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FLASHFIX: fix Liteon CDRW/DVD firmware to flash ANY drive!

Postby dimitri on Sun Dec 15, 2002 10:04 am

The firmware update utility of Liteon/Jlms drives will sometime refuse to flash the drive.
E.g: It will not allow to "downgrade" the firmware or to reflash with the same firmware
version and it will refuse most OEM drives.

The Flashfix utility will patch many Liteon/Jlms Windows based firmware utilities
so as to allow them to flash ANY drive.
It does not change the firmware itself, it disables the checking function of the flasher.

We know it works with all Ltd-165/166 firmwares and with most Liteon CDRW firmwares too!!
As of now it cannot patch the ltd122/163 dvd range.

How to know for sure? If you need such a fix, just try it!

It is very simple and quick to run but it's up to you not to do anything stupid with it!
Just make 100% sure the firmware you patch is compatible with your drive, and when you run
the actual flash be absolutely sure to select the right drive.

WARNING: The firmware you fix will "agree" to flash ANY drive on your system!
If you select a wrong drive from the drop-down menu it might damage that drive!

Acknowledgement:
Many many thanks to Dale who wrote Flashfix and kindly made it available for all to use!

Get it at my site and please report any success or failure,

Cheers, and have fun! 8)
All the best, dimitri (a.k.a digi, mango)
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Postby cfitz on Sun Dec 15, 2002 2:47 pm

Do I understand correctly, that this is an easier-to-use alternative to extracting the .bin from a firmware upgrade executable and using mtkflash to burn that .bin?

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Postby dhc014 on Sun Dec 15, 2002 2:57 pm

This program will patch a Lite-ON Windows Firmware Flasher so that It skips checking what drive you have in your system. This allows you to flash an OEM Lite-ON drive to a true Lite-ON by simply running the official Lite-ON Windows Firmware Flasher (after being patched of course).
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