The Firmware Page

freeking awsm, it all worked great! i now have an rpc1 dvd drive!

just to summarise:

macbookpro 15", matshita uj-898 (hc09) drive

resorted to flashing in a winxp sp3 instance inside vmware fusion, as i am running osx 10.6.7. i used MatshitaWinDump_1.02, which at first didn't recognise the drive, but after fully shutting down and restarting the xp instance all was well. it did the dump fine, then i ran the MatshitaWinFlash program, as per the instructions on the first post of this thread, and it finished it's job ok.

one thing that gave me a moment's fright was: as soon as the MatshitaWinFlash program was done, vmware threw up a popup about my anti-virus, and "did i want to upgrade to mcafee?" (i am running avg) - innocuous enough but my xp instance had frozen and for a moment i thought i'd stuffed something up - but i suspended and restarted the instance and then everything was fine. dvdinfo reported an rpc1 drive. then i went back to osx, tried a region2 dvd in my region4 drive, got the "do you want to change your region" dialog that osx throws up. cancelled, then used Region X to switch to region 2, then played the dvd with no worries.

so, first of all, flashing my dvd drive inside vmware fusion on my macbookpro worked fine, if anyone else has to do the same thing.

secondly, should anti-virus software be disabled before flashing a drive? maybe that was mentioned somewhere in this thread but i haven't time to re-read all ten pages of posts again

and thirdly, *bug kudos* to all the folks who wrote this software, tested it, and run this forum, it's so great to be free of region-encoding shackles! do you guys take donations? maybe you have an amazon wishlist?

and lastly, is there anything you'd like me to post (eg, my dump files?)

THANK YOU!

donations are accepted, link is on the portal page. this goes for the forum server bills, not to a patcher. No nothing needed, enjoy your region free drive

Hi all,
I hope there is still someone out here, because I'm afraid I'm about to ask a stupid question. Sorry in advance...
but:
I ran the minidump, all fine. Now the instruction says: "Drop the firmware .dat file you want to flash on the MatshitaWinFlash.bat batch file."
I hope I'm just a little slow today, but where is that "firmware.dat? Its a Matshita UJ875s in a Dell XPS M1530 running Win 7 64bit Enterprise.

Thanks for the help...

run MatshitaWinDump. This will create two files, one will be the RPC1 firmware dat.

Stupid me.... Thanks, that was easy enough All working now.

no problems

help me to region free my matshita uj890 , i tried to windump it but i got a error message (with out cd and in safe mode with administrator)
dump_matshita V 0.1
Appear to have a matshita device MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ890AS 1.00
dump1
change_vendor_mode: rc-258 , tries 101
error during attemt to read memory from device \\.\H:
Press any key to continue

Read some of this thread, even one page back. Its known issue with these drives. no fix as yet

is there any other firmware to cross flash my uj890as ,

PLEASE! I'd like to know this too. Not to sound pushy or anything, but is ala42 any closer to working out a fix for this drive?

Crossflashing a matshita drive is absolutely no option.
You must realize that this slimtype drives have drive specific firmwares that are bound to the way the other devices within the computer are set up.
Why don't you get an slim external in case you really need an optical drive??

Ala42, you're a genius!

Many thanks.

Hi, everyone here,

ala42, I know you wrote a year ago: "I have not figured out yet how to build a flashable file from the dump file for the older drives." Has something changed?

I have MATSHITA UJ-830S (fw1.80) . Although it's a legacy drive, it's almost new and is a part of my TOSH Satellite laptop. I suppose many users all over the world have same drives in laptops.

The problems are standard:
1. not a region-free drive
2. DVD rip speed is cruelly limited although it"s a x8 DVD drive.

May WE ask YOU to spent some time to invent flashing of UJ-83x drives?

Many thanx in advance.

Rip speed is limited because its a slimtype drive - the hardware sets the limits in this case!

Hardly since it reads even burned data DVD+R (CMC MAG M01) with Average 6.01x and 7.98x at the End (Nero CD Speed Test4). Even better results on pressed DVD-Video (same test). I see no hardware limitation, but the Rip speed is 1.5x max. Rotten original FW

Test with pressed SL DVD and DL DVD and both types with and without encryption schemes....

Hello guys
i have a laptop from Asus and my DVD RW is not burning any kind of DVD's Media


and i got running over it
when i try to use the dump tool its not working



any help please would be appreciated

What has that to do with this thread at all?
Your drive probably has a hardware problem which is NEVER fixable via software.
Clean the drive/lens by hand with isopropanol and a q-tip.

thanks for the quick answer and i really appreciate this help

what am asking for is why the firmware is not applied on my Driver cuz of reason... ( i need to update the firmware from 1.0 )

and the reason why i did post my laptop info is to know about the version of windows and that it is x64

My Does Burn CD's But its Not burning DVD's so i need to update the firmware


i have tried that allready ..


so do u have any solution of : Why it isn't applying the Firmware as well ?

PS. i have noticed in the forums that am not the only one who has this issue .. so i hope there is a solve for this problem

No!
I already told you that this is no firmware problem, updating it (if there were an update!) gives nothing, nada, nichts!

Am sorry ??? so ur actually telling me there is no update for my Driver? than Version 1.0 ?



lets forget about my burning Dvd problem and Focus on the firmware ...

the version 1.0 is the final for :

that's what am wondering about .

No that is not what he is saying. What he is saying is that even if there is/was an update for your drive it wont fix your problem. There for there is no point in perusing a update until the other problem is fixed, if it is even possible to fix.

Exactly that. And "driver" is software, drive is hardware. Firmware is the missing link to make the hardware work at all.

My Matshita UJ8B0 optical drive doesn't work with MatshitaWinDump_1.02. It gives me error during attempt to read memory from device. What can i do?

As mentioned various times in this thread, your drive is not supported as of yet!