Making Matshita DVD-writers region free running Windows

leothefirmwarepage · **Joined:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:36 pm **Posts:** 2

This is it. I flashed the firmware so now I can watch movies from any region. The problem is that right now, I cannot see or use any CD disc. ok?

DVDs, yes
CDs, NO

Every CD disc I put on drive, it is not read, it does not work.

The strange CDA file is from a disc with so many files, no music at all.

I'm not wrong. The drive is wrong. I fixed some issue and got another. Thanks.

chef · **Posted:** Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:46 am

Then this is a config or driver problem in your system/OS, not the drive.

Krempf · **Joined:** Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:12 am **Posts:** 1

bugmenot wrote:

Sony Vaio Z (VGN-Z350N) running Windows 7 Ultimate x32
Matshita UJ862AS

error :
// sptxSay.DeviceIoControl: x1 (1) Incorrect function.
// sptxSay x 0 0 29 E (ioctl status length senseLength)

- no ACHI
- safe mode didn't help
- tried WinPE (SuperWinPE), got bluescreen after logo animation

BUT, finally, Hiren's BootCD to the rescue

i did both dump/patching and flashing in the Mini Windows XP
Don't forget to remove the CD when flashing, or else you would recieve another error

Thanks guys!

I had the same problem trying to dump with Windows 7 x64. Switching from AHCI to IDE in the BIOS and then using Hiren's BootCD to dump & flash the firmwares worked for me too!

Thank's for the tip about Hiren's BootCD, bugmenot. And much thanks & respect for all the hard work you've put into this program, ala42. My Mat[*Profanity*]a DVD-RAM UJ870BJ is now RPC1 which is awesome because I often travel between 3 different DVD regions.

mar2u · **Joined:** Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:14 pm **Posts:** 3

bugmenot wrote:

BUT, finally, Hiren's BootCD to the rescue

Thanks also from my side: with Hiren's Mini XP I managed to flash the ROM at last.

godamnarmsrace · **Joined:** Sat Aug 21, 2010 12:10 pm **Posts:** 3

Hi,

Newbie here. I spent a couple of hours looking at a bunch of posts to try and sort out my firmware issues for my Toshiba Matshita UJ-850S dvd rom drive. I am trying to make it region free and I downloaded the Matshitawindump and the Matshitawinflash and when I got to the Matshitawinflash set I realised I didn't have the firmware to drop in.

I can see in your example you have used the file
"UJ-850S_1.05\UJ-850S_1.05_RPC1.dat"

I assume that is the file I need but I cannot find it anywhere.

ala42 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 21, 2010 12:39 pm

Read the first post.

godamnarmsrace · **Joined:** Sat Aug 21, 2010 12:10 pm **Posts:** 3

ala42 wrote:

Read the first post.

I'm sorry but this has just confused me even more.

ala42 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:18 pm

> The dump tools creates two files of ~800kb size, an original and an RPC1 patched firmware file that can be flashed with the flash tool.
What is so confusing ?

godamnarmsrace · **Joined:** Sat Aug 21, 2010 12:10 pm **Posts:** 3

ala42 wrote:

> The dump tools creates two files of ~800kb size, an original and an RPC1 patched firmware file that can be flashed with the flash tool.
What is so confusing ?

I'm sorry I just got what you meant and found the file in the dump file. Thanks.

erklaerbaer · **Joined:** Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:20 pm **Posts:** 2

Hi there

My drive is an Matshita UJ-892AS, in a Sony Vaio VPCZ12Z9E. I guess this should be supported by the WinDump- / WinFlash-Tool.
I could dump the firmware and I also could flash the RPC1-Firmware ... DiskInfo-Tool shows (after flash):
Firmware: 1.21
Vendor specific: 912140KMEHG95119615
Extra info: none
Drive region status: No Lock Detected

But when I insert another Regioncode-DVD, it still get's an error saying that it cannot be played because of a copy protection (similar). I installed AnyDVD, to use it for Region settings, but I'm not really sure, what I have to do in which order to get it going.

Can anybody help me?

Thank you
bear

OS: Win 7 Prof 64bit
Drive: Matshita UJ-892AS

Puma · **Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:43 pm

Quote:

But when I insert another Regioncode-DVD, it still get's an error saying that it cannot be played because of a copy protection (similar). I installed AnyDVD, to use it for Region settings, but I'm not really sure, what I have to do in which order to get it going

not known if anydvd works correctly with these drives. One member had success by using DVD43

erklaerbaer · **Joined:** Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:20 pm **Posts:** 2

Seems to work with DVFabPasskey.
Thanks for the help!

polar_bd73 · **Joined:** Mon Dec 25, 2006 5:08 am **Posts:** 2

Hi, any update for UJ240as RPC1 firmware?
I am trying to use AnyDvD, but when I changed to a different region disc, it tells me need to set the region of the disc for the hardware first. I seems to left 1 chance to fix the drive.

ala42 wrote:

nekrosoft13 wrote:

Ala any chance for UJ-2xx Blu-ray drives support?

