¦?
[B]Iāve just bypassed the drive type check[/B], turns out itās only a simple name check.
Usingā¦ DAEMON Tools. Iāve made a new virtual drive with these device parameters:
Vendor: ATAPI
Model: iHAS124___D (notice the three spaces! it shouldnāt be underscores, but forumās autocorrect erases them)
Revision: 8L03 (this way - starting with the oldest any firmware could be flashed)
I donāt have time (itās nearly midnight in my country) and probably courage to flash my driveā¦ i donāt want to break it up completely.
Also, I donāt remember the steps of the flashing process.
Now Iām on the āWarningā step (This flash ulility only supportsā¦ blablabla). Will pressing āyesā automaticlly proceed to flashing the (virtual) drive? Or could I choose the drives from the list?
It wonāt automatically flash, no.
Youāll get the option to select a driveā¦ but then it may perform another drive/firmware version check and youāll be back to square 1 
āThis drive is not allowed to be updated.āā¦
this isnāt as simple as I thought
Annoying isnāt it!
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Nice going, Lite-On! 
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Me to the same i was flash my liteon ihas 124 d with 8LOA from here
http://www.firmwarehq.com/Lite-On/iHAS124%2BD/files.html
and now i canāt simply restore the first original firmware that wass the 8LO5 because every exe file i run from the above link it tell me that i donāt have liteon ihas 124 drive and doesnāt do anything at all.
So can anyone tell me how i can extract the .bin firmware file from 8LO5 first firmware of liteon ihas 124d drive?
A lot of thanks.
You can extract .bin firmware files for Liteon Drives thru this utility:
āFlash Utility for LiteOn Based Optical Drivesā Version 6.0.1 by codeguys.rpc1.org.
Download it and āRead Flashā and save it to your location in Hard Drive.
NOTE: Donāt write the flashā¦Just read flash and save the .bin file of the loaded firmware.
AND [B]āLITEON iHAS124 D Fix (If you upgraded to 8L0A)ā[/B]
This tool is for those of you that have chosen to update your LITEON iHAS124 D to the 8L0A firmware.
Download from this linkā¦
http://filebeam.com/ce4c76eada64ce8e875bc4f3ec139687
The following procedures will fix the issue.
1.) Run The Flash_Utility.exe and select your iHAS124 drive. Be sure the Flash read size is set to 1MB and āUpdate boot codeā is unchecked. Click āWrite Flashā navigate to the folder you extracted this fix to and select ā8L05.bin.ā
2.) The Flash Utility will usually FAIL writing the firmware. Either way, pass or fail, this fix will still work.
3.) Restart the Flash Utility and select the iHAS124 drive once more. It should now read āATAPI iHAS124 D 0XXX.ā or āATAPI iHAS124 D 8L05.ā Regardless of which firmware version it shows, you are still good.
NOTE: If the drive shows 0XXX as the revision, the MTK Flash chip is erased and the drive is in a status were it will not do anything at all, the green LED on the drive may be flashing at this point. Continue onward, the next step will remedy this.
4.) Exit the Flash Utility and run ā8L05.exe.ā Click āYesā at the Warning and then select your iHAS124 drive and click āUpdateā (green check mark). When this step has finished with a āSuccess!ā, restart your computer and you are DONE!
Yes you can but it was.useless because you canāt restore it.
For restore it you must simply run flash program and choose to flash any 128d firmware without success and then simply close that prg and run the official 8loa.
It will restore to stock fw
Unfortunately FU v6.0.1 cannot read the correct data from C and D series Drives. The content of the read files are just garbage.
EXACTLY THAT MY FRIEND but it helps to restore the stock fw
[QUOTE=ftwin;2671642]+1, Iāve made a mistake of flashing 8L0A firmware on the drive, it turns it into a pile of garbage! Do not do this![/QUOTE]
This tool is for those of you that have chosen to update your LITEON iHAS124 D to the 8L0A firmware.
Download from this linkā¦
http://filebeam.com/ce4c76eada64ce8e875bc4f3ec139687
The following procedures will fix the issue.
1.) Run The Flash_Utility.exe and select your iHAS124 drive. Be sure the Flash read size is set to 1MB and āUpdate boot codeā is unchecked. Click āWrite Flashā navigate to the folder you extracted this fix to and select ā8L05.bin.ā
2.) The Flash Utility will usually FAIL writing the firmware. Either way, pass or fail, this fix will still work.
3.) Restart the Flash Utility and select the iHAS124 drive once more. It should now read āATAPI iHAS124 D 0XXX.ā or āATAPI iHAS124 D 8L05.ā Regardless of which firmware version it shows, you are still good.
NOTE: If the drive shows 0XXX as the revision, the MTK Flash chip is erased and the drive is in a status were it will not do anything at all, the green LED on the drive may be flashing at this point. Continue onward, the next step will remedy this.
4.) Exit the Flash Utility and run ā8L05.exe.ā Click āYesā at the Warning and then select your iHAS124 drive and click āUpdateā (green check mark). When this step has finished with a āSuccess!ā, restart your computer and you are DONE!
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AND [B]āLITEON iHAS124 D Fix (If you upgraded to 8L0A)ā[/B]ā¦
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The putting Drives into boot mode method already posted here one week ago.
Gee, thanks for your VERY informative solution, not giving credit where itās due, and copying and pasting almost word-for-word. 
What exactly is the problem with that 8L0A firmware ?
I see here that NewFish is very successfully using and testing the 124D with 8L0A, so the firmware obviously works fineā¦at least for some but not so for others ???
I Googled a little and there is no other references/mentions concerning problems with that firmware revision, beside the couple of threads here at Club Myce. (Not counting the XBOX community, they have problems on their own, their discs need to be burned in some particular wayā¦)
It seem incredible to me that Lite-On would keep a faulty firmware on their site for more than a month, with no users bad reactions and feedback.
[QUOTE=drapin;2674235]What exactly is the problem with that 8L0A firmware ?
I see here that NewFish is very successfully using and testing the 124D with 8L0A, so the firmware obviously works fineā¦at least for some but not so for others ???
I Googled a little and there is no other references/mentions concerning problems with that firmware revision, beside the couple of threads here at Club Myce. (Not counting the XBOX community, they have problems on their own, their discs need to be burned in some particular wayā¦)
It seem incredible to me that Lite-On would keep a faulty firmware on their site for more than a month, with no users bad reactions and feedback.[/QUOTE]
Its not upto mark.The motor is creating a great noise at āLeadinā at the start of the burnā¦not as of Lite-On standards.The noise does not even stops at the time of āWriting Sectorsā.Tested at 4x,8x,12x with sony and verbatim. We have downloaded the firmware from Here Some are not even able to burn at all.Suddenly motor of iHAS 124 D starts at double the speed of the original spin.It was not there with 8L05 and 8L08 Firmware.Cannot confirm if we can download and upgrade using the āSmartPackSetup1.22.0ā utility from Lite-On site.Not Sure.Reverted back to 8L05(3.10.2012) release and the things are fine.