Liggy’s and Dee’s BLOG

CD Freaks published an Optiarc AD-7240S drive review on their site.

The Optiarc AD-7240S firmwares 1.00 and 1.01 have been made available for download. Included are the RPC1 and bitsetting patches.

Thanks to Jamescooley1 and budzos for their patience testing my bitsetting code until it worked.

[Update]Pulled the bitsetting firmwares since they still seems to be buggy[/Update]
[Update2]Released fixed versions of the bitsetting firmwares again[/Update2]

The routines for querying user input on the command line were not working properly on some platforms (at least Linux and Mac – probably also DOS). A fix for this problem has been released with Binflash version 1.47a.

Since GUI versions have not been affected these were not updated.

Binflash version 1.47 has just been released. It adds support for the Optiarc AD-7240S and hopefully also for AD-5240S, AD-7241S and AD-7243S drives.

Besides that flashing is done in a new thread on the Windows GUI versions. This will hopefully make the GUI a little more responsive while flashing.

Happy new year everyone!

The following two firmwares have just been added:

• Optiarc AD-7200A firmware 1.83 incl. RPC1 patch
• Optiarc AD-7910S firmware 1.D0 incl. Booktype, Riplock and RPC1 patch

In Binflash version 1.46 I introduced a bug that prevented flashing of firmwares that did not provide a bootcode version. This mostly affected firmwares for NEC (not Optiarc) branded slimline drives. This bug has been fixed in release 1.46a.

Hello everyone,

I know that it has been very silent here for quite a while. But due to the ammount of stress at work I was not really in the mood for spending much time on firmwares in the evenings. Now that I’m on holiday, I found the time to work on the firmwares that I had on my harddisc waiting to be patched.

Due to some recent firmware updates containing multiple firmwares, I also had to update Binflash to version 1.46 in order to find the best matching version within this update.

The following firmwares have been added to our site:

• TDK DVDRW 880N Firmware 1.39
• NEC ND-3500A Firmware 2.98
• Sony AW-Q170A Firmware 1.74
• Optiarc AD-5170S Firmware 101B
• Optiarc AD-5200A Firmware 1.09
• Optiarc AD-5200S Firmware 1.04
• Optiarc AD-5200S Firmware 1.09
• Optiarc AD-5590A Firmware 1.04
• Optiarc AD-5590A Firmware 1.05
• NEC ND-6650A Firmware 1.43
• NEC ND-6650A Firmware 2.43
• Sony AW-G170A Firmware 1.75
• Sony AW-G170S Firmware 1.73
• Optiarc AD-7200A Firmware 1.09
• Optiarc AD-7200S Firmware 1.09
• Optiarc AD-7200S Firmware 1.J1
• Sony DRU-V204A Firmware 1.60
• Sony DRU-V200S Firmware 1.60
• Optiarc AD-7201A Firmware 1.09
• Optiarc AD-7201S Firmware 1.09
• Optiarc AD-7203A Firmware 1.06b
• Optiarc AD-7203A Firmware 1.07
• Optiarc AD-7203A Firmware 1.09
• Optiarc AD-7203S Firmware 1.J1
• Optiarc AD-7203S Firmware 1.06
• Optiarc AD-7540A Firmware 1.D3
• Optiarc AD-7590A Firmware 1.04
• Optiarc AD-7590A Firmware 1.05
• Optiarc AD-7590S Firmware 1.01
• Optiarc AD-7590S Firmware 1.02
• Optiarc AD-7593A Firmware 1.02
• Optiarc AD-7593A Firmware 1.04
• Optiarc AD-7910A Firmware 1.D1

Please note that some of these firmwares can only be flashed with Binflash version 1.46 or higher. Due to the amount of patches it is not unlikely that some patched firmwares will not work as expected. Most patches have not been tested.

I wish everyone a merry christmas and a happy new year 2009.

Released 1.Z3 for the Optiarc AD-72xx series drives.

Versions available for the follwoing drives. Flash the drive with BinFlash.

Please make sure you choose the correct firmware to match your drive.

Supported drives.

AD-7200A/S

AD-7201A/S

AD-7203A/S

You can download the firmwares from our firmware page, here.

Binflash version 1.45 has just been published. It mainly adds support for Optiarc AD-7910A and AD-7913A drives. There’s is also an untested support for some AD-5170A drives used in duplicators.

Users of the Mac version please note that this version was compiled on OS X 10.5 with XCode 3.0. As a result this version might not run on 10.2 or older anymore but I couldn’t test this myself.

AD-72xx series Modified Firmware 1.Z2 released

1.Z2 Modified firmwares available for the AD-7200A/S and AD-7203A/S

You can download them from our page.