Pioneer dvd-109 firmware upgrade

[asphotos]

Anyone have any luck flashing their pioneer dvd-109 dvd rom to v1.40 using flashit?

dosen't seem to want to work,

anyone have any other ideas.

thanks

[chocho]

i don't have much experience in this department, but i've read that it is only possible to it via a (pc) and then install it on the mac

:-)

[Kildare]

I've flashed my 108 on my PC with DVRFlash many times with no dramas.
Not sure on the Mac department too.

[asphotos]

didn't want to lower myself to a pc, there is a program called flashit v2.0.1 that is basically a script and app for flashing the pioneer drives, but it dosent seem to recognise the dvd-109 (works with the 108).

ive sent a note to the flashit developer, so i might get an answer from him, just wanted to see if anyone else knew of any little tricks.

looks like ill have to visit a trailer park and find a peecee owner :P to help me..

(just dont feel comfortable running a firmware upgrade on virtual pc)

ps. the ddv-109 firmware is now at 1.40 which should improve DL dvd writing and also adds a heep of 8x-12x-16x discs the drive will burn.

pps. patchburn if you have a dvd rom thats finiky, does wonders. ;P

[Rayd]

i dont know if it will help, but i used that program to do my 108.... so mabe jsut wait a bit... and a update will come out.

[jobe]

unfortunately. All the roms I've seen for the 109 have been exe's. like here. Or you might like to take a look at their mac forum section which has quite a few topic pertaining to your specific drive.

EDIT: infact. this thread virtually answers your question.

If you have a PC, then be sure to flash the 109 to the latest firmware, which is now at 1.40.

Las Vegas is working diligently to get the Mac version of DVRFLash up and running to accommodate the 109.

Be sure that you have the 109 on it's own Bus and you have it set to "Master".

You also might want to make sure that you have the proper cable for the 109. To take advantage of it's speed and other features you need to use a ATA UDMA133, 80C 40 Pin cable.

Good luck & enjoy!

[asphotos]

this .exe is just a compressed and self executable zipped file (stuffit will expand it).

looks like im going to have to lower myself to a PC..

:P

[asphotos]

flashed my dvd-109 last night (on a winblows machine, using the pioneer software)

works a treat,

but my crappy phillips 8x -r discs still dont burn at 8x (4x is ok) still..

serves me right for buying cheep and dodgy!

[larfinboy]

Do you have this drive installed internally or in an external case ?

If it's installed internally does Mac OS X recognise it as a 'shipped/supported' drive ?
I've been thinking about replacing the 107 in my G5 with a 109.

[g4cube]

To get it to work with the iapps you will need patchburn or wait to see if tiger helps.

[Spice Weasel]

Hi All,

I dont suppose anyone can help, but I have the Pioneer DvR-108 in a Firewire housing connected to my iBook and I was having trouble burning TV eps to a backup disc (Tuffdisc DvD-R)..
It would always fail verification in Toast 6.07 (usually but not always the last ep on the disc failing to read when tested)

So, I decided to update the firmware thinking that maybe it was 1.4 not the new 1.8...
anyway, I download the flashit 2.0, and the firmware .exe and run the script, but it fails..
Saying something about running the program again from the command prompt or something.. (working from memory here)..

The upshot is, everywhere I look I see people getting it to work but nobody with my problem, and it doesn't seem like there is very much to go wrong..

Any ideas anyone?

Much appreciated,

SW