pioneer 106 d update which version????

[kathy108]

I have a Pionneer 106D drive in my my Mac 2gig G5 running os 10.3 and having read the reviews so im gonna give the update a go.

But when i go to the french download page for the updater there are two versions.

Which updater do i use the 107 or the 108??

kind regards

kathy

[blinky88]

1.08 is the latest F/W. I used it for close to 12 months without any problems so long as you feed it DVD-R blanks.

[Prot]

Do you mean you've encountered problems if you DON'T use DVD-R blanks? I have 1.07 and haven't had any problems burning all 4 formats, so why should I update.

[kathy108]

mmm bit confused here. do i use the 107 first?? then the 108?? are you saying that you can only put blank dvd's in the drive and not pre-recorded ie 'films'.

kathy

[blinky88]

Kathy,

Update your F/W to v1.08. I wasn't able to burn S/L DVD+R, only S/L DVD-R and I didn't have any problems during the time I owned that burner. I haven't ever used rewritable blanks as I did not have a use for them.

Of course it will read pre-recorded DVD's.

[kathy108]

one more little quiery - can you still record and play to CD's? (silly questio i know)

kathy

[blinky88]

Sorry Kathy, never tried to burn a CD as I have a CD burner installed, however. if I had to guess I would say - Yes.

[kathy108]

ive unzipped the 108 flasher upgrade but it only has the PC installers no mac osx???

am i being a dumb blonde gentlemen???

kathy

[RottenFoxBreath]

for macOS,here is the flash utility

http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=30233

read the posts there,youll find out how to use it,any questions about it all the answers are there.

and heres the best firmware,

http://gradius.rpc1.org/

and scroll down to the A06/106 section and download 1.08 firmware.

its easier than you think.

[kathy108]

Ok i AM a dumb blonde your gonna have to nurse me throught this.

Ok i down loaded both version.. again the DVR-106D v1.08 only gives me an exe. file which is pc. the DVRFlash.2 version has in it a readme file and a DVRflash icon i open that and the following comes up:

Last login: Mon Apr 18 13:14:42 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
/Users/kathy/Desktop/DVRFlash_2.0/DVRFlash; exit
Kathys-Computer:~ kathy$ /Users/kathy/Desktop/DVRFlash_2.0/DVRFlash; exit

DVRFlash v2.0 : Pioneer DVR firmware flasher
by Agent Smith et al., July 2004

Commandline:
/Users/kathy/Desktop/DVRFlash_2.0/DVRFlash

Device parameter was not given, detecting all DVR drives:

Device : A:
Vendor : PIONEER
Model : DVD-RW DVR-106D
Revision : A606

Now run DVRFlash again, from the command prompt, using
one of the device(s) listed above as first parameter

Press the Return key to exit



Im lost from here i dont know what its saying or what im suppose to do???

kathy

[kathy108]

Ok I’ve done it, I’ve flashed my Pioneeer 106D DVD drive. It took a bit of doing though cos no matter what I downloaded there was no OS X icon in any of the folders so this is what I did after hours of torment.

1 - I downloaded the FlashIt Kit for OS X from:

http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=30233

2 –I downloaded the OS X Pioneer DVR 106D v 1.08 from the French site:

http://www.macetvideo.com/flashpioneerosx/flashpioneerosx.html

I then placed the firmware (R6100106.108) from (2) into (1) then double clicked the ‘Flashit.command’ icon and it was done in 30 seconds AND IT WORKS.

So give the girl a medal I got there in the end.

Thanks for all your help and advice and I hope my method helps someone along the way.

Kind regards

Kathy