The Firmware Page

Hi there,

I own the Pioneer BDC-202BK Blu Ray Player. I bought this as an OEM version (without checking - my own fault!! ) as part of my own system build.

I am trying to update my firmware (I have tried version 1.04 and also version 1.07), but I get either 1 of 2 messages:

1) Model name of kernel is not matched.
2) Similar to: Model not found

I am running this on Vista 64 bit.

Is there any way I can update my firmware for this model?

Any help would be great.

Kind regards

can you post discinfo output from the drive

I can use Nero Infotool to do this......as a notepad doc. Would that be ok?

I can't do it until this evening though. After work.

that would be fine

Ok thanks, I will post that this evening.

how can i attach the file? it wont allow txt, rtf, doc etc?

copy and paste the info, or a screenshot

i'll do it as 2 or 3 posts.....its too large to go in 1

Nero InfoTool 5.2.3.0

Drive Information
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Drive : PIONEER BD-ROM BDC-202
Type : Blu-ray COMBO DL
Firmware Version : 1.01
Buffer Size : 1600 KB
Date : 07-06-01
Serial Number : GGDL011899WL
Vendor Specific : 07/06/01 PIONEER
Drive Letter : D:\
Location : 0:1
Mechanism : Tray
Read Speed : 51 X
Write Speed : n/a

Read CD Text : Yes
Return C2 Pointers : Yes
Read CD-R : Yes
Read CD-RW : Yes
Read DVD-ROM : Yes
Read DVD-RAM : Yes
Read DVD-R : Yes
Read DVD-RW : Yes
Read DVD-R DL : Yes
Read DVD+R : Yes
Read DVD+RW : Yes
Read DVD+R DL : Yes
Read BD-ROM : Yes
Read BD-R : Yes
Read BD-RE : Yes
Read HD DVD-RAM : No
Read HD DVD-R : No
Read HD DVD-RW : No
Read HD DVD-R DL : No
Read HD DVD-RW DL : No
Read HD-BURN : No
Read Digital Audio : Yes
Read CD+G : No
Read VideoCD : Yes

Write CD-R : Yes
Write CD-RW : Yes
Write DVD-R : Yes
Write DVD-RW : Yes
Write DVD-R DL : Yes
Write DVD+R : Yes
Write DVD+RW : Yes
Write DVD+R DL : Yes
Write DVD-RAM : Yes
Write BD-R : No
Write BD-RE : No
Write HD DVD-R : No
Write HD DVD-RW : No
Write HD DVD-R DL : No
Write HD DVD-RW DL : No
Write HD-BURN-R : No
Write HD-BURN-RW : No
Buffer Underrun Protection : Yes
Mount Rainier : No
SolidBurn : No
Labelflash : No
LightScribe : No
Modes : Packet, TAO, DAO, SAO, RAW SAO, RAW DAO, RAW SAO 16, RAW SAO 96, RAW DAO 16, RAW DAO 96

Region Protection Control : RPC II
Region : 2
Changes User : 4
Changes Vendor : 4

have you tried in safemode?

i've fixed it.

I tried PowerDVD and it works fine. It must be a Nero8 problem.

Can you see anything there that Nero could cause an issue?

confused, what has this to do with updating the firmware?

Yeah sorry about that, because I couldnt play BLu Ray I thought it was a firmware issue, as Pioneer came back to me and asked me to update my firmware.

I am still having trouble updating the firmware of the Pioneer drive though, so if you could help with that it would be really cool?

Pioneer seem to think that its not the fact that its an OEM drive, but because my motherboard uses the South Bridge ICH10R Chipset. I'm also using a RAID10. My Blu Ray device is plugged into the same SATA chipset (southbridge) as the RAID configuration.

It seems strange as the errors I get refer to the device not being found. One along the lines of "Target not found" (sorry I cant remember the official error), and the other about kernell's I don't understand.

There we have the problem!
RAID is a no-go for SATA with optical drives.
Is there another SATA controller onboard or in the computer?

How is the drive/SATA set up in the BIOS??

hey,

Yeah I have the South Bridge ICH10R Chipset which I have all my 4 RAID HDD's plugged into, and also my Pioneer - the chip is set as RAID.

But......I have:

GIGABYTE SATA2 chip:
1) 1 x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices
2) 2 x SiI5723 chips (Smart Backup): -4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (GS0-Source, GS1, GS2-Source, GS3) supporting up to 4 SATA 3Gb/s devices - Support for Smart Backup (RAID 1)

At the moment the Gigabyte SATA2 chip is turned off in the BIOS.
The setting is: Onboard SATA/IDE Device: Disabled
I can turn it on to SATA mode, plug my Blu Ray into that and see if the firware update works?

hey I fixed it without having to do anything. Pioneer came back to me with this:

The PIO_ADV signature is applied for the "retail" version, BDC-S02 / S02BK, but around 3 months ago I discovered that our factory had also applied this signature to "some" of the regular BDC-202 / 202BK "bulk/OEM" models during mass production.

So all I needed to do was update using the BDC-S02BK firmware package.

oh, interesting, good customer service for once though

this is true, the guy was on drugs or something, the email was the happiest email I've ever received!!

thanks for letting us know, may help other members with the issue

Hi

Found this thread after trying to update my BDC-202BK drive (firmware 1.04).
Neither the BDC-202 1.07 or 1.08 worked for me ; always got an error "Available target is not found".

I used the BDC-S02 flasher instead and it worked. Interestingly, even the S02 flasher showed the drive as being a BDC-202 !