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I’ve just released Binflash version 1.61 which includes the fix for (at least some) AD-7283S drives and also adds support for AD-7250H and AD-7270H drives (AD-7260S and AD-7280S OEM drives)

Binflash has been updated to version 1.60, adding support for AD-7280S OEM drives from IO-Data. Firmwares for this drive are incompatible with regular AD-7280S firmwares.

The following firmwares have been added too:

• Optiarc AD-5690H Firmware 4AH5
• Optiarc AD-7251H Firmware 1H8K
• Optiarc AD-7280S Firmware 1.20
• Optiarc AD-7690H Firmware 1.00
• Optiarc AD-7700H Firmware 1.01

Merry Christmas everyone!

Binflash has just been updated to version 1.59. This version includes support for the AD-7710H drive.

Binflash has been updated to version 1.58. This update mainly includes support for AD-5960H and AD-7960H drives and finally offers proper support for flashing AD-7280S drives that was broken in 1.57
Users on the command line will now also see drives that may potentially work but are not properly implemented yet.

Thanks a lot to NewFish for his help to get the flash support for AD-7280S drives implemented.

The AD-7280S bitsetting patch probably still contain bugs and will perhaps not properly booktype discs.
[UPDATE]The bitsetting patch was confirmed to be working[/UPDATE]

If you downloaded the AD-7280S firmwares before November 25th, please re-download the package if you want to flash a bitsetting firmware as the old patch would result in freezes.

In order to save server space, all firmware files have been re-compressed. In the past every single patched firmware was provided as a single ZIP file. Now all patches of the same firmware version are included in one single 7-Zip archive.

Due to the better compression of 7-Zip compared to ZIP and the usage of solid compression, it was possible to reduce the required storage from 1.4 Gigabytes to 250 Megabytes.

For you this means that with one download you will get all different patches of a single firmware version. However this also means that you may have to download 7-Zip decompression software if you do not already have a compatible tool on your PC.

While all previous downloads should be available again, certain files could be missing due to problems in the automatic conversion. If you notice missing files, please let us know by adding a comment below this post.

Several firmwares have just been published on our site:

• Optiarc AD-5260S Firmware 1.00b with Booktype, Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch
• Optiarc AD-5260S Firmware 1.Z0 with Booktype, Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch
• Optiarc AD-5260S Firmware 1.Z5 with Booktype, Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch
• Optiarc AD-5680H Firmware 3AHF with Riplock, Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch
• Optiarc AD-5970H Firmware 3APE with Riplock, Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch
• Optiarc AD-7260S Firmware 1.61 with Booktype, Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch
• Sony DRU-880S Firmware 1.61 (almost identical to Optiarc AD-7260S FW 1.61)
• Optiarc AD-7280S Firmware 1.00 with Booktype, Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch
• Optiarc AD-7280S Firmware 1.01 with Booktype, Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch
• Optiarc AD-7591S Firmware 1.84 with Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch
• Optiarc AD-7591S Firmware 1.84b with Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch
• Optiarc AD-7700H Firmware 1.V0 with Riplock, Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch
• Optiarc AD-7701H Firmware 2.85 with Riplock, Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch
• Optiarc AD-7703S Firmware 1.T0 with Riplock, Auto-Reset and RPC1 patch

Unfortunately flashing the AD-7280S is likely to be impossible until there is an official firmware update available and Binflash can be adapted accordingly.

Next step will probably be re-packaging all firmwares in order to significantly reduce sizes – the current firmware archive needs about 1.4 GB disk space. Instead of having multiple archives for different patches of a single firmware, they will all be combined into one archive probably using 7-Zip instead of ZIP. I just need to figure out how to best do this more or less automatically

I just uploaded Binflash version 1.57 which adds support for the AD-7280S and compatible drives and also contains an improved region code reset routine.

[Update]Looks like flashing the AD-7280S does not work. This is being looked into – for the time being you can only dump your current firmwares but not flash them.[/UPDATE]

I’ve just published Binflash version 1.56. Unlike most previous versions, this one does not only add support for additional drives (AD-5970H in this version) or fix bugs, it also contains new functionality:

On the command line you get two new options -queryrpc and -resetrpc. The first one is used to display your drive’s current region code settings and will probably also work on drives other than NEC or Optiarc. The second option allows you to reset your drive’s DVD region counter. You can either issue a vendor reset that decrements the vendor counter by one and giving you 5 user changes again or you can run a global reset that gives you 4 vendor and 5 user changes again. Please keep in mind that due to the restricted lifetime of the used flash chips it is highly recommended to use RPC1 or Auto-Reset firmwares instead. Using this function too often may damage your drive.

In the Windows GUI version you have an additional button that shows a menu with your drive’s current region code settings and buttons to reset the counter if possible.

Binflash version 1.55 fixes a problem that may lead to corrupted firmware dumps on some older NEC drives. Affected drives are at least ND-3550A, ND-3551A, ND-4550A and ND-4551A. However other drives could be affected as well.

Binflash version 1.54 has just been released. This version adds support for AD-7591A and AD-7591S drives.