UJDA 7xx autopatcher (bootCD) - mpatch v2.0!!! ;)

sdf · **Joined:** Wed Jul 21, 2004 11:28 pm **Posts:** 2

Hello to everyone!!
I have a Nec ***** M300 P4m2G with a FDD W2k Pro SP4 plus the Loonatic UJDA 730 fw v.1 instead of 16X i only burn cd's at 8X but the wierd thing is that the verbatim cd's burns them perfect 16X+overburn.
My problem is that i can't create the AutoPatch cd.That's why here is the screeshot from the command line.

BCD: Checking for required files:
BCD: Processing (main) config file "bcd.cfg"
BCD: Application set to "BCD/MKISOFS"
BCD: System set to "Win32"
BCD: Processing (CD) config file "cds\mpatch\bcd.cfg"
BCD: Bootfile set to "mpatch.img"
BCD: Cdrecordargs set to "-multi -eject"
BCD: No mkisofs options, adding "-J -N"
BCD: Processing bootdisk config file "cds\mpatch\bootdisk.cfg"
BCD: Bootimage "mpatch.img" does not exist, let's create it now!
'bfd.cmd' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
BCD: Bootfile is "mpatch.img"
BCD: Bootfile "cds\mpatch\files\mpatch.img" not found
BCD: Aborted...

Can anyone Help me?Thanks

>NIL: · **Posted:** Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:38 am

sdf wrote:

'bfd.cmd' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Are you sure you foloowed the steps exactly and downloaded and extracted all the appropriate files (you should then have a bfd.cmd AND a bcd.cmd in the same directory)
Have you opened a command prompt in the direvtory where you find bfd.cmd and launched the command from here?

Re-read the instruction more closely. You'll probably find out that you missed something.

bartender · **Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 3:00 am

Hello

I tried MPATCH with my IBM Thinkpad T41P UJDA 755z Combo drive, without success.

The message I get is:

Drive Information:
Description - UJDA755zDVD/CDRW
Manufacturer - MATSHITA
Firmware Rev. - 1.20
Extra Info. - 312190KME14931593321

Now reading firmware...
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
|============|============|============|============| Error P01.
Could not patch firmware!

I have extracted the firmware (with the filenamed of

>NIL: · **Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 3:03 am

Sure. My thought is that I think I specified somewhere that it works only for the 710/720/730.
74x and 75x are NO_GO.

bartender · **Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 3:16 am

Ok, so that means that there isn't much I can do about it eh?

I have the unscrambled firmware downloaded, can you do anything with that, or would the drvloadc not work with it anyway???

Any thoughts as to when/if it will be supported????

Many thanks for a great product. I have used it on an older laptop of mine that had a UDJA 710 and it worked a charm, it's just a shame that I got this brand new one with a new drive.

cadwizzard · **Joined:** Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:30 am **Posts:** 1

Hi all, i have a UJDA710 1.50 (Tiny laptop A360+) on SM

I flashed it sometime ago with mpatch and i lost CD-RW, cant read a lot of cdr's and cant burn at all.

Will using the new mpatch 2 fix this or should i reflash original sw back onto it first (the dump was lost with system crash (Does anyone have a 1.50 firmware? maybe 1.51 will be ok?)

I used drvloadc.exe to flash before but i lost all the command line arguments i had too, could someone plse help me?

What do i need and what must i do to fix it, i wish i had waited and saved the problems, but unfortunatly i didnt

Many thanks,

Cad

arkham79 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:58 pm

>NIL: wrote:

Well I don't think there is any solution for IEEE 1394 UJDA users.

*snip*

THE ONLY GENERIC FLASHER WE HAVE GOT FROM MATSHITA (DRVLOADC) SUPPORTS ONLY IDE DRIVES, NOT IEEE 1394.

Therefore, even if you have the patched firmware out of mpatch, you won't be able to flash.

The bootCD works only for internal IDE drives.

