The Firmware Page

edit: i forgot to say that im having problem to burn an xbox 360 game on a ridata dual layer disk with ImgBurn so i think firmware upgrade could be the solution, my SO:win 7 ultimate 86x.

If you would make a backup of your firmware first and post it here.. original firmwares are rare..

the program that can do it is
http://sourceforge.net/projects/flasher/files/

theres a console version and a gui version that is based on gtk

if you going to run the gtk version install the runtime from here.
http://gtk-win.sourceforge.net/home/index.php/en/Home

sorry i'm really noob on this, gui is a version with a windows interface?? if i could backup the original firmware ill post it here, ill try later, thnx!

GUI = Graphical User Interface .. meaning it has a window that you can click on with a mouse basically
CUI = Console User Interface .. which is purely text

the GTK thing is the Backend of my program for displaying the window for you to work with.


the download for the gtk version is here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/flasher ... p/download

but for it to run you have to install the GTK runtime which download is here..
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk-wi ... e?download

the only reason for me using the gtk is because this program also works in linux and i dont want to maintain code for windows and linux seperately.

there will be two tabs one that allows you to flash the drive with a new firmware and one that lets you dump the main firmware.
there will be a text entry place to let you put your drive letter there.

now the console version.
the console version allows you to dump the core firmware and the main firmware.. the core firmware is very important for recovery so it is worth it.
I plan on adding all this to the GUI version later.

if you download the console version you should download it to your Desktop and extract the flasher.exe directly to your desktop.

then you need to get into a console window by the start menu and click run or you can press the windows key and r at the same time..
with the new window type in cmd and you will be in the console.

while in the console window type cd Desktop
then to actually backup your firmwares type

[drive] = the drive letter of your cdrom drive
flasher.exe -d [drive] -m main_firmware.bin
flasher.exe -d [drive] -c core_firmware.bin

eg. drive e:
flasher.exe -d e -m main_firmware.bin
flasher.exe -d e -c core_firmware.bin

if you need anymore info just ask

when i try to use the console version i get an error. It says "The program cannot start because missing libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll in the computer. Try to reinstall the program to solve this problem". sorry for my bad translation but its something like this, i put a jpeg with a screen.

you downloaded the gtk version this is the console
https://sourceforge.net/projects/flashe ... p/download

well i think i've created a firmware backup, so now is secure to flash the dievice isnt it? but the new firmware downloaderd from here includes a .exe to flash it so there is any problem if i flash it with that .exe insted of using the soft you told me?
ive attached the firmware im not sure i think thats the firmware

you dont have to use mine at all..

my program conforms on the official flashing process. so either is good.

but if you want to use my program it can rip the firmware from the other exe by doing the fallowing..

flasher.exe -r original_firmware.exe

i'll use your program to create/restore backup and the .exe downloaded from here to flash so i dont have to rip the bin from the exe downloaded, PS:wher´s the correct place to upload the original firm?

alot of people use
http://www.rapidshare.com/
http://www.filefront.com/
http://www.megaupload.com/

i personally like filefront

yes i know that servers, but i was asking from in which part of the forum LOL

http://www.filefront.com/14951499/JP01.rar

well here they are, the original GSA-T40N JP01 firmware from a gateway T-1631 notebook. Now its late tomorrow ill flash the device and comment what happened, bye!

thanks. would you mind also dumping the core.. that file only had main .

You are using cheapo media, that is your only problem.

only way to dump core right now is to use the console based one... I am currently coding it into the gui version but it will take a bit since i was in the middle of fixing other code also.

Im really disapointted i loss 3 DL DVD's trying to burn xbox games i think ill keep buying them :S more money less problems

LOL!

I suggest you just do so - buying games you want to play.

I also want to update my firmware on the GSA-T40N.
If there are any problems with the "new" firmware, how can i flash back ?

I also made a backup with the console version (main and core firmware).
Here is the Link.

Regards

Dr.W

Edit. I'm using Win 7 x86

you can either use my tool or use the dos flasher to do that.

flasher -d [drive] -f firmware.bin

I was redirected here for the flasher, but seeing it seems to be for windows, is it the console version that works on Mac OS X?

the mac version is not on the site yet.. its currently in development, I can't guarantee that it will run on your version but we can try it out.. if you want to I will upload it to a file share place and you can test it. or if your comfortable with compiling software on the Mac OS X i can send the source code..

the newer version works differently then the original since the Mac OS X does not seem to have a path I can point it to like in windows and linux..

the new version accesses the cdrom drive via the order they os recognizes them.

if you only have one drive the [drive number] will always be 1

backs up main firmware
./flasher -d [drive number] -m main_firmware.bin

backs up core firmware
./flasher -d [drive number] -c core_firmware.bin

flashes a firmware onto the drive
./flasher -d [drive number] -f official.bin

rips the firmware out of the windows exe
./flasher -r official.exe

if only one drive
./flasher -d 1 -f official.bin

let me know if you want to try out the pre-compiled or to compile from source.

here is the console/terminal version from the mac osx .. i compiled it against 10.4u sdk so it should work on any system besides power pc.. i also packed it into a universal build but i decided to omit the ppc version since its not coded into it yet..

you will have to extract it from the zip file and then run it from a terminal/console in the manner that i described above.
http://www.filefront.com/15139089/flasher.zip

Hi,

First of all thanks for sharing your work.

I've bought a new Macbook Pro 13" with Snow Leopard (10.6) that comes with a HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS23N revision SB00 drive.
Searching around I found this firmware.
Following this discussion it is the original firmware.
I've downloaded MCSE that I ran under Wine to patch the firmware to RPC2-autoreset.
Then, looking for a flasher to this firmware I got this thread.
I've downloaded your Mac version of flasher and did the following commands:

And it's stopped at this point since more than 15 min without finishing. It does not do any disk or cpu activity. It is safe to abort the program or is there another thing to do?

Hmmm, the flasher didn't stop after 1h so I reboot the computer.
Now the Apple System Profile doesn't recognize the driver in the same way. Before was:


Now it's:


I think the firmware on the site isn't a real GS23N but a fake one based on GS21N and that's my problem.

And if I try to reflash the driver I get this error:


Is there another solution than buying another drive or try to tell Apple the drive is broken under warranty?

the mac osx fails on self diag.. it does not actually mean it failed.. the drive flashing its self has already finished by then..

you have to reboot your to see the changes.

I need to omit the self diag code on the mac osx because after flashing the drive is not able to be flashed again with out a reboot nor is it really accessible for some reason.

reboot your system and see what happens then.. also if you noticed in the info your drive says something about core.. that means its in recovery mode.