Pioneer 106 Flashing Problem

[Sergio Fernandes]

Everytime I try to flash my Pioneer 106 with the firmware from the Pioneer web site it says that it cannot find the target drive, does anyone know what the heck is going on?

[bnbhoha]

I just updated my 106d on Monday w/ Pioneer's latest firmware version 1.08 The thing is, if you already have a "hacked" firmware on your drive the Pioneer's firmware flasher will not recognize it. You will have to use another flasher. I believe it was called dvdflash or something. I spent a good half hour learning how to flash the drive and stuff. For some reason it wasn't clear on many forums including the firmware page on how to do it, they assumed it was common sense.

I will post links and instructions when I get home from work. It worked flawlessly. For some reason, I made two coasters w/ the rcp version 1.07 firmware. No more hacks for me. The whole reason I did it was because the drive would not recogonize a +R disc after the burn; it still doesn't with the new firmware but atleast it's not making coasters.

[bnbhoha]

Here ya go. I cut and pasted this from another site. I can't remember where I got it:

1 Download DVRFlash v2.0

2 Download the firmware.

3 Put DVRFlash.exe and R8100108.106 directly onto the root of your C: drive.

4 Go to Start->Run and type in "cmd"

5 Type "cd c:\" at the command line to change your working directory to the root of the C drive.

6 Type "DVRflash X: R8100108.106" changing X to the drive letter assigned to your DVR-108 and hit enter.

7 Follow the on-screen instructions.

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[tonyburns]

thanks bnbhoha your a lifesaver
you da man