Liggy's and Dee's BLOG http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog This is Liggy's and Dee's weblog Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:05:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 New Binflash version and another bunch of firmwares http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/309 http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/309#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:05:41 +0000 Liggy http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/?p=309 Binflash has been updated to version 1.63 to include support for the LiteOn iHAS124 W drive. Before Optiarc decided to go out of business, this drive probably should have been named Optiarc AD-7320S. Flashing this drive has not been tested yet, so there is a slight chance that this will not work properly. This drive does not use the NEC/Optiarc bitsetting commands, so bitsetting is not supported by Binflash and no bitsetting patches are available. Chances are however (yet unverified) that the drive will support LiteOn bitsetting commands, so e.g. Nero DiscSpeed might work instead. Also the RPC1 patch could potentially be broken, in this case please use auto-reset firmware instead.

Also the following firmwares have been added:

All the firmwares include RPC1 and Auto-Reset patches, several firmwares also have bitsetting patches. Please check the firmware details page on the drive overview

]]> http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/309/feed 3 Server move http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/301 http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/301#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:23:29 +0000 Liggy http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/?p=301 This site was moved to a different server today. Please report back if you notice anything that has stopped working.

]]> http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/301/feed 0 A few more firmwares http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/290 http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/290#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:14:06 +0000 Liggy http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/?p=290 I just provided another bunch of firmware updates. Probably not too many to follow. :(

The following firmwares have been uploaded

  • Optiarc AD-5280S firmware 1.01 including Bitsetting, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch – now compatible with newer generation drives
  • Optiarc AD-5280S firmware 1.Z6 including Bitsetting, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch – only compatible with -CB drives (mainly used for duplicator devices)
  • Optiarc AD-5280S firmware 1.Z7 including Bitsetting, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch – only compatible with -CB drives (mainly used for duplicator devices)
  • Optiarc AD-7280S firmware 1.60 (Sony OEM) including Bitsetting, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch
  • Optiarc AD-7710H firmware 1.V0 including Riplock, Bitsetting, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch
  • Optiarc AD-7740H firmware 1.S0 including Riplock, Bitsetting, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch

Also there is a flasher executable from Optiarc that should be compatible with most of their drives. Just in case you want to have an alternative to Binflash.

]]> http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/290/feed 6 New Firmwares and new Binflash version http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/280 http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/280#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:01:29 +0000 Liggy http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/?p=280 After being quiet for a while we finally have some updates again.

First of all Binflash has been updated to version 1.62 to include support for the AD-7740H drive series.

Also the following firmwares have been uploaded:

  • Optiarc AD-5280S firmware 1.01 including Bitsetting, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch
  • Optiarc AD-5280S firmware 1.01b including Bitsetting, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch
  • Optiarc AD-7261S firmware 1.Z5 including Bitsetting, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch
  • Optiarc AD-7280S firmware 1.01 should now also support previously unsupported drives
  • Optiarc AD-7283S firmware 1.01 including Bitsetting, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch
  • Optiarc AD-7283S firmware 1.01b including Bitsetting, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch
  • Optiarc AD-7717H firmware 102A including Riplock, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch
  • Optiarc AD-7740H firmware 1.00 including Bitsetting, Riplock, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch
  • Sony DRX-S90U firmware 1.D1 including Riplock, RPC1 and Auto-Reset patch (AD-7740H OEM drive which supports bitsetting on DVD+R and DVD+RW out of the box)
]]> http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/280/feed 2 Binflash version 1.61 released http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/277 http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/277#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:14:54 +0000 Liggy http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/?p=277 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)

]]> http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/277/feed 4 Several updates http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/270 http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/270#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:36:14 +0000 Liggy http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/?p=270 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:

Merry Christmas everyone!

]]> http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/270/feed 1 Another Binflash update http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/267 http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/267#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:00:29 +0000 Liggy http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/?p=267 Binflash has just been updated to version 1.59. This version includes support for the AD-7710H drive.

]]> http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/267/feed 0 Binflash version 1.58 released http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/258 http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/258#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:10:46 +0000 Liggy http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/?p=258 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. :D

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.

]]> http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/258/feed 0 Changes in firmware downloads http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/253 http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/253#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:31:19 +0000 Liggy http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/?p=253 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.

]]> http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/253/feed 2 Several firmwares added http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/245 http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/245#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:22:11 +0000 Liggy http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/blog/?p=245 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 ;)

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