Yes, but it takes time, as I have to make a new rpc1 patch from scratch.

chef · **Posted:** Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:12 pm

polar_bd73 wrote:

Hi, any update for UJ240as RPC1 firmware?
I am trying to use AnyDvD, but when I changed to a different region disc, it tells me need to set the region of the disc for the hardware first. I seems to left 1 chance to fix the drive.

ala42 wrote:

nekrosoft13 wrote:

Ala any chance for UJ-2xx Blu-ray drives support?

Yes, but it takes time, as I have to make a new rpc1 patch from scratch.

What should that give with a matSHITa drive??

oxymoron · **Joined:** Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:56 am **Posts:** 2

ala42 wrote:

lindilou wrote:

Oops... I mean for the UJ235A Blu-ray drive..

I can dump the firmware from the BD drives in the mean time, but can not patch it and have not found the RPC code yet. Currently a different project and football have higher priority.

Hi ala42: were you able to dump firmware from this Blu-ray drive using the regular dump tool? Or did you discover the correct vendor specific commands for the Blu-ray drives to access their internal address space? Or did you get decoded firmware from this drive in another way? Anyway, are you prepared to share the info?

TIA,
oxymoron

djunkymayl · **Joined:** Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:27 pm **Posts:** 1

bugmenot wrote:

BUT, finally, Hiren's BootCD to the rescue

+1 thanks for the tip. I successfully flashed a UJ840S under Mini XP on an old Toshiba Satellite.
Dragging and dropping the .dat onto the .bat didn't launch the flasher under Mini XP (perhaps this was to be expected? I don't know, this was my first time running Mini XP), but it worked just fine from the command line.

Ubuntu + libdvdcss + VLC and it's all good.

Many thanks to ala42 and all others involved; I'd more or less given up on this drive.

chef · **Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:04 pm

What would you guys do without our one-touch mouse and a gui??

Time to learn to use the commandline.

FourPlay26 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:47 am

Hi There I do not think that you can help yet but is there a code or a flash utility for the matshita bd-mlt uj240es to make it region free?

By what I have read so far you are doing excellent work and it is very much appreciated by all.

Regards

devilsclaw · **Joined:** Sat Jan 12, 2002 6:08 am **Posts:** 331

this is still a request please follow the request rules

chef · **Posted:** Thu Sep 09, 2010 7:22 am

devilsclaw wrote:

this is still a request please follow the request rules

Right on, this and also this thread is not called "MAtshita BD writer" but "Matshita DVD writer" .....

Post #1 in this threads explains it, please ALL take the time to read it carefully.

FourPlay26 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2010 2:01 am

Chef & Devilsclaw

Yes I did read the 1st post and did see that BD burners are not supported yet and Yes the topic is DVD Writer not BD writer, next time I will word it better.

Do I start a new Thread for Matshita BD-Writers?

All I am trying to find out is that if region free is possible with this drive and if a patch is being worked on by someone with expert knowledge and time to be kind enough to have the interest in doing this.

chef · **Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:44 am

Just make a request with all necessary info please.

If there is any sign of patches I'm sure someone will create a new collection thread.

FourPlay26 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:35 am

Will do, thank you

ufoall · **Joined:** Tue Sep 07, 2010 5:51 pm **Posts:** 6

Puma wrote:

ufoall wrote:

i've update completely but still matshita uJ-850 doesnt read in windows neither at boot.. if i insert disc it orange light blinks and later orange lights stays on... can you guys help what shall i do.. i cant even install windows again...

what we supposed to do here? given us no details what you have done

here are some details ...DISCINFO VERSION : 1.7.0 BETA.12
VENDOR : MATSHITA
MODEL : DVD-RAM UJ-850S
REVISION : 1.10
VENDOR SPECIFIC : 61120UKMEHB86025547
LOADING MECHANISM : Tray
SERIAL NUMBER : HB86
NUMBER VOL. LEVELS : 256
BUFFER SIZE : 2048KB
INTERFACE : ATAPI
RPC2 SCHEME : NO
ANALOG AUDIO PLAY : YES
COMPOSITE OUTPUT : YES
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 BAR CODE : YES
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 : 24
MAX CDR WRITE SPEED: 24

problem is nothing is working..is shows dvd in my computer but disc doesnt read.. orange light stays on... after inserting disc..

chef · **Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:08 pm

"dvd read" ???

What content does the dvd have and what do you expect to happen?

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