The Firmware Page

G'day all,
Am new here, though I have flashed firmware in the past, so not a *total* newbie.

Am having a problem trying to download files from here though. I've tried links from within these forums, and also direct links to files housed here from the Dangerous Brothers' webpage, but either way, I keep getting the error:

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

FWIW, I'm browsing with Firefox 1.5.0.7 on WinXP+SP2. I don't seem to have any trouble otherwise with the page -- links to other threads work fine, just not the links to downloads.

Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong here ? Is this a common(ish) occurrence, and maybe solved by a quick configuration change on my PC ? (One can only hope !)

Thanks for your help.

d

Hi and welcome to the forum,

you should read this



Take care
Backfire
[aka TOSHIBAer]

for this please post discinfo output, Backfire has posted the answer to your other problem

Thanks folks,
Your replies are appreciated.

Backfire, your suggestions certainly helped. I ran the link, and that returned the expected information on HTTP_Referrer. But if I simply killed my firewall temporarily, the links worked. Not the ideal, to be without a firewall, but frankly, while my firewall software is very efficient and powerful, I find it fairly opaque in trying to configure (and the user guide isn't a great deal of help). At least I got at the files !!

But now, PumaUK's post has given me some pause. (Or should that be paws ?? ) In any case, thanks, PumaUK, for the input.

I found DiskInfo and ran it with no worries, but I can't figure out how to post the screen shots it created.

One thing: my drive seems to have locked its region, which I'm puzzled by. It's never asked me to choose or set a region -- does it just set the region automatically when I start playing a disc of a different region, and that's one of my chances gone ? It still has 4 manufacturer's changes available, but no user changes. I was hoping the firmware update might resolve that -- it's currently using firmware DL10, so I have a few levels to update it to.

But how do I include the screenshots in a post here ?

regards,
Bran

just copy and paste the text, rpc1 firmware is available from the bros DL13

http://tdb.rpc1.org/#GSA4167B

Aaah, I just found the option of a text summary in DiscInfo.

Here's what it says about my two drives:


DISCINFO VERSION : 1.6.1.6
VENDOR : LG
MODEL : DVD-ROM DRD8160B
REVISION : 1.03
VENDOR SPECIFIC : H.L.D.S. 2002/04/06
LOADING MECHANISM : Tray
NUMBER VOL. LEVELS : 255
BUFFER SIZE : 512KB
INTERFACE : ATAPI
RPC2 SCHEME : YES
STATUS : Not Set
USER CHANGES : 5
VENDOR CHANGES : 4
CURRENT REGION : Not set
ANALOG AUDIO PLAY : YES
COMPOSITE OUTPUT : NO
DIGITAL PORT-PORT1 : NO
DIGITAL PORT-PORT2 : NO
READ UPC CODE : YES
MULTISESSION READ : YES
MODE 2 FORM 1 : YES
MODE 2 FORM 2 : YES
READ ISRC CODE : YES
READ BAD CODE : NO
BUFFER UNDER-RUN : NO
MT. RAINIER : NO
CAN READ CDR : YES
CAN READ CDRW : YES
CAN READ CDRM2 : YES
CAN WRITE CDR : NO
CAN WRITE CDRW : NO
CAN TEST WRITE : NO
CAN READ DVD-ROM : YES
CAN READ DVD-R : YES
CAN READ DVD-RW : YES
CAN READ DVD-RAM : NO
CAN READ DVD+R : NO
CAN READ DVD+RW : NO
CAN WRITE DVD-R : NO
CAN WRITE DVD-RW : NO
CAN WRITE DVD-RAM : NO
CAN WRITE DVD+R : NO
CAN WRITE DVD+RW : NO
MAX CDR READ SPEED : 48


DISCINFO VERSION : 1.6.1.6
VENDOR : HL-DT-ST
MODEL : DVDRAM GSA-4167B
REVISION : DL10
VENDOR SPECIFIC : 
LOADING MECHANISM : Tray
SERIAL NUMBER : ---
NUMBER VOL. LEVELS : 256
BUFFER SIZE : 2048KB
INTERFACE : ATAPI
RPC2 SCHEME : YES
STATUS : Permanent
USER CHANGES : 0
VENDOR CHANGES : 4
CURRENT REGION : 4
ANALOG AUDIO PLAY : YES
COMPOSITE OUTPUT : NO
DIGITAL PORT-PORT1 : NO
DIGITAL PORT-PORT2 : NO
READ UPC CODE : YES
MULTISESSION READ : YES
MODE 2 FORM 1 : YES
MODE 2 FORM 2 : YES
READ ISRC CODE : YES
READ BAD CODE : NO
BUFFER UNDER-RUN : YES
MT. RAINIER : NO
CAN READ CDR : YES
CAN READ CDRW : YES
CAN READ CDRM2 : YES
CAN WRITE CDR : YES
CAN WRITE CDRW : YES
CAN TEST WRITE : YES
CAN READ DVD-ROM : YES
CAN READ DVD-R : YES
CAN READ DVD-RW : YES
CAN READ DVD-RAM : YES
CAN READ DVD+R : YES
CAN READ DVD+RW : YES
CAN WRITE DVD-R : YES
CAN WRITE DVD-RW : YES
CAN WRITE DVD-RAM : YES
CAN WRITE DVD+R : YES
CAN WRITE DVD+RW : YES
MAX CDR READ SPEED : 63
MAX CDR WRITE SPEED: 48


Any of this point in a useful direction ?

regards,
Bran

follow the link to TDB site and use DL13

Thanks mate.

Any suggestion, by chance, for the 8160B ? It's been behaving a bit strangely of late, and I'm puzzled that DiscInfo reports it as incapable of burning a CDR disc -- it can, although sometimes it flakes out halfway through a burning job.

Bran

Nope, the 8160 is a DVD-ROM, cannot burn anything...

What firewall are you using?

as chef says this is a DVDROM drive and thus does not burn to CDR

Oops, that's right !!
I forgot -- I ditched my CD burner recently in favour of the DVD burner.
(Pardon my confusion.)

My firewall, like my virus killer, is from a Norwegian company called Norman (http://www.norman.com). The virus killer is by far the best I've found, with a very tiny resource footprint, but the firewall is a little ... umm, opaque. They're working on a new-generation version which will be more user-friendly in its configuration. I'm hoping that'll make life easier.

OK, so I've successfully updated the firmware to DL13 -- but the region is still locked. I was hoping that re-burning the firmware might reset the counts.

RPCMAN tells me I have 0 user resets, but 4 vendor resets available to me.
Can I access these vendor resets ?
How do I do that ?

Thanks !
Bran

you must have flashed the autoreset firmware, use the RPC1 one

Hi PumaUK,
I tried both. I figure the Autoreset doesn't work once the User options for Region Code changes are all used up. That's why I was hoping to access the Vendor resetting option.

But if I use the RPC-1 firmware, my software (PowerDVD) kicks in and stops me from using any discs other than R4. Grrrr !! What to do ?

Bran


(Did I mention that I hate region coding ?!!! )

Drop us an email about the Auto-Reset, situation.

With the RPC1 you'd need to use something like AnyDVD
http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=239

Brother Vlad