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Another one on todays menu... Thanks to Rainer for testing.

Toshiba SD-R2312 1905 RPC-2 (original)



Toshiba SD-R2312 X905 RPC-1 (patched)

Hi,

I have this Toshiba SD-R2312 1905 device on my Compaq, and of course, I would enjoy to turn it into a RPC-1 one...
But as this firmware update doesn't run with mktflash, as I'm used to with my house PC, and since I'm really novice with "portable computer" like my Compaq, I'd like to know whenever someone already used it and could give me some piece of advice !...
For instance, I have no idea about the way my device is connected : it's said to be on Secondary IDE in control panel, but I don't know whether it's as master or slave... Maybe aren't they even no master nor slave on portable computers ? O mine ! I feel like beginner again !

Thanks for helping !

All that you need to do is run update.bat

The flashing program will detect the location of the drive to be flashed. For future reference, Nero InfoTool can tell you how your IDE devices are hooked up, but that is not importand in this case.

Tried loading this patch with my SD-R2312 1905, but the patcher detects the drive, then pops up with a 'bad hex format' error. Anybody know what's going on there? Is the packaged version of the hacked flash just scrooged?

Boot with no drivers and run from FAT32 partition.

I have flashed my drive and discinfo shows the same as the second shot of the patched drive, but if I try to play an other region discs (local region is 4) I get a message saying the format is incorrect. I checked the drives properties and it still says I have 1 change left before the drive is locked. The patch appears tohave taken but is not working. Any ideas? The drive works fine reading and writing, just won't play any DVD's from regions other than what the drive is currently set to. I don't want to stuff it up by locking it.

I also, like Waughy, flashed my drive and got the same results with Discinfo. Everything looked good, so I inserted a Region2 disc in the Region1 drive. Unfortunately, I went ahead and changed the region for the last time and now I think I may have locked myself out of any further changes. Will re-flashing the X905 firmware fix what problem I've just created, or have I really permanently locked the drive? I'd appreciate any suggestions as to what I might do next. Thanks.

Dave

This post is just for anyone else who might ever find themselves in the same position as above. (Dave L: post 1) A word of advice: don't panic. Once CDVD Info says you're good to go, everything on the hardware level is just fine.

From what research I've done, it seems that region info is kept in up to three places:

1) In the DVD hardware itself.
2) In the windows registry.
3) In the DVD playback software.

Once flashing my DVD drive, the hardware was fixed, but Windows XP itself was convinced that I was only allowed one more change of region. Once changing this region setting, I was seemingly locked from the drive.

In reality, all I needed to do was reset the data in the windows registry entry that kept this software-level region information. I know it might sound confusing, but it wasn't difficult to fix the problem once I found the appropriate resources. Here are two links that I found extremely usefull. The first is a general tutorial for just about any DVD region free difficulties. The second is a link listing the most popular software DVD players and the corresponding software one must use to easily change their internal region without having to make registry changes. Most likely, from the second link, you'll find that you need to download and use DVD genie.

1) http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/articles/region.html
2) http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/artic ... tware.html

Please note that DVD Genie DID NOT work properly on my version of WinDVD, (ver 4.0D) but worked beautifully for PowerDVD XP. For WinDVD, I used DVD Genie under the "Windows" tab to reset the windows internal region setting to Region 0. Unfortunately, if using some versions of WinDVD or some versions of Windows with Windows Media Player for DVD playback, you'll have to reset this registry key EACH TIME you try to view a film from a different region. I'm sure this is software specific to individuals, so you'll have to do some research for your individual setup.

In conclusion, if you've done what I did and nearly locked yourself from your drive, don't despair. When CDVD Info says you're ok, on the hardware level at least, you really are.

Dave

Greetings! I am new here and to the combo drive particulars and I have a concern which you guys might have already been discussed from the history of this threads but im having a hard time navigating thru all of these and understanding the track of converstation since im a novice.

The sd-r2312 which i bought for my armada e500 was detected by Windows ME but Nero burning rom cannot detect it from the choose recorder menu and solely the Image recorder was the only present medium.

I have successfully flashed the firmware to X905 RPC1 using the latest ASPI drivers. Is there anything i missed configuring as i understand Nero can detect it automatically. Thanks guys.

I have the sd-r2312 1905 firmware and lately dvds will not play, audio cds only play the first track or so, and data cds seem to work fine.

this is in windows and linux.

i thought about upgrading the firmware(if that might help?), do you know which version I should use and where I can get it from?

Hi,

My e-machine is locked in Region 3, and although I downloaded the firmware and extracted it onto a cd-rom (as my laptop) doesn't have a floppy drive-I do not know how to make a boot-up cd-rom as I don't know where to get the files in Windows. (I'm using Nero 6)

I tried running it from the "Run" command in Wondows XP and it starts up then the window closess itself. NO error message, but just closess.

Any ideas how to fix this problem?

www.bootdisk.com - for your boot disk needs. Use the floppy disk emulation in the Boot CD dialog for Nero.

Hi everyone. I don't know if what i'm going to write is a bit of a stupid question but i'm quite new in this Region Free world and I would like to ask something.
I've got a HP Compaq nx9010 and after having problems with the original DVD/CD-RW drive that came with the computer, the guys from customer support decided to change it for a Toshiba SD-R2312 v1905 RPC-II. After reading all your comments I decided to make it RPC-I with the X905 but then I realised that it still asks me for a region everytime I play different DVDs from different regions so I still have to use software. When the drive was RPC-II I could play whichever DVD i wanted using AnyDVD from Slysoft. Can somebody tell me the advantages of RPC-I? There has not been any change because I still need to use software to emule the region of the DVD. Is there any way to make the dvd player Region 0 to play every DVD without having to change the region every time?
Thanks for your help guys...

Hi,

Looking desperately for this firmware but link is no longer available (http://freeweb.siol.net/predil46/R2312_X905.zip).

Does anybody know where I can find it?

Toshiba sd-r2312 current firmware version 1905 and looking for x905.

Thanks!

FDM