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Hello,

I was hoping someone could tell me if any region free firmware is available yet for the MacBook Pro 13" early 2011. Please see my drive details below. You will notice that the firmware listed differs from the one already available for download here: http://files.rpc1.org/index.php?act=view&id=5811. Thanks for your help.

MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-898:

Firmware Revision: HE13
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 1024 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media:
Type: DVD-ROM
Blank: No
Erasable: No
Overwritable: No
Appendable: No

Read post 1 from this thread please and that will tell you everything you need to know. Use the dump and flash programs as instructed and you can make your drive region free very easily.

Once you do it, let us have a copy of your original and RPC1 firmware.

Please note that if your MAC OS version is 10.6.5 or 10.6.6, the programs won't work - you'll either have to downgrade your OS version to a pre-10.6.5 version or do it under Windows using the equivalent Windows versions of these tools from here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=46246&st=0&sk=t&sd=a.

I believe that's the same firmware revision that's on the 15" MacBook Pro too, although i've managed to get an Optiarc drive one. If you can dump the firmware, it'll save me having to sneakily do it in my local Apple Store

i have a macbook pro early 2011 with UJ-898 HE13 and used MatshitaWinDump and MatshitaWinFlash under windows.
now i would like to post the original + rpc1 firmware here, but i don't seem to be able to add an attachment.

Excellent! Just zip the two files up and upload the file to a free host such as http://www.mediafire.com and then post the link in here. Thank you!

here you are:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ipygdpak3dpl774/UJ-898_HE13_Stock_RPC1.zip

Hi there.
Thanks for reading.
I have followed all above instructions.
Have run DVD Info X app.
Tells me I do have Matshita UJ 868 KB19
Matshita Flasher downloaded
the rpc-1 dat dragged ontoit.
But then Message appears:

simple_flash V 2.01 compiled at Feb 4 2010 00:22:16
Selected firmware: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868 KB19
Could not open device
logout
[Process completed]


Before I ran the dump - maybe I shouldn't have!

As now the entire drive is no longerfunctioning.
Sorry for the incompetence!

Needy,

Chrish

Earliest ttrial it aborted, sighting that the drive does not seem to be a Matshita.

have a 2 yo MacBook Pro and am running Snow Leopard.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks!

OS 10.5/6 could be the reason.

I thought I'd had issues with 10.6.6 but it turned out to be something else instead. I wonder if the drive has gone into recovery mode? Easiest way to check is to boot up the laptop, open up System Profiler in /Applications/Utilities , then select "Disc Burning" on the left hand menu.

Tell us if it comes up with anything. If not, also check the ATA and/or Serial-ATA sections to see if the drive is still listed. It may just require a reflash. Hopefully.

Possible problems are you have no root permission or another program is blocking the drive.

Hi ala42,

I just bought a UJ-875(that was labeled on the drive) from the net, and when I plugged into my Mac, it shows UJ-85JA with a firmware version 1.02.

it is currently an RPC-2 drive, and I have created a dump out of it, would appreciate if you could take a look at it and work out a RPC-1 Firmware for my little baby which will find a way into my Santa Rosa MBP 17".

And here's the dump :

http://rapidshare.com/files/455108564/M ... dump_0.dat

Thanks a lot for your help!

Anson

Read post 1 of this thread please and that will tell you everything you need to know. Use the dump and flash programs as instructed and you can make your drive region free all by yourself and very easily too.

Once you do it, let us have a copy of your original and RPC1 firmware.

I will combine them in a zip file once I have success in flashing my drive into RPC1. However, at this stage, the link provided is broken so I can't get hold of the test software which ala42 helped. Am working with him now and see if I could get hold of it tonight and test it.

Will keep all of you posted.

Anybody know if this will work with the old cw8123 combo?

unlikely. only for dvd writers

hi guys! my girlfriend has the same problem that unfortunately many of u have..she can't deal with it, so im trying for her eventhough i don't have a Mac ( i'm struggling a little bit now)

The dvd model is a:

MATSHITADVD-R UJ-867 :

Modèle : MATSHITADVD-R UJ-867
Révision : HB01
Numéro de série : HG027B3E
Disque amovible : Non
Protocole : ATAPI
Numéro de l’unité : 0
Type de socket : Interne
Scrutation de faible puissance : Oui

the computer is a macbook and it's running a Mac OS X version 10.5.4

I downloaded the firmware and the flasher, i move them on the desktop and i drag and drop the right file on the flash tool, but nothing happened.

I wonder if anyone of you can help me please as i think it's not worth to spend 100 euros in apple to solve the problem

Doesn't sound like it worked right. Why not try making your own firmware using the flash dumping tool first? Then use the one it creates and see if that works?

thank you for your quick answer i see if someone that has had the same problem can answer that too and i proceed tomorrow! hopefully i can fix that

Does anyone know if the flash software will be available for OSX 10.6.6?

They have already released 10.6.7 but I'm holding out updating until I can flash the drive in 10.6.6.

i am on 10.6.7 but i used windows 2000 under vmware fusion to use the windows flasher version and it worked without any problems at all.

Hi Everyone,

I've read as much of this board as I can, and can't find anyone with a similar problem.

I have followed every instruction, step-by-step however, I get the following error :

simple_flash V 2.01 compiled at Feb 4 2010 00:22:16
Selected firmware: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898 HA07
fatal: Selected drive (null) does not appear to be a matshita device

Does anyone know how to sort this?

Appreciate your help

Rhys

was that not asked and answered on the previous page

Hi Great thread - but
Tried as instructed on my MacBook Pro (running OSX 10.6.7)
with a Mathsita UJ-898 HE13

When I dropped the .dat file onto MatshitaFlasher 0.6
Terminal gave me the following message:
line 8: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
line 9: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Does that mean that the .dat file was faulty?
Or that I have to do it under windows (ugh!)
Many thanks Chris

it doesn't work on anything above 10.6.5. read earlier threads.

you can do it using vmware like i did.

read some posts before posting. its well documented