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The autopatcher can't fix problems cause by the fact that the drives are just bad drives. All it does is make the drive region free, it won't fix your drive so that it can read media that it currently cannot.

Before I burned the bootdisk, I checked if my drive was detected by excecuting ataprobe from the commandline. The instruction got excecuted fine, and ide information shown, but my MATSHITA UJDA740 fw 1.20 was not detected. Any idea's?
Acer laptop Aspire 1604LC with Matshita UJDA740 DVD/CDRW 1.20
Thanks

Weel, I just found out that ataprobe doesn't work under Win32, so I just went ahead with burning the bootcd.
Everything went smooth, and the drive was found and the firmware was read. But at 100% I got error P01. I checked, and my drive is still in region2. Then I tried to just dump the firmware. Then I noticed that somehow the file *.7 was not found, and nothing was burned on the cd (although something was burned, because now the cd is not booting anymore) I went through all the earlier posting to figure it out, but I have to admit, I'm lost. Could any one lend me a hand please?

I have udja710 and the boot CD that I made non boot from the unit.
I proved the CD in another PC and works to perfeccion, but with
udja710 it does not work. The bios this formed good.

any ideas?

Sorry for my english...


En espa

Hi NIL,
I tried your bootable CD on my Sony PCG-FX802 with a UJDA-730.

it all went pretty well... it burned the CD, I rebooted by CD, the drive wrote the dumped files to the CD again... I took the CD out of the drive and continued... after that there was an error message I can't remember. It gave me the options to retry, abort or failure (or something similar). Retry didn't work so I aborted...
After rebooting WinXP everything went fine. DriveInfo told me that my drive is now RPC-1

BUT IT DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE - THE DRIVE CAN'T READ ANYTHING. IT DOESN'T EVEN OPEN! IT'S SEEMS DEAD

is it possible to fix it, or how can I flash the old firmware on the drive again...

thanx

NIL, any updates on using mpatch with 755 drives?

I used the MPATCH v 1.00 Matshita UJDA7xx autopatcher to patch my drive around a year ago. My drive is a Matshita UJDA730 DVD/CDRW. I didn't quite know what I was doing, and although the drive became region free, I think the patch has resulted in a device conflict on my machine which makes it a bit unstable. So...I was wondering if I can run this more recent release to fix things up, or if I need to restore the original settings.

I hope I'm posting this in the right place since I'm new to this forum. Anyway, if Nil or anyone knows the answer and could help me out with this I'd be appreciative.

Thanks,
Michael

Hello! Is there any way to patch my UJDA 740 in linux? I try to this in DOS (Like PTS-DOS, PC-DOS and even MS-DOS) by hands w/o any bootable CDs and nothing is happen... only Error P01... Please help... or give me any ideas how can get access to firmware and other stuff.
Thanks!!!
p.s. sorry fo english.

Even if you have Linux you can use the bootCD.
You don't need to have windows, or even a FAT or NTFS partition.

If you get error P01, I'd say your drive is probably already RPC-1...

I see... Is there any chances to make my drive region free? I want only to know how it is works...

What if you started by checking whether your drive is region free, coz I have to reiterate that error P01 usually means that the drive is already region free.

Since you are using Linux, I suggest you download the dvdzone source from nil.rpc1.org, compile and run it, and see if your drive is RPC-1 or not.

Thanks!

Hello again! I have RPC-2 firmware by dvdzone report... Current region is 5, Region changes - 4, Vendor - 4 . I 'll try today see how works dvdzone, so I want to ask - NIL, any questions I have about prog, can I ask them?
Thanks!

It looks like your drive is not region free then.
If mpatch doesn't support it, tough luck. You have to know that mpatch only supports that many drives, and that newer ones like the 750+ are not supported. Looks like you might have a version of the 740 that is not supported either...

Yes... it seems like that... any manuals recommended?

Hello NIL,

I have an IBM thinkpad T42 with Matshita UJDA755 drive. Do you have any patch for this drive available yet? I'd be more than glad to get a original firmware off this drive for your review. Please tell me how I can go about doing that for you.

