QSI SBW-242

dhc014 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 02, 2001 1:34 am **Posts:** 12030

No, you missed a big part of the concept of being region free... software counters: http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=239

Magnum99 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 09, 2004 2:45 am **Posts:** 1

My new Inspirion 9100 QSI SBW242U firmware UD25 has been writen over. Nero Infotool used to show read speed 24x write speed 24x. Not anymore. I tried the U301 Rpc1 patch and now it says;

read speed cd 8x
write speed cd 24x
read speed Dvd 4x

Any suggestions please

John

dhc014 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 02, 2001 1:34 am **Posts:** 12030

First of all, you should not have used any firmware that did not come from Dell. I sure hope you made a backup of your original firmware before flashing.

Reported speeds depend on the type of media in the drive. Put a pressed CD in the drive and it should show 24x again. If not, then it doesn't really matter anyways.

ExceptioN13 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:57 pm **Posts:** 2

Hello all,

I have an Aspire 1353LC with SBW242 Combo Drive and Firmware UX08.

RPC is not my problem but i have some writing problems with CD-RW's.
So i asked Acer support for a new Firmware but they wrote they can't provide updates because these are OEM-Drives and the manufacturer (QSI) offers no Firmware-Updates? :evil:

Why can Dell and Sony provide Updates?

Unbelievable!

So i tried UQ81 from Zombie (thanks...) with the /O 04000 1FFF Parameter for MTKFlash in order to save my Calibration settings... :wink:

What should i say... now i have an SBW242C with Firmware UQ81 and my UX08 calibration Settings...
I don't now if this was a good Idea (comments please!) but it works...now i have a better reading performance with dvd+r and the CD-RW writing problem seems to be solved.

I saved my original UX08 before the update.

If anyone needs it look here:

http://people.freenet.de/EXCeptioN13/UX08.bin

dhc014 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 02, 2001 1:34 am **Posts:** 12030

Thanks for the good results, could you also dump the firmware from your drive now that it has been flashed and either post it online or mail it to me? It was very wise to backup before flashing, I'm glad you did that!

ExceptioN13 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:57 pm **Posts:** 2

Hello!

No prob i thought that you will ask this... 8-)

http://people.freenet.de/EXCeptioN13/UQ81UX08.bin

If you compare the files in an hex-Editor you can see that it is uq81 except
the section $4000 to $5FFF which is identical to ux08...

The /O 04000 1FFF means exclude starting adress 4000 plus offset 1fff
(4000 to 5fff) from writing?

How did you find out that this is the calibration data?

By the way: I better purchased the Notebook with Toshiba DVD-R... QSI is not so good... very bad support...

Greetings... Exception13

dhc014 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 02, 2001 1:34 am **Posts:** 12030

ExceptioN13 wrote:

How did you find out that this is the calibration data?

By comparing multiple copies of firmwares that should have been identical I came up with a guess at the calibration data, but etna corrected me since the area was larger than I thought. I have 3 or 4 backups of UX08 now, I think.

Thanks for your backups!

gelowin · **Joined:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:18 pm **Posts:** 7

Hello all,

Have someone any firmware for QSI CDRW/DVD SBW242B drive?
If yes, please send it to me.
gelowin33@yahoo.es

I had upgraded the firmware without backup it. And now don't recognize any CD or DVD.
I talked with Etna, but don't have the correct firmware to help me. The original was UK56.
Any ideas?

by the way.
My operating system is windows xp running in a Elitegroup's Notebook without floppy.
Have two partitions. One NTFS and one FAT32.
I think the drive is secondary master.

thank you very much.

air_mejia · **Joined:** Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:58 pm **Posts:** 2

Hi, I have a Sony Vaio PCG-K23F, and a combo CDRW/DVD ROM QSI 242C... I have problems reading discs in "Mode 2 XA", other discs in "Mode 2" have no problem... I've been reading the messages and I think that a firmware update could be the anwser... the version of my firmware is US83...

recommendations ????

dhc014 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 02, 2001 1:34 am **Posts:** 12030

No, a firmware update won't help because by now no company will produce a drive that has problems with something as simple as reading a certain filesystem. The problem is more likely caused by the media or the CD burner or whatever.

