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I just purchased a 205 from ebay. I'm trying to flash it to the latest firmware 112. I'm not even certain it's not already flashed to the latest firmware. It is an SATA

Anyway... running DVRFlash -v brings me this

Model: BD-RW BDR-205
REV: 9.03
Status: RPC 2 (Region locked)
region: none

I try to run

DVRFlash -f E: BDR-205_FW112EU but it tells me cannot open firmware.


SO I try the firmware from the site and it just brings up a command box that says Target not found.

Please help guys...I'm pulling my hair out.

the rev tells you, its not a pioneer firmware, its oem and not supported by pioneer. firmware update you need is linked below

http://www.primera.com/downloads/suppor ... mware.html

The firmware package has always to be extracted before it can be used with DVRFlash!!!

how do I extract it? and is this firmware version below better or equal to 112? If so I'll just stick with it.

Version 9.11
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Improvement to BD-R Writing
Improvement of PureRead
Improvement of BD-RE Writing
Improvement of DVD-R Writing

Supports New BD-R SL Media:
4x Prodisc
6x Panasonic, Infomedia

Supports New BD-R DL Media:
6x Panasonic, Ritek, CMC

Supports New LTH Media:
6x BD-R LTH Umedisc, Ritek, That's, Maxell, JVC

Improvements to writing speed:
DVD+R SL (Prodisc "PRODISC_R04") - Write speed changed from 12x ZCLV to
DVD+16x
PCAV.

well I flashed the 9.11 I guess I'll stick with this unless you guys think there is more benefit to the pioneer firmware. It seems identical in looking at it. I don't understand why a different company made firmware for a pioneer drive though. The whole OEM thing I don't get really.

It's all about OEM, licenses and money making.

Well Chef,

Can you tell me how I can extract the stuff from my drive so I can use DVRFlash and the pioneer firmware?

Should work with 7zip.

Now that a 'GENERAL' BDR-205 kernel is available, you can actually crossflash your drive to the 'real thing' if you want, i.e. to the latest Pioneer 1.12 firmware, which is newer than the 9.11 provided by Primera (9.11 is basically the equivalent Primera OEM version of the older Pioneer 1.11). Besides the fact that the Pioneer firmware is newer, if any other firmware updates are going to be released for this drive in the future, you stand a better chance that they will come straight from Pioneer rather than from their various OEM partners, which is another potential advantage of crossflashing to the standard Pioneer firmware.

The files you need are here: http://www.mediafire.com/?y5y3s9zcbm9ex06

You need to unrar the two files in the same directory where DVRFlash is and then assuming that your drive letter is E:, use the following DVRFlash command to crossflash:

DVRFlash.exe -ff E: S1014000.102 S1014001.112

After a restart you'll have a standard Pioneer drive with firmware 1.12 on board, and in the future, whenever Pioneer releases an update, you can update your drive's firmware directly by using the update file provided by Pioneer (i.e. you don't have to use DVRFlash).

CVS... you are deserving of your avatar... TY!

Anyone know how I could get this Blu-Ray writer region free?

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