Help Obtaining Firmware

[Azrael-Kun]

Hi a while ago i updated my Optorite DVD RW DD0405 to firmware 160E. I didnt really have a problem with it but now i wish to change it back to 150E. Now my problem is that no matter what site i go to inorder to download it they all link back to the main site www.optorite.com yet this site no longer exists, its now one of those stupid search sites. Is there any site that hosts its own files [however the few ive tried said file not found] or another way i can change it back to 150E.

These are the site ive tried
http://www.opendrivers.com/
http://www.free-driver-download.com/
http://myfreewares.com/
http://www.driverstock.info/
http://forum.rpc1.org/index.php

Thanks

[lumis]

http://tdb.rpc1.org/

http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_file.php?site=tdb1&file=0405150E.ZIP

[Scorpion King]

Looks like their website www.optorite.com is for sale. Click on 'firmware'.

[Azrael-Kun]

Clicking on firmware just brings up sponsered search results...
Also the Dangerous Brothers link [http://tdb.rpc1.org/] is a region free firmware would it still work exactly the same as the normal firmware?

[OneSickPup]

Also the Dangerous Brothers link [http://tdb.rpc1.org/] is a region free firmware would it still work exactly the same as the normal firmware?

It's the 150E firmware that has been patched for a specific reason, in this case region-free. As far as burning strategies. etc - it should be identical.

[Azrael-Kun]

I used that file and it works great thanks...however i still think its stupid that they got rid of their website.

[TBoneit]

They didn't get rid of their other website. You are confusing a independant website with a manufacturer run website, two different things.

The fact that the makers website is for sale ought to tell you something, that being that they are gone, dead, ten toes up, belly up, pushing up daisies, finito, kaputt, now in the spirit world and so on.

or that you've been hijacked, but being that everywhere else is working, the likely surmise is that they have gone out of business either closing up shop or being bought by some other maker. Making DVD burners is a low margin business these days. When they sold for $400 everybody form maker to retail seller could make decent money on their sale. Back when a cheap computer was $2000 the store could make several hundred dollars margin, now that a cheap computer is $300 guess what they make? Peanuts per sale.

[Scorpion King]

My first CD burner was a Sony 1x2x6 cd-r. That meant it could write at 1x or 2x and read at 6x. It was SCSI interface so I also had to buy a SCSI adapter card. The drive cost $500.00, ISA SCSI adapter card was $79.95, and a 10 pack CD-Rs was $89.95. I coastered the first 3 in a row....

circa 1996-97

Yea, things have changed a little.

Good luck.

[CrayonEater]

FYI, you could also have used the I/OMagic 150I firmware, available from their site. I have the Generic 8x DVDRW and it a rebadged DD0405. It's a phenomenal disc reader, BTW, and can read even badly-mangled discs.