The Firmware Page

I'm trying to flash the firmware for this DVD Drive on an old MacBook Pro. It's not the original drive, I've had it replaced twice. This is what it is listed using DVD Info X:

Vendor: HL-DT-ST
Model: DVDRW GSA-S10N6
Firmware: AS39
RPC-2 (region locked)
State is SET
4 vendor resets left
4 region changes left
Region 1

The closest thing I've found on the rpc1 download page is this file, GSA-S10N_BP10.zip.

Does anyone know if this will work? I haven't found any mention of this except here: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=44561&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
And that was over 2 years ago so I'm wondering if some firmware for this has been found, any ideas if this BP10 will work?

Thanks very much in advance!

if you really want a firmware and you have a intel mac you might be able to dump it with my utility called flasher. you can find it in the forums. if you don't have a intel mac then you can pull the drive and put it in a intel based system and dump it.

Hey Devilsclaw,
Thanks for the post. I do have an intel Mac and I was definitely going to use flasher, but was wondering if that was the right firmware from the rcp download page for my drive. The only one I could find was this one GSA-S10N_BP10.zip. Will that work even though I have AS39? I am hesitant just to use it if it doesn't correspond to the exact one my computer is using.
thanks very much!

dump your own firmware from the drive and then patch it with MCSE. There is no pre-done RPC1 Patched firmware.

Thanks Puma and Devilsclaw...

I think I get it now!

So I just use devilsclaw's flasher to dump the firmware, as a bin file right? Dumping means essentially saving that to my hardrive as a bin file...

Then I can use that MCSE to patch THAT file...then go back to flasher and use that patched file to flash the drive? right?

Ingenious...

thanks!!

yes. and please post your original non patched firmware here.

A slight coincidence that two of us were patching the same drive in the same way at the same (almost) time. This worked perfectly for me:

1. Download flasher, use the instructions in the readme file to dump both main and core firmwares.
2. Download MCSE, run it in Wine using WineBottler.
3. Load the main firmware in MCSE, tick the autoreset box, save the new firmware (using the default _speedpatched.bin name)
4. Flash the drive using flasher and that patched firmware file.
5. Shut down, power off, restart.

It was all so very easy, I was wondering whether it worked... but after changing the region (which was reflected in DVDInfoX's output), then shutting down and restarting again, it's back to the original region and the original number of changes remaining. Brilliant!

Only one question: how do I post the original firmware as requested here?

Upload it to a free host such as www.mediafire.com and then post the link here. Thanks!

Just wanted to say the method outlines by Robinhood worked great for me, finally got my mom's old MBP patched.

Model HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N
Rev AP12
Serial K1L83PM5928

Forum Rules = Please do not post patched firmware made from MCSE. Users can do this themselves.