The Firmware Page

Hi ALL

Sorry but I am a bit stuck here ... my Pioneer R109 DVD has version 1.17 FW which I am trying to upgrade
to 1.58 I have done this kind of thing before using other DVD Manufactered makes, but I am getting no where fast with this device....

I am running windows XP and am trying to flash within the windows environment ( NOT DOS )
I dowmloaded R109_FW158EU extracted the 3 files I needed .. then downloaded DVRFlash v2.1
Then I ID my DVD Drive using DVRFlash then ran cmd from windows typed in the following below as per the instructions
DVRFlash -vf I: R9100009.158 R9100109.158
and nothing happens
I: being my Pioneer drive letter

Does DVRFlash need to be in a particular location or are the R109_FW158EU files not where DVRFlash can see them ?? all are in a folder on my desktop ? no place does it say that they need to be in a particular place

Sorry about this - I feel a bit silly as I do know a bit abot PC's i.e installing/Flashing/upgrading etc but this one has got me stumped .. do I need to burn those 3 R109_FW158EU files to a CD and put that in the Pioneer drive ?

Any help would really be appriciated

Thanks

Why don't you just run the executable flasher??

Do you mean just double click/run R109_FW158EU instead of extracting the 3 files ??

Sorry you must mean the win32 file .. which I have run .. that just verifys the DVD Drive , when I run it again it does the sme thing i.e verifys the DVD Drive

I am obviously missing something very simple here

The executable flasher should either update your drive simply or give you an error.

Also, post the output from DVRFlash here, by running just "dvrflash", nothing else.
Also run "dvrflash -v I:" and post the output.

Again a warning! NEVER use option -vf with dvrflash!!!

I had to attach the output as a .png .. I could not find a way of copying the DVTFlash output and pasting its content

Please see pic attached

I wonder why the official flasher package shouldnt run as expected.
What does exactly happen?

Nothing at all happens ...

Am wondering should the R109_FW158EU package be unzipped i.e the 3 files within the same folder as the
DVRFlash ??

The win32 folder that contains the DVRFlash file also has a file called .DS_Store .. what does that do ?? should that be used or do you think that might be corrupted

Something must be wrong.
The R109_FW158EU package is a self executable flasher package.

DVRFlash -f H: R9100109.158

should do the same.

might be that the DVRFlash I have is duff ... do you have a link that I could use to download a version that you know should at least work ??

OK your version is much newer than mine but it still made no difference

This is what I am doing

Going into the cmd prompt which displays below

C:\Documents and Settings\Dxxxx & Sxxxx>

Then I am adding to that line to produce
C:\Documents and Settings\Dxxxx & Sxxxxx>DVRFlash -f H: R9100009.158 R9100109.158
Enter that and all I get is the output I posted ??

All the FW files and the DRVFlasher are in the same folder on my computer yet I can not see why this will not work ... could it be my Pioneer Drive ??

First run "dir".

Then use

DVRFlash -f H: R9100109.158

nothing else and post the full output here.

OK ... Might be getting somewhere now
This attempt looks like it has failed as the green light is now staying ON ( DVD Drive )

Hm, weird.

Please run just dvrflash and look what it does output.


Then please run the exe flasher... the official flasher package.

Mmmm very odd ... green light still on

Light still on and the drive is not responding ... I am going to re-boot the machine
I have to take my young one swimming and will be back in 1.5 hours if you are still about I will post my latest position

Thanks for your help thus far Chef

Well the old saying goes .. if you first fail try try again

It Works

Thank you for ALL your help

OK, looks good.

In case you want it regionfree (RPC1), you need to use a patched firmware.

Region free advice is understood thanks

This may or may not answer why I had so much trouble flashing this drive but here goes

I took out my old Hitachi DVD drive and put the above one in its place ...

As I started the flashing process I also wanted to send a quick email, but while doing so windows detected a hardware change and asked me to re-activate .. I did so with my XP disc then the system asked me to re-boot as changes would only take place once I re-booted.

But I carried on trying to flash my drive without the re-boot .. then my troubles started

This may just be coincidental then again it might explain it ??

Again thank you Chef .. its been a long time since I contacted you and once again you have been very generous and helpful as always

Kind Regards

Corrie

Yeah, sounds like the explanation for this issue.

Have Fun with your updated DVR-109!

Good morning

I decided to perform a speed test on both my DVD drives with interesting results from the Pioneer
the Sony did performed well

The Pioneer failed its speed test according to Nero, should the graph worry me ?? or are there other utilities
that will test this drive better ?? the tool is a bit old now and might not be up to scratch.

I have put up some .png files to help explain what is going on

You could use alas MCSE http://ala42.cdfreaks.com/MCSE/ to make it RPC1, remove riplock and enable Bitsetting etc. for your DVR-109.

The problem with reading the DVD+RW (your screenshot) looks like a media quality problem to me.

re-patched firmware ... tried to reflash drive .. process reports I already have the latest FW ??

Looked at some of the posts re the link you gave me, it appears that this is a very popular bit of kit you have provided

Use DVRFlash with option -f to flash your drive with the firmware you want...

Never forget that upgr* never will allow you to crossflash or flash with patched firmware or downgrading.