Trouble upgrading the firmware + which replacement to buy?

[Will Hay]

I have a Pioneer 105 dvd-rom drive which is very slow to rip and been trouble to set to region free.
I'm gonna' replace it so can anyone recommend a drive in the UK which is quick to rip and easy to set to region free?
I hear lite-on are great (my cdr burner is lite-on), anyone confirm this?
Thanks,
Will

[crazeplaya]

Lite-On are indeed great. I don't think there is a faster drive for ripping DVDs out there (correct me if I am wrong). They are also very cheap, around £32 from www.dabs.com so you can't go wrong

[MackemX]

Liteon are good as mine gets upto 8-9X

[Will Hay]

Thanks guys.
So it would fair to say any lite-on, whatever the model, yes?
Are these easy to region free?
Will

[MackemX]

I have 163 I think but newer ones are out now

http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php

http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?category=1&manufactor=17

[SaSi]

I have a Pioneer 116 and have also tried a 119 (new model) at a friend. I have flashed the f/w on the 116 and made it region free.

The 116 rips at an average of 8.5x most of the DVD. A few only go as fast as 7x average. All figures with DVDDecrypter and file mode.

The 119 is more or less the same (only did 2-3 rips with that). I don't know if a RPC patch is available for that, but even if it doesn't there will be very soon.

[Will Hay]

I've just flased the 105s - error message.
I created a boot disk downloaded from http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php and stored the unzipped firmware (105f_122) on my ntfs partition.
For some reason my primary hdd wasn't shown via the boot disk.
I got as far as the end with a success message but the following error was above that:
FILE CREATION ERROR
<-[2J
NOW RUNNING MS-DOS VER 8.00
BUFFER ALLOCATE ERROR
Anyone know what I did wrong?
Will

[Coopervid]

You have to put the fw files also on the floppy and just run the upgrade.bat.

A DOS disk cannot access files on an NTFS file system (your harddisk).

For the DVD-ROM: I have an EPO 8216 that is not region protected right out of the box! Rips in DVDDecrypter show 9.3x average / 12.3 max speed.

Go in the UK's Yahoo and look locally for +Epo +DVD and you should be able to find some sources for purchasing one.

[Will Hay]

You have to put the fw files also on the floppy and just run the upgrade.bat.

A DOS disk cannot access files on an NTFS file system (your harddisk).

I see.
So by adding the firware to the boot disk and running from there (it's a cd - I'm having a problem with my floppy drive) I'll solve the problem.
Okay, thanks.
I'll obviously have to run from a cdrom drive other than the one I flash, yes?
Will

[Coopervid]

Correct!

And no disc at all in the Pionieer burner when flashing. It will fail to flash if you have a disc in it.

[Will Hay]

Just tried it
I ran the boot disk in my dvd drive (G) and the firmware in my cdrw (H).
I ran the following command at the H:\ prompt:
CD H:\105F_122 (105F_122 being the unzipped file containing the firware on the cd) and then 'AUTOEXEC'.
Seemed to run through fine, ie do you want to continue' etc. but then same error message as before
Anyone any ideas?
Thanks,
Will

[cugglemonster]

If you want to ask a question please start a new topic

-tgpo

[Coopervid]

Sorry - but you seem to be very unexperienced with the "dark side" OS

Also, you should have read the readme.txt provided with the zipped files.

You have to type UP105 which is the batch file for the fw update when in the fw directory.

[Will Hay]

Sorry - but you seem to be very unexperienced with the "dark side" OS

Yes, I am.

Also, you should have read the readme.txt provided with the zipped files.

I did, as well as printing the full instructions from the source site of the firmware....

You have to type UP105 which is the batch file for the fw update when in the fw directory.

Erm, I don't think so.
Extract of instructions for this firmware update http://www.geocities.com/gibler666/index.html
...."You will be running the AUTOEXEC.BAT script and NOT the upg5a.exe program directly".

[Will Hay]

...I have an EPO 8216 that is not region protected right out of the box! Rips in DVDDecrypter show 9.3x average / 12.3 max speed. Go in the UK's Yahoo and look locally for +Epo +DVD and you should be able to find some sources for purchasing one.

I'll check it out, thanks.
W.

[Will Hay]

This is the batch file 'AUTOEXEC'

@Echo off
Cls
Type Readme.txt
Echo ÿ
Echo Press Ctrl-Break if you want to EXIT, or any key to CONTINUE!!!
Pause >Nul
Echo ÿ
Echo Last chance to EXIT (Ctrl-Break), or press any key if you are READY!!!
Pause >Nul
call upg5a.exe /2 105F_122.HEX
Echo ÿ
Echo ÿ
Echo *** Firmware upgrade sequence Done! ***
Echo ÿ
Echo Remove this Boot Disk, and restart your PC !
Echo --------------------------------------------

The files contained in the batch file are:
105F_122.hex
AUTOEXEC (batch file)
UPG5A.exe

[spooki]

I have a pioneer dvd-105 and it rips up to about 12x with an average of around 7x so it shouldn't be the drive,

Are you sure you have aspi drivers installed and DMA switched on ?.

[Will Hay]

I have a pioneer dvd-105 and it rips up to about 12x with an average of around 7x so it shouldn't be the drive,

Are you sure you have aspi drivers installed and DMA switched on ?.

I rip at a maximum of x2/x2.5
I have DMA turned on but how do I determine if the aspi drivers are installed - these mean nothing to me
Thanks,
Will

[spooki]

download http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/SupportUtils/forceaspi17.rar

extract the files and run instapi.bat and it will install the aspi drivers, without these a lot of people report slow ripping speeds.

you can also use

http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/SupportUtils/aspichk.rar

this checks which aspi drivers you have installed.

[Will Hay]

I keep getting this page when I try the links:
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/leech.htm
Will

[spooki]

If you have a firewall installed you will probably have to disable it when you click on the link otherwise you get the anti leech thing.

if you still have problems go to www.doom9.org select downloads and then i think it's under support utils

[Will Hay]

If you have a firewall installed you will probably have to disable it when you click on the link otherwise you get the anti leech thing.

Yeah, tried that still got it!
Very strange!

if you still have problems go to www.doom9.org select downloads and then i think it's under support utils

Yep, got it, many thanks
Will

[Will Hay]

aspi wasn't installed correctly.
Just downloaded and run, will test a rip now and report back in the morning!
Thanks again,
Will

[Will Hay]

aspi wasn't installed correctly.
Just downloaded and run, will test a rip now and report back in the morning!
Thanks again,
Will

Ripping MIB at x 1.8 average
Still, if I can region-free I'll be a happy man!
Will

[spooki]

Hope it works as the 105 is a really good and quick ripping drive

[Will Hay]

Hope it works as the 105 is a really good and quick ripping drive

Got it working!!!!
Now region free and ripping at x7 as I type.
Thanks for your help,
Will

[marvel2020]

Silky31 checkout the following link...

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=147420&highlight=


This is a post that i replied on about the liteon DVD Rom drives, if you scroll down abit, you will see some ripping speed tests that i done using my Lite-On 163D DVD Rom Drive.

[Will Hay]

Silky31 checkout the following link...

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=147420&highlight=


This is a post that i replied on about the liteon DVD Rom drives, if you scroll down abit, you will see some ripping speed tests that i done using my Lite-On 163D DVD Rom Drive.

Thanks man, appreciate that.
I'll check it out.
Will