Pioneer DVDR 108 cannot update with original Pioneer BIOS ??

[tokyootaku]

I am not sure why I am unable to flash the drive using the official Pioneer 108 inspite of the drive never used the Hacked firmware. Advise. it keeps showing not the drive when I checked it was a Pioneer and not a Piodata. Advise ?

Commandline:
J:\PIONEE~1.18B\DVRFLASH.EXE -vf L: R8100108.114

Reading firmware 'R8100108.114'...
firmware is of Normal type (PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108 1.14 )

Drive Information:
Description - PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108
Firmware Rev. - 1.14
Firmware Date - 04/09/07
Manufacturer - PIONEER
Drive is in normal mode.

Additional Drive Information:
Serial number - DIDL316798WL
Interface type - ATA
DVR generation - 0008
Kernel type - GENERAL
Normal type - GENERAL
Kernel version - 0001

The PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108 is not supported by this utility - Aborting.

Even using DVDFlash I cannot do so. Help/ Suggestions ? Cannot write a 4x no matter what Media Used from TDK, Memorex, Ritek G04, G05, Taiyo Yuden

DMA is Enabled in Win2k to Ultra DMA, even set it to PIO still no faster than 4x.

[RottenFoxBreath]

try dvrflash2.that should work.
also you might need to flash the kernel part as well as the firmware.
try www.rpc1.org,and use nils 1.18 hacked firmware,using dvrflash 2.

[blinky88]

I have recently purchased a Pioneer 108D (OEM) and flashed the drive
with F/W from Gradius v1.18 and the burner is working like a charm.

Goto gradius.com and download the file
"DVR-A08/108D drive into a true DVR-A08DX/108DX".
(support DVD-R @ 16x max and DVD-RW @ 4x max)
Another benefit of this F/W is automatic bookmark for +R blanks, output is DVD ROM.

After unzipping the files (3) place them in the Folder bearing your
name in the Documents and Settings Folder.

IMPORTANT Note:
Make sure the "Intel Application Accelerator" is not installed.

Goto command prompt and "TYPE" the following command
(Note: you cannot copy and paste into Command Prompt)

C:\Documents and Settings\blinky\>dvrflash -vf X: R8150008.110 R8150108.118

NOTE: In that command statement "X" represents your burner DRIVE letter
..eg.. D or E etc. and "blinky" represents the name that appears after
"Documents and Settings" when opening Command Prompt.

[leebo]

blinky88, you keep posting the same response to many different topics. But the link you keep posting is wrong.