The Firmware Page

OK. Let me try to sum the whole thing up.

1. Take the DVD out of the laptop and find the 47 contact on his IDE socket
2. Take 300 Ohm resistore and solder it to that contact
3. If you connect the other part of the resistor to the case (ground) the drive becomes master and if you solder it to the +5 volt the drive is found as slave

Few questions:
- How do you put the drive inside the laptop if it has a resistore connected onto it's back?
- On wich drives did you test this?
- What if the firmwares master/slave setting is not set to cable select?

Found a link about it:

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/PB_G3/oem_co ... drive.html

http://www.dschen.de/laptop_brenner/

Is this it?

At me is notebook Toshiba Satelite 1800-614 in which costs{stands} DVD Toshiba SD-C2502 with firmware 1313. I flash it{him} firmware 1513 and DVD have ceased to be defined{determined} in bios. Flash it{him} it was not possible what ways. DVD it was defined{determined} in DOS not in WindowsXP. BUT!!! After WindowsXP left in sleep a mode and then came back - DVD it was defined{determined} and started to work!!! Thus he was defined{determined} as slave! Thus firmware has simply changed a mode master on slave.
I answer your questions:
1. We pull out DVD and it is removed from him{it} the top cover. From the return party{side} 50 - pin a socket the long thin wire on 47 (Cable Select) contact is soldered. We insert DVD back in notebook and we pull out a wire outside. To a wire we solder the resistor and we close all this on the ground. Now we can directly on the move (before start bios) to change a mode master\slave.
2. I think what is it will work on all slim DVD Toshiba with 50 - pin a socket
3. All aforesaid needs to be started DVD on notebook which do not allow in bios to change a mode master\slave




Somebody speaks here in Russian? I could tell all process in more detail...

Try it with a USB-Floppy. So do I, because I'm tired of buying a floppy drive with every new pc. Now I have only my little USB drive and it worked on every computer not older than 2,5 years, even for booting fom it.
Try to borrow one of these things.
Greetings,
Travis

Wish I had read this first.
I flashed my Toshiba DVD in a Medion notebook.
Must have been the wrong flash as the laptop will not boot from floppy or DVD or hard drive.
It says in Bios

IDE Primary Master None
IDE Primary Slave None

I have a friend with the same system to do the DVD ROM swap but I can't get the *&*&*^ out.

It won't pull out and I've stripped it as far as I dare.
What to do?

Thanks

Disconnect HD if you can... Other than that you are, simple put, [*Profanity*]...

What was your original firmware and with what did you flash?

Blimey that was fast Hijacker. gr8.

The firmware I flashed is on my laptop which I cannot get into. It was one of yours from a site I can no longer find. Doh. Will keep looking.
If I disconnect the HD then what coz I think I can get to that.
Apparantly on my system the DVD rom is first to go and last to come out.

it was one from here
http://forum.firmware-flash.com/dl_firm ... ufactor=31

Don't know which yet. DOH. sorry

I am not telepatic...

Thanks Hijacker.
At last got the DVD drive out and booted up.
When panicking I tend to go crazy.
I think I need the 1711 flash file now.

Just to keep you updated of my mess.
I flashed the c2502 1711 firmware with xc11 flash.
I have taken out the DVD Rom and the machine now boots up.
I have tried reflashing the drive with the x1711 and 1711 firmware to no avail using the method of reinserting the DVD C2502 after boot up.
The command hangs everytime I insert the DVDRom but if I leave it out it sees the HD and then cannot find the DVD (as expected).
Thanks

OK. Up all night.
Got HD & DVD to boot up.

Tried to load x711 flash & e1711 flash.
This is the message
TOSIICA! DWD-ROM!SE-C2503 XC11 07/36/01
NEW F/W: 2001-07-01
then overwrite flash y
data transfering
now comparing
ROMNG [1] AERROR[00] Comparisn : ERROR, NOT STOP or EJECT


Also sometimes boots as the proper sd c2502 DVDROM and sometimes when trying to flash says out of support.
Obviously the flash is mixed up but can it be now fixed?

Thanks & hope there is enough info.

That roaming error is normal... Your drive should work now...

