Liggy’s and Dee’s BLOG

This time we have an update for everyone who has an AD-5670S, AD-5960S or AD-7670S drive. A couple of firmwares have been uploaded for these drives – unfortunately I could only implement bitsetting on the AD-7670S firmware because basic bitsetting routines were missing on the other firmwares. The AD-5670S and AD-5960S mainly seem to be used as “Apple Superdrive”.

In order to flash these firmwares, a new Binflash release v1.48 has been released too. It adds support for the drives and also eliminates an annoying bug in the GUI versions that caused long wait times after flashing or dumping a firmware.

After adding the column to the download table two days ago, I can now provide the first auto-reset firmwares. These firmwares do not permanently store DVD region settings but provide you with 5 possible region changes each time you insert a new disc. Thanks go out to V1rtual for testing the patches.

I also removed the AD-719x and AD-722x drives from the menu and instead added a list of drives that are not supported by us because they are either OEM drives or because there’s still no information or firmware available like for the AD-7703S or AD-7930H.

The following firmwares (bitsetting only) have been fixed and hopefully work as expected now:
Optiarc AD-7593A firmware 1.05
Optiarc AD-7593S firmware 1.00
Optiarc AD-7910S firmware 1.D0 and 1.D1

I received this AD-7593S firmware 1.00 from V1rtual today. Added bitsetting, riplock and RPC1 patches here.

During the last few days I’ve been a little busy again patching some firmwares. If possible, bitsetting was added and all firmwares also have RPC1 versions and Riplock patch where required. Due to the ammount of firmwares that have been patched, it’s not unlikely that a couple of files are still buggy. So please report if something is not working as expected.

These are the new firmwares:

• NEC ND-3500A firmware 2.19
• NEC ND-3500A firmware 2.58
• Optiarc AD-5170A firmware 1.H1
• Optiarc AD-5200A firmware 1.G1
• Optiarc AD-5200A firmware 1.G8
• Optiarc AD-5200A firmware 1.GA
• Optiarc AD-5200A firmware 1.05 for bootcode 14 (new drive hardware)
• Optiarc AD-5240S firmware 1.02
• Optiarc AD-7200A firmware 1.W2
• Optiarc AD-7200S firmware 1.0A
• Optiarc AD-7200S firmware 1.0B
• Optiarc AD-7200S firmware 1.D3
• Optiarc AD-7201S firmware 1H0E (no bitsetting patch required)
• Optiarc AD-7201S firmware 1H9K (no bitsetting patch required)
• Optiarc AD-7240S firmware 1.02
• Optiarc AD-7241S firmware 1.01
• Optiarc AD-7241S firmware 1.02
• Optiarc AD-7243S firmware 1.01
• Optiarc AD-7243S firmware 1.01b
• Optiarc AD-7540A firmware 1.42c
• Optiarc AD-7540A firmware 1.W0
• Optiarc AD-7543A firmware 1-I1 (no bitsetting patch possible)
• Optiarc AD-7593A firmware 1.05
• Optiarc AD-7633A firmware 1.00b
• Optiarc AD-7910S firmware 1.D1
• Plextor PX-820SA firmware 1.00 (Optiarc AD-7200S OEM)
• Sony DRU-842A firmware 1.60 (Optiarc AD-7200A OEM)
• Sony DRU-870S firmware 1.60 (Optiarc AD-7240S OEM)

Please use the latest version of Binflash if you want to flash any of these firmwares.

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]

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

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.

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.