NIL,
I found it. After creating the bootdisk like you mentioned in the first post, I was able to reboot and attempted to dump the original firmware (from my UJDA755 combo drive). It mentioned that it is backing up, writing the firmware....

But where????? I could find the file anywhere. I rebooted and look around in windows, in the boot CD, nothing...

Please help.

I am one of the people who've checked in on the progress of your UJDA efforts from time to time, and now have finally taken the plunge and built an mpatch 2.0 boot disk and patched the UJDA710 drive on my Sony Vaio PCG-FX190 laptop.

I just used the default option as you instructed and it worked like a dream. I'm very happy

Thank you for all your work in producing this, you are a star.

I followed the instructions to region-free my UDJA745 as outlined on the very first entry in this thread and I am delighted to report that it worked absolutely fine first time without a hitch. A very simple and elegant and easy-to-use method. The downloading and unzipping of obscure files wasa a little daunting but I need not have worried. The only near-glitch was at the very end when my laptop grumbled because it couldn't find the a:\ drive, which it never had, and it didn't need. I clicked abort and the machine reverted immediately to the C:\ prompt.

Bonzer stuff. Thanks very much.

Hi,

First, thanks for taking the time to create this tool!

I've run into a problem and hope you can help me.

This is on a UDJA745 on an IBM T40 notebook.

(not all of the error messages are exact, I've written them
down as best as I can)

I've made the bootable CD as instructed, the firmware
is extracted :

Description: UJDA745 DVD/CDRW
Manufacturer: MATSHITA
Firmware Revision: 1.02
Extra Info: 302170KME14130342551

The firmware appears to be written to the file BMx102.745.

So far, so good.

The CD gets burnt with the new session, then is ejected.

The messages "ABOUT TO FLASH" "!!! PLEASE EJECT ANY CD ...!!!"
appear, and I "Press any key to continue". The CD tray is still ejected (if that makes any difference).

Then the firmware flashing program says:



At this point I chicken out and hit (n) and the patcher quits....

Should I just hit (y) ?

Or is there something I'm missing?

Thanks for any and all help, this region-coding thing is driving me up the wall...

/D

Do you want to turn your drive into a region free one? (y/n)

My T40 combo info :
Description: UJDA745 DVD/CDRW
Manufacturer: MATSHITA
Firmware Revision: 1.02

I have patched my combo a few minuters ago.
My combo supports DVD+R originally.But after i restored my ghost image some days ago,the combo did never support DVD+R.So i decide to update the combo's firmware.And then i found >NIL's patched firmware .It's great.

Now my combo info is:
Region Protection Control : RPC I
Region : All
Changes User
Changes Vendor

the combo original info is:
Region Protection Control : RPC II
Region : None
Changes User : 5
Changes Vendor : 4

It looks that i have patched the combo successfully! But how about DVD+R support?Maybe i have to flash IBM's new 1.03 version firmware,then patch it using mpatch?

Hi

I recently upgraded the DVD-Rom in my KeyLime iBook 466SE to a UJDA730 from wegner-media.

Works great...Excellent upgrade.

But, I cant seem to find anything for MacOSX for Region-Free'ing this drive

I noticed NIL's mention of a possible Linux version of the patcher?
I am currently dual-booting the iBook into Mandrake 9.1 ppc.
Would the linux version work on Mandrake PPC ?
or does the boot CD work on apples too?

Could you please release the linux version Nils ?

Thanks in Advance
Kind Regards
KiwiClint

My Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite with a Matshita UJDA720 DVD/CDRW. It is set in Region 1 and I can

Hi
When making the boot cd it stopped the process and it says:

BFD: Creating image "cds\mpatch\files\mpatch.img"
BFD: Running bfi -f=cds\mpatch\files\mpatch.img -b=os\md701\bootsect.bin -o=io.
sys -t=288 C:\DOCUME~1\HMonge\CONFIG~1\Temp\$bfd$
WriteImaFile() failed
BFD: Aborted...

Presione una tecla para continuar . . .
BFD: Exiting with return value 1
BCD: Aborted...

Presione una tecla para continuar . . .
BCD: Exiting with return value 1

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