dw-18a??? sony has no support

[awilliams64]

does anyone have any info on this drive??? is there any good firmware updates for this drive??thanks..

[code65536]

DW-U18A is a rebadged LiteOn 812S.
DW-D18A is a rebadged LiteOn 832S.

More info can be found here:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=44

If your current firmware version begins with...
* "UFS" - no updates available
* "UYS" - recommend crossflashing to VY08 (see http://codeguys.rpc1.org/oc.html )
* "VFS" - no updates available
* "VYS" - recommend flashing to VY08 (see http://codeguys.rpc1.org/firmwares.html )
* something else - PM me.

[awilliams64]

i found your site the other night and i read about it on cd freaks, i flashed it w/ the cg3e firmware and now it is recognized as a 832s liteon. I hope i did it right i just downloaded unzipped and double clicked on the patch and it seemed to work. i wrote a disc w/ it and it seemed to write fine so all is well i hope