This is something we can work around, though it does require a separate machine to mount the drive in to do it. You essentially convert the IEEE1394 drive into an internal IDE drive. I have a quick guide on how to do it at http://comerford.cc/flashdvd - this is done with an older version of mpatch but the principle still applies. I may re-flash my drive with the new method soon and will post an updated page if/when I do so.

John Coxon · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:00 pm **Posts:** 4

I downloaded bcd full package v1.1.1, bfd full package v1.0.7, and wnaspi32.dll. I extracted bcd to C:\bcd, then copied wnaspi32.dll to C:\bcd\bin. I then extracted bfd 1.0.7 to C:\bcd, letting it overwrite all files of the same name which were already there. I extracted all the subdirectories (which were in C:\bcd\cabs, C:\bcd\cabs\drivers\ndis, C:\bcd\cabs\drivers\aspi, C:\bcd\cabs\os\md701), extracting each archive to a folder of the same name.

Then I downloaded mpatch.zip and extracted it to C:\bcd.

I now go to Run and type "command" to access the command prompt, type "cd\bcd" to change to the bcd folder, and then type "bcd mpatch". What I get back is "bad command or file name".

Now, I am trying to create the boot cd on a computer which does not have the dvd drive I am trying to patch. The dvd drive is an UJDA 740 on my laptop and I'm trying to write the cd on the desktop. Will this cause a problem?

And why is the command prompt returning "bad command or file name"?

Please help. Thanks in advance, John.

>NIL: · **Posted:** Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:11 pm

could be due to Windows 9x/Me not recognizing the .cmd extension.
If you have a file bcd.cmd in your bcd directory, it should at least start to run the script.

But I think when windows complains about "bad command or file name" it will give you the name of the incriminating command, which is incredibly helpful for people to support you.

Could you please give the FULL error message and let us know what version of Windows you are using?

John Coxon · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:00 pm **Posts:** 4

I'm running ME on the desktop but I can copy it all onto the laptop running XP if that will help.

"Bad command or file name" was the entirety of the error message that I got when typing "bcd mpatch". Nothing else at all.

>NIL: · **Posted:** Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:32 pm

Then I would try on XP. Probably the .cmd extension not working in 9x/Me.
You could try to change .cmd to .bat, which will probably let you run some stuff, but I doubt the CD process creation will complete properly then...

John Coxon · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:00 pm **Posts:** 4

I managed to create the boot cd, then I restarted, went into the BIOS, told it to boot from cd, and it did so.

Burned onto the cd again, and now it's asking for me to:

"Insert disk with batch file
Press any key to continue . . ."

The boot cd I created isn't the right one because when I press any key the same message comes up, so what disk do I need to insert if that's not the right one?

>NIL: · **Posted:** Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:17 pm

once you have booted with the CD and dumped/patched your firmware, the CD will not boot again (not my fault. Multisession + bootable CD is apparently not something the BIOS decided to handle)
It shouldn't matter, coz if you patched your file and didn't get any error message up to the point where you burned the firmware onto the CD, your drive should be patched and you don't need to boot from the CD ever again.

What happened between the time you say you booted from the CD and the time you tried to boot again and you got the error? Did your drive managed to get patched properly???

John Coxon · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:00 pm **Posts:** 4

Yeah, it patched alright. My father (in a very sensible move) decided he was just going to turn the laptop off and back on again, and everything's working fine. Have downloaded DVD Region Killer and it seems to be all alright. Thanks for your help!

SummitMan · **Joined:** Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:34 pm **Posts:** 1

Nil,
I ran the bcd mpatch but following errors were reported:

WriteImaFile () failed
BFD: aborted

Press any key
BFD: exiting with return value 1
BCD: Aborted

Press any key
BCD: Exiting with return value 1

Any idea how to solve?

Thanks,
SummitMan

>NIL: · **Posted:** Fri Aug 20, 2004 4:36 pm

not really. It worked for others and the bootCD (bcd/bfd) creation comes from Bart's tool. It has to be an error that you did => retry from the start, carefully, and after reading as much information as you can.

simoncsc · **Joined:** Sat Aug 21, 2004 4:41 am **Posts:** 1

My drive is UJDA750

there is a minor bug in main.bat, the output is not specified, so the output become _ . when

Code:

copy *.7* backup

nothing is copied to the directory "backup", is this issue only happened for 75x drives?