Please send me a backup of your firmware made with mtkflash in DOS.

air_mejia · **Joined:** Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:58 pm **Posts:** 2

dhc014

ok, I don't have a FAT partition, but I'll create one for mtkflash... as soon as posible I'll send you a copy of my firmware...

thanks...

Miezoo · **Posted:** Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:48 am

Does anyone have a QSI 242 UX05 firmware backup?
If you do, please email it to me, or post me a link where i can dload from.

Thanx alot!

thomas.watkins · **Posted:** Thu Aug 12, 2004 1:30 pm

Does anyone have a backup of UK01 for a QSI SBW-242? If you do, please PM me.

Thanx

dhc014 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 02, 2001 1:34 am **Posts:** 12030

I may make a small page for the SBW-242 firmwares that I do have, but it is important that everyone does not forget about the fact that every single drive has unique calibration data in with the firmware. Flashing using mtkflash as the flash tool requires a special command to prevent the calibration data from being overwritten.

deeveedee · **Joined:** Sat Aug 21, 2004 9:34 pm **Posts:** 9

I am impressed with the knowledge that is accumulating in this forum about the QSI SBW-242, so I'm hoping that someone can give me some advice about this drive. My drive works perfectly for reading and creating CD-Rs and CD-RWs, but the drive has problems reading DVD-Rs. Could a firmware update resolve this problem?

My system specs are as follows:

Firmware: UD30
Lock Status: Unlocked
OS: Windows XP Home SP1

dhc014 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 02, 2001 1:34 am **Posts:** 12030

Below are the firmwares, sorted by device name and date, that I've received or dumped myself for the SBW-242. You should first make a backup of your original, unmodified firmware before flashing anything, then use the special command described by etna here to flash with mtkflash in DOS. Some of these backups lack calibration data so if you flash them to your drive improperly, you will definately end up with a dead drive. I do not know whether all firmares are interchangable or not...

These should all be original firmwares, you can use etna's autopatcher to make them region free.

QSI CDRW/DVD SBW-242
UJ03-03 2003/01/28 - Fujitsu-Siemens
UD22-01 2003/03/07 - Dell
UX08-09 2003/03/26 - Acer
UX10-07 2003/04/04
UF02-01 2003/04/09
UFX2-01 2003/04/09
UD30-01 2003/11/18 - Dell

QSI CDRW/DVD SBW242U
US05-02 2004/03/01 - Sony
US06-03 2004/04/16 - Sony

NU CDRW/DVD SBW242U
U301-02 2003/05/23

QSI CDRW/DVD SBW242C
UQ81-03 2003/12/09 - Acer

Firmwares that I've read about, but do not have (Please send!):
UD25 Inspirion 9100 QSI SBW242U firmware
UK56 QSI CDRW/DVD SBW242 firmware
US83 Sony Vaio PCG-K23F CDRW/DVD ROM QSI 242C firmware
UX05
UK01
UX12

I welcome any other firmwares that anyone wants to send.

Miezoo · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:52 am

Sounds great, but the links are dead (HTTP 404 - file not found).
Thanx anyway.

dhc014 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 02, 2001 1:34 am **Posts:** 12030

They work fine for me, does anyone else have a problem?

chef · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:21 pm

UX08 and UX10 are currently 404 for me.

dhc014 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 02, 2001 1:34 am **Posts:** 12030

Darn capitals... Should be fixed. Thanks Chef.

chef · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:28 pm

Yep, they work now.

3YE · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:21 pm

This Model has a QSI SBW 242 drive.

I used Etna's firmware patcher posted above.

Drive is now region free if i use it in combinaion with 'regionkiller'

Thanks guys

Fisker · **Joined:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:35 pm **Posts:** 6

The Dangerous Brothers wrote:

The UD22 firmware, with the QSI identifier can be found here
UD22.ZIP

Contains the original and RPC1 firmware in binary form suitable for MTKFlash 1.80

When using betas, please always make a backup of your current version and send it in if that version is not already available.

Brother Vlad

That link could maybe save my drive, but it dosent work anymore :roll:

Can you please take a look at it?

Thanks!

LasVegas · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:10 am

It worked fine for me.

dhc014 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 02, 2001 1:34 am **Posts:** 12030

Fisker wrote:

Can you please take a look at it?

It works now and you can see my post above for a lot of different firmwares for the SBW-242.

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