The Firmware Page

no other utilities, just flash the rpc2 autoreset firmware, and use your counter option as normal, when you reboot/restart, the counter will reset to that of what it was, when you flashed it

The AutoReset patch sets the counter to the value it had when flashing the AutoReset firmware. This happens after each drive reset or drive power up. A reboot of your MAC does not reset the drive, IFAIK, so you have to power it down and up again.
No additional counter tools are needed.

Hi there,

My first post in the forum. Actually, I have already managed to patch my drive successfully but since I used information from this forum, I decided to register myself and provide some feedback anyway.

I have a mid-2007 Macbook Pro (2.2 GHz Core2Duo), which is running Leopard 10.5.8. It came with the Superdrive GSA-S10N rev. AP09. I had already set it to Region 4, but had not changed it afterwards, so in theory I still had 4 remaining changes.

I found here the AP12 (Apple) firmware and downloaded it along DISC Info 1.6.1, ASPI32 4.60 and MSCE 1.2.0.3. I used everything on my Windows Vista virtualized through VMware Fusion 2.0.5. (I do not have DISC Info log before patching anymore, though.) I then loaded the AP12 firmware on MSCE, ticked the RPC2 Auto Reset box, saved as a new patcher and ran it. (Note: VMware Fusion warns about an application trying to make direct access, using DMA or something like that. I just click on don't-bother-me-again tickbox and hit Ok.)

It froze my VM for about a minute during patching, but although the rest of Mac OS was responsive I decided not to mess with anything else (also, my adrenaline level was increasing at this moment; first firmware patch not using Apple Software Updater, you know...) Then, after Windows became responsive again, the patched asked to reboot the computer. I shutdown the VM Windows and then the whole Mac OS.

When it came back, I tried Apple's DVD Player without even starting up the VM Windows first. I tried with a Region 4 DVD to check and it went without hassle. Then I put a Region 1 DVD and now it presented me with the screen to change between regions. I changed to 1 and the DVD played flawlessly.

Then I ran the VM Windows and it reinstalled the drivers for the DVD drive. And then I rebooted everything again.

After system initialization, I loaded again the Region 4 DVD and it played without asking questions. Replaced it with the Region 1 disc and it asked me again for region change, which I did. Then I put back the Region 4 disc and was ready to change region again but, to my surprise, it did not ask anything! Then I went back to Region 1 disc and, again, no questions asked. This leads me to believe that Region 4 decoding (the state prior to any patching) is now "permanently marked" somewhere in the drive. But not Region 1 decoding, which I have to manually set for once I reboot.

Now, DISC Info shows this:



And DVD Info X 1.0.2 tells me this:



I hope this is useful for someone out there.

Regards,

bzdm

Hi,

I have a mac book pro (2,2 Ghz intel core 2 duo) running Mac OS 10.6.2 and Windows XP through Parallels Desktop 4.

Firmware version of the GSA-10SN is rev. AP09

Wanted to upgrade from AP09 to AP12 with the drive updater from XP but it failed

Error message in the window is :

Updating was failed. Please repeat that. Error data = F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Of course, I repeated it several times, unsuccessfully...

Disk info says 1.6.1 :

Firmware version AP09
Vendor specific:
Extra info: none
DVD burn device

Drive region status : lock detected
Region setting status: set
User changes left: 4
Manufactor resets left: 4
Current region set: 2
Read speed: 24X
Write speed: 24X

What should I do ?

Thanks

Nicolas

be the issue, parallels doesn't always give full access to the drive, hence the error message, bootcamp works.

Thanks for the quick answer. You are right, Parallels desktop seems not to permit that..

As I am not going to set twice windows XP on my Mac, is there a way to upgrade it through the OSX terminal ? I have seen there is a Flash it OSX soft but I was unable to understand how to use it...

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try devilclaw's utility see if that helps

Anyone know differences between GSA-S10N AP09 firmware and the AP12 (APPLE) and BP10 revisions? Trying to determine if there's any reason to flash to either of those revisions (preferably using the OS X version of devilclaw's flasher utility), with or without making any MCSE adjustments, or just stay with the original AP09.

I've previously flashed a Pioneer drive with newer firmware that had release notes mentioning media compatibility improvements, which made it worthwhile to do. Any details about this newer LG firmware would be appreciated - thanks!

I doubt it would make sense to crossflash with a wrong firmware > BP**.

stay with AP12. Its a newer version of what you have.

It's not obvious the BP10 revision is "wrong" for my drive because, from what I've read, certain GSA-S10N models ship with it (and BP08) installed. Apparently the 'A' and 'B' prefix matters.


That makes sense, similar to how BP10 would be a BP08 update for supported GSA-S10N models.

Noticed the Description on the GSA-S10N_AP12_Apple page says "Flash within Windows Environment", but the 2009.03.24 Date Added is before the devilclaw's flasher utility/topic started. From what I've read in that topic it seems using flasher on OS X will work, flashing only MAIN_GSA-S10N_AP12.exe.bin extracted from the .exe file and leaving CORE as-is. I've already dumped core/main files of AP09 firmware from the drive if reverting is necessary (and hopefully possible).

Any reason not to give this a try? Thanks for the feedback so far.

To make it clear: that is a super slimtype drive and which firmware you can use depends on the setup and connection of the drive in the laptop and the other components, which is regarding the choice of the manufacturer of the laptop.
With many luck you can sometimes trick the drive to make it work as master, or slave (inv/sel). Its explained in the matshita threads.

The AP12 may be newer, but its no secret that Apple always tries to save money by removing some firmware features...

Thanks for the explanation.


I was thinking there's a chance AP12 could actually be a functional downgrade to AP09. Without knowing specific changes maybe it's best to drop the idea of trying AP12.

AP12 should be newer than AP09 of course and therefore be suitable update for your drive.
I see no reason why devilclaws flasher shouldnt work with it.