I have a problem here with a Toshiba sd-c 1502 dvd rom in Toshiba satellite 1805-s203 notebook.
Initially the DVD-ROM could not read DVDs. It could read CD-ROMs well. I thought it would be some locking problems. I tried to flash the firmware using 2502_X921_RPC1 patch.
During flashing using vup100k.exe, I got error message when comparing. After that, my dvd-rom is no longer recognized. It looks like the IDE conflicting problem you mentioned in previous posts. When system boots up, there is a message saying "IDE#0 error". It tries to read the DVD-ROM first, fails, and load the OS from the hard drive. When I tried using vup100k.exe from the floppy again, the error message is just like the common ones,
00 Master Not ATAPI device
01 Slave Not ATAPI device
Secondary:
02 Not connected
03 Not connected .

I guess I misflashed the drive and I did not record the old firmware version. Besides, the dvd-rom is an internal one which seems not easy to pull out.

I am just totally [*Profanity*] up. The warranty of the notebook expires. Is there any way to get back my dvd-rom? Where can I get the original firmware and how should I flash it again?
I has to admit that it was my mistake that I did not read through all your posts and gain more knowledge about flashing firmware before I did this dangerous job.
Thank you very much for your help.

Try to pull the HD out... And read all the posts in this topic...

I have an R2002 (was 1q35) which I have erroneously flashed with the wrong firmware (in an attempt to get it to play DVD+RW disks). It is an integral drive in the Compaq Presario 705EA. BIOS was not recognising drive. Things I have tried.

1. boot without drive and plug in - drive not detected.
2. boot with drive and without hard drive - drive not detected.
3. boot without dvd or hard drive and plug in - drive not detected.
4. Use adapter and plug into desktop ide - drive detected as slave
on channel used. But id is wrong "TOSIICA DWD....". All attempts at
flashing result in a Drive/Firmware mismatch or drive not in support
error depending whether I use V128TEG or V115TEG respectively.
I have managed to get the flashing to start by fiddling with the
connector while the flashing program was starting but it usually just
puts the drive into a romming state (further runs of the flashing
program confirm this) with the drive light flashing but the flashing
program just drops back to the prompt without flashing anything.

Now I am stuck...

I tried this in my Gateway Solo 9150 and it didn't work, any other suggestions?

My problem was similar to jpross except I have a presario 1720 with a toshiba SD-R2002 (fw 1q35) modular drive. I tried every combination of hot swapping and removing the hard drive to no avail. The only thing I could think of that would prevent the DVD-Rom from booting up without the hard drive is that Compaq uses cable select. In a cable select configuration the connection on pin 28 going to the slave drive is severed. So any drive attached to this will never act as a master even if the other drive is removed. I could be way off base here but I think it is possible. I ended up restoring the original firmware using my desktop with a laptop to ide adapter. Since my hard drives are connected on a raid card, I could free up both my primary and secondary IDE slots. I then connected the bad drive to the primary channel, booted into dos and flashed the drive.

Jpross, your problem flashing from your desktop could be another IDE conflict. Did you connect the bad drive in combination with any other drive? If not you may have a bad adapter or connection. The adapter I bought [*Profanity*] into the back of my drive making a solid connection.
Good Luck!

P.S. Anyone with information about a firmware for this drive that will allow reading DVD+RW please contact me. I know the 1W26 can read +RW but the program will not let me update with this firmware.

I flashed my drive with 1711 and it was not longer recognized bei the System. Yesterday, while installing a new harddisk, I started the notebook without Harddisk. My SD-C2502 was back again (as IDE-Master), and I could flash it with 1313. After this I installed the new HD and now everything works again!

NorbertM

Yes... Also a solution... Was mentioned before...

Dear Yanhao,

thanks for the feedback.

Here are the correct firmware version. Maybe you´ll need another notebook to flash the drive again.
Please read the Readme.txt file in this zip file for instructions.

I hope this will help.

regads

Toshiba Europe GmbH
Storage Device Division Hotline

E-mail: SDDInfo@toshiba-teg.com
Internet: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/storage
Fax: +49 (0) 4421 973 8 1991





"yanhao" <yanhao@vip.sina.com>
15.04.2003 14:46


To: "'SDDTechnical'" <SDDTechnical@toshiba-teg.com>
cc:
Subject: Re: Toshiba Europe Storage Device Division: please help me about wrong firmware


Dear Sir or Madam:
My device information as follow:

1. 'Model No.' SD R-2102
2. 'ROM Ver.' 1316
3. 'Serial No.' 25ED313004
4. 'Ver. No.' 300

I use ROM Ver . 1916 to flash firmware, my device can’t be found in v128TEG.exe now!!! Please help me.
Attechment is the firmware which I used it in last flash firmware

Best wishes, yanhao
yanhao@vip.sina.com



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发件人: SDDTechnical [mailto:SDDTechnical@toshiba-teg.com]
发送时间: 2003年4月15日 18:06
收件人: yanhao@vip.sina.com
主题: Toshiba Europe Storage Device Division: please help me about wrong firmware


Dear Yanhao,

thank you for the update.

The required information you will find on the drive´s label.
Please send me the firmware which you have installed on the drive.

Thank you

Best regads

Toshiba Europe GmbH
Storage Device Division Hotline

"yanhao" <yanhao@vip.sina.com>
15.04.2003 11:43

To: "'SDDTechnical'" <SDDTechnical@toshiba-teg.com>
cc:
Subject: 答复: Toshiba Europe Storage Device Division: please help me about wrong firmware



Dear Sir or Madam:
Thanks for you reply, my system says "IDE #1 ERROR" at boot screen. I can’t access this device in Windows and dos OS. How to get this information?

Best regards, yanhao
yanhao@vip.sina.com


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发件人: SDDTechnical [mailto:SDDTechnical@toshiba-teg.com]
发送时间: 2003年4月15日 17:38
收件人: yanhao@vip.sina.com
主题: Toshiba Europe Storage Device Division: please help me about wrong firmware


Dear Yanhao,

thank you for contacting Toshiba Technical Support.

Which firmware did you install?

In order to send you the correct, latest version of firmware for your Toshiba drive, we require information which you will find on the drive's label:

1. 'Model No.' (Begins with: 'XM', 'SD-M', 'SD-C', 'SD-R', 'SD-W' + 4 digit number)
2. 'ROM Ver.' (4 digits)
3. 'Serial No.' (10 digits)
4. 'Ver. No.' (3 digits) - if you see one or two dot(s) behind this number please tell us about it, it's important!

Based on this information we will be able to forward you the correct and latest version of firmware for your Toshiba drive, if this will resolve your issue.

Thank you

Best regads

Toshiba Europe GmbH
Storage Device Division Hotline

"yanhao" <yanhao@vip.sina.com>
15.04.2003 11:05

To: <sddinfo@toshiba-teg.com>
cc:
Subject: please help me about wrong firmware





Dear Sir or Madam:
I flash Toshiba SD R2102 Firmware, after it says "Good". When I
reboot my notebook, system says "IDE #1 ERROR". I guess I using wrong
version Firmware, Is my drive dead? Can you help me? Please.

Best wishes, yanhao
yanhao@vip.sina.com

yanhao, you should have known not to flash a 19** firmware onto your 13** drive. Toshiba does not offer firmware updates online and I know that they know that you got the firmware from here. I am very surprised that they actually helped you.

I have no idea what you are trying to say with the post above. What firmware did they send you?

Toshiba sent the firmware file to end users?!?

Unbelivable... Wich on did he sent?

im having similar problems with a misflashed toshiba sd-c2502 rom 1313 drive.

short of booting with a 2nd dvdrom drive that is still good, everything else will cause vup to give me an *** UNKNOWN ROM TYPE !! *** error once it hits the secondary slave detection.

any ideas of what i could do to force a rom write? does vup100k still support the -irq and -prt command line switches?

i've come to the conclusion that the bios loading up kills the drive... it has power and will open/close until the system starts up its os boot process...

i'm gonna try and grab a slimline to ide adapter and see if i can reflash using my desktop. $9 for an adapter beats the hell out of $260 for a new drive