I suggest the followwing:-

Code:

mpatch -aps -d%IDEPos% 0.0.0

change to (specify the output):

Code:

mpatch -aps -d %IDEPos% 0.0.0 rom.7xx

and

Code:

mpatch 0.0.0

change to

Code:

mpatch 0.0.0 rom.7xx

>NIL: · **Posted:** Sat Aug 21, 2004 9:16 pm

mptach is supposed to find the name of the drive (for the 720 and 730 it will actually create a file with ext. 720 and 730) and I have no intention of overriding this to 7xx so that when exchanging firmwares, we don't really know what drive it came from. The version and the drive name have to come from the dumped firmware name, else, trust me, it will be a mess.

Now, the 750 is NOT supported by mpatch, so that the extension is not set properly comes as no surprise.
But mpatch cannot patch the 750 anyway, so all you can do is dump the firmware, and to do that you don't need the boot CD as I think I gave a linik to the win32 version of mpatch.

fabisoft · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 10:38 am **Posts:** 8

Worked with Dell Inspiron 8500 (Matshita UJDA 740) !
But I had to change "ataProbe UJDA" into "ataProbe MATHSITA" in main.bat

Thx !

kalichild · **Joined:** Thu Oct 30, 2003 11:03 am **Posts:** 3

Nil, et. al.

Instructions were flawless, and resulted in a RPC1 Matshita 745 on an IBM T40.

I REALLY appreciate the time and effort you took in the creation of the updated mpatch.

VERY happy monkey, me!

-David

Terraine · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:50 pm

NIL,

I burned the boot CD and rebooted my laptop (NEC VERSA S260 with the Matshita UJDA730 drive). The default option worked okay and I thought that was that. Unfortunately, the firmware only amended the region changes from 2 to 3, and because the setting was incorrect (Region 1) the counter went back to 2 when I changed it to Region 2.

I tried to run the boot disc again, but nothing happened. I created a new disc and all went well until the 'Now reading firmware...' message. At the end of the read, error P05 popped up and the message 'Could not patch firmware!' appeared.

Does the patch only work the once?

Regards,

Lorraine

>NIL: · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:57 pm

Once a drive is patched, a drive is patched.
If you didn't get any error first time round, your drive was flashed properly and it is now RPC-1.

May I suggest you read this?

Terraine · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:11 pm

NIL,

Many thanks for the info.

Regards,

Lorraine

grifterinexile · **Joined:** Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:11 pm **Posts:** 1

Big thanks to Nil.

After countless hours probing and remaking the boot disc, some tweaking of main.bat did the trick, changing lines ataProbe UJDA to ataProbe UJDA720 and mpatch -aps -d%IDEPos% 0.0.0 to mpatch -aps -d%IDEPos% 0.1.0.

Do this before running "bcd mpatch"!

At last my drive is RPC-1. I've successfullly flashed the UJDA720 drive on a Fujitsu Lifebook C-6630.

palipali · **Joined:** Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:18 am **Posts:** 1

I have a VAIO PCG Z1-RSP with a UJDA 745 Combo Drive. My problem is that I can't read any DVDs and any original CDs as Norton Internet Security or WinDVD). The only DVD which I can read is a RW-DVD. On this one I can see the image but I can't hear the sound. I would like to mention that a week before formating everything was going just fine, but suddenly it didn't what to read anymore any DVD. After I formated, I installed Firmware 1.04 over 1.01, but I still can't read DVDs and original CDs. I would lilke also to mention that my drive has region protection, 4 changes left and current region is region 2.

Could you help me please in this matter?
Should I try to install UJDA 7xx autopatcher (bootCD) - mpatch v2.0 ? Which are the risks?
Can I restore the old settings if I have problems at the installation?
Is UJDA 7xx autopatcher designed for UJDA 745 aswell?

Thanks

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