The Firmware Page

Good evening greetings to all the forums.
I wanted to have information about the firmware for my burner hp DVDRAM GT30L mP06 installed on a HP DV6-6181SL notebbok.
Currently the firmware mP06 mounts.
I'd be interested to reset the RPC2 count.
Otherwise install a RPC1 firmware.
Thank you.


DISCINFO VERSION : 1.7.0 BETA.12
VENDOR : hp
MODEL : DVDRAM GT30L
REVISION : mP06
VENDOR SPECIFIC : 10/03/26 7U01
LOADING MECHANISM : Tray
SERIAL NUMBER : *********** [Cleared]
NUMBER VOL. LEVELS : 255
BUFFER SIZE : 1024KB
INTERFACE : ATAPI
RPC2 SCHEME : YES
STATUS : Set
USER CHANGES : 4
VENDOR CHANGES : 4
CURRENT REGION : 2
ANALOG AUDIO PLAY : YES
COMPOSITE OUTPUT : NO
DIGITAL PORT-PORT1 : NO
DIGITAL PORT-PORT2 : NO
READ UPC CODE : YES
MULTISESSION READ : YES
MODE 2 FORM 1 : YES
MODE 2 FORM 2 : YES
READ ISRC CODE : YES
READ BAD CODE : NO
BUFFER UNDER-RUN : YES
MT. RAINIER : NO
CAN READ CDR : YES
CAN READ CDRW : YES
CAN READ CDRM2 : YES
CAN WRITE CDR : YES
CAN WRITE CDRW : YES
CAN TEST WRITE : YES
CAN READ DVD-ROM : YES
CAN READ DVD-R : YES
CAN READ DVD-RW : YES
CAN READ DVD-RAM : YES
CAN READ DVD+R : YES
CAN READ DVD+RW : YES
CAN WRITE DVD-R : YES
CAN WRITE DVD-RW : YES
CAN WRITE DVD-RAM : YES
CAN WRITE DVD+R : YES
CAN WRITE DVD+RW : YES
MAX CDR READ SPEED : 24
MAX CDR WRITE SPEED: 24

No one knows this recorder?

Try with MCSE >>> http://ala42.cdfreaks.com/MCSE/ and post back.

The problem in this case is that HP never released a firmware update for this drive, and there are no other OEM firmwares available for GT30L drives either. In order to create a RPC patch there needs to be a firmware available first ...

This LG drive is based on a Panasonic chipset so dumping the firmware from it in a format which one could use to flash back is not quite available yet. At this stage it is possible to dump the firmware in a RAW format, but that can't be flashed back to the drive as it is ... you can find more details in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=47776

If you're happy to give it a try, you might want to use DevilsClaw's Flasher to try creating a RAW firmware dump for your drive and post it in the thread I mentioned above ... you can do that by running flasher from a command line with these parameters:

flasher -d 1 -l firmware.bin 1 80000000 00200000

That way at least we would have a raw firmware dump available for GT30L drives, which is far better than no firmware whatsoever.


For the time being though, the easiest solution would be to use AnyDVD to deal with the region restrictions.

If you don't want to use AnyDVD then there might be a riskier last resort alternative: to crossflash the drive to a GT30N model, but if you do that you will lose LightScribe support and won't be able to go back to the original GT30L firmware (since there is no firmware available for it). I would not recommend this for the time being... especially without having even a raw firmware dump available for your drive, so better stick with AnyDVD.

Thanks for your answers. I proceeded to make a RAW dump of my firmware version http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y1TM1FFU I hope will be useful.

See you soon.