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dodecahedron wrote:is it possible to flash the hacked J004 firmware "over" the current one (just to be on the safe side)? is it recommended/not recommended?
Han wrote:dodecahedron wrote:is it possible to flash the hacked J004 firmware "over" the current one (just to be on the safe side)? is it recommended/not recommended?
It's possible, but not recommended. You won't gain anything by reflashing the drive...
Han wrote:It's strange though that my Toshiba shows no DVD Region Tab in Device Manager. Or if I put it the other way, it's strange that yours shows DVD Region Tab.
Han wrote:It's strange though that my Toshiba shows no DVD Region Tab in Device Manager. Or if I put it the other way, it's strange that yours shows DVD Region Tab.
dhc014 wrote:I'm pretty sure that the firmwares are checksummed, and if the checksum is not correct, you can't flash the drive. I don't think very many people know the checksum algorithm
dodecahedron wrote:Han wrote:dodecahedron wrote:is it possible to flash the hacked J004 firmware "over" the current one (just to be on the safe side)? is it recommended/not recommended?
It's possible, but not recommended. You won't gain anything by reflashing the drive...
why do you say it's not recommended (except for the usual warnings about flashing: power loss = dead drive)?
dodecahedron wrote:Han wrote:It's strange though that my Toshiba shows no DVD Region Tab in Device Manager. Or if I put it the other way, it's strange that yours shows DVD Region Tab.
one more reason to be suspicious... are you running WinXP?
dodecahedron wrote:i want to understand this better.
in the DVD Region tab it says: Current Region: Not selected.
possibly this is because i haven't yet put a DVD disc in the drive?
Han wrote:Well, Hijacker flashed 1502 too many times (around 30x). The flash chip simply died and the drive was unusable after that.
Han wrote:dodecahedron wrