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Hi there,

if you can't boot from CDs after flashing your
Matsushita-DVD 8176 it is probably because it became
a secondary slave on the ide-bus and the
bios cant see it anymore.

try the following:

dwl2 3 mz34.bin /p-sm

(or whatever firmware you are flashing)

-sm means secondary master, so the bios should recognize it again.

mac users beware: I thing Apple connected hdd and dvd to the same cable - that means afaik the DVD must stay slave

Hi Mutax,

thanks for this great tip!
Can you tell me what the /p parameter stands for?
Could it be possible to use some similar parameters with the RPC-1 MX34.bin file to prevent it from setting the drive as secondary slave?