The Firmware Page

Firmwares without the read speed limitations are released.

You can find the page about it here:

http://hijacker.rpc1.org/toshiba_nolimit/

Post any comments in here and please, please don't spam my inbox with questions you have about them.

Read the page carefully.

Thank you.

Howdy!

The links do not work: I get an offside error message although I have disabled my firewall.

Works fine for me... Disable firewall. If you can download from http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=191 you will for sure can download from there...

Howdy!

I managed to download the file with flashget!

Now I have successfully flashed my drive and made several tests. The results are impressive: almost full reading performance for Verbatim DVD+RW (despite of some slowdowns at the end of the disk) and full 48x reading speed for CD-Rom (also CD-RW !). In addition, reading performance of VCD AND S-VCD is optimal!

Very, very good work. I am impressed. You managed to make the Toshiba DVD-Roms real allrounders! Check your E-Mail. I have sent screenshots of some tests.

Btw, does any1 have the opportunity to test the readability of 90/99 minute CD-R?

My best wishes to all! This forum is wonderful.

Wonderful- turns my machine into the fastest reader around!
Unfortunately i can't get past 12 times reading my Barracuda ATA V doesn't take it that fast. Btw don't try to flash with Toshi on Primary Master- update hangs.

The 90/99mins CD should NOT work. It's probably the limit of hardware... Don't ask me why. Ask Toshiba...

Someone test this please... I don't have any 90 mins CDs.

hello

thank you great work

did any one test if the higher speeds give more errors when reading?
Must be a reason why toshiba limited the reading speed.



I have the tosh 1612 rev 1004, can i use the 18xx firmware without any problems?? *edit* yes i can...sorry for asking




damian

All depends on the quality of the media... If it's DVD+R or DVD-R media it also depends on at what speed it was burned.

It doesn't give error, just the speed slows down when it can't read it at that speed. But overall it's still faster.

I've got a report today that SD-M1612 revA with firmware 1004 CAN READ media over 80 minutes.

Can anyone recomfirm this?

i burned 99minutes cd with my lite-on, which i can read on my tosh

will re test it now


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90 min goes very well

99min takes a while,,,,and doesn't work all the times.....

Interesting... Again SD-M1612 revA. Anyone else with other models?

SD-M1712 reads 90/99 min CDs also.

I've just flashed j808 and it seems to work perfectly.
Many thanks to Neo and Hijacker! You've done an excellent job!

Finally, I have found an old 90 minute CD-R by Platinum.

It cannot correctly be read in my 1612 revA drive. Although CDSpeed can complete the transfer rate test, the seektime test is not successful. Obviously, my drive does not seem to be able to "jump" to the data past 700 MB.

For me, that does not matter since I do not use oversize media anyway. Furthermore, my DVD-recorder (NEC 1100A) can successfully read the CD.

Sometimes you have to copy the whole CD to get data from the end of the disc...

I've flashed my Toshiba SD-M1612 revA to J806 firmware. It is still capable to read 90 and 99 min CDs, just the way it was with the orignal 1004 firmware.

Therefore x806 firmware has no limitation regarding reading data or music CDs beyond 700 MB.

I've just flashed my 1612 rev B with the J808 firmware and am having problems playing back DVD-RAM disc with power DVD.
I am getting jitters on both video and audio.
The disc was recorded on a Panasonic HS2, before I flashed it, I was using 1004 firmware.
Playback was perfect, although I have also moved it into a different computer.
Nero CD speed gives a continuous 2x read speed, I just need someone to confirm before I try to flash back, or move it into another computer.

Great work by the way, this DVD-ROM drive really rocks now, although it still doesn't rip DVD-Video as fast as my Pioneer 106 slot.
DVD-R reads at 2-3 times the 106's speed though, if only there was a way to remove the DVD-R speed lock on the 106s

Will any any of these firmwares work on the 1502?, I know this sounds like a stupid question but way back i flashed my HP 7500 cd writer with the HP 8100 firmware which changed it from a 24x 2 x 2x to 24x 4x 2x and it still working to this day.

Regards

Joe

No.

On my 1612 rev.C i get weird ups and downs in Nero DVDSpeed as well as in DVDDecrypter starting exactly at layer change. Overall extracting speed is nonetheless vastly improved. Extraction of DVD-R,+R,+RW as well, showing much more homogenous graphs because of, i assume, there is no second layer.

Adding to my previous post under Nero DVDSpeed i sometimes get 'reading error' just at the beginning of the test. When i start the test again there is no problem reading the same disc.

If it's CSS media you need to playback it first via software like PowerDVD or else Nero CD Speed will not be able to read it.

The speed usualy drops at reading the media at the edge. The speed is very fast then and if the media is not perfectly balanced it will have problems reading it.

Sorry forgot that! Now i tested audiograbbing with Feurio with bandnew CD (no protection). Feurio reports 500 C2's, duoble checking with Pio 106S showed no C2's. Should we be careful using tuned Toshiba as main audiograbber?

And while we're already changing firmware, how about a firmware that is able to read all copy protected Audio-CDs?
OK, I was just kidding. I guess that would be too difficult. At least I am happy with what you've already done

I assume thats more Hardware- than Firmware-related.

I always had good experiences and success with Plextor drives.
And maybe its better to use (older) CD-ROM drives or CD-R/W burners with protected Audio-CDs.

Not necessarily. My LiteOn LTR-40125S with it's original firmware was not very good in reading protected audio CDs. But with some upgrades (now it's an LTR-48125w) it is able to defeat many protections. So it's probably not only hardware-related.

We are not making new firmwares or improving them. Only removing limits from withing them.

Please understand that and do not ask for improving firmwares to be able to do this and that wich original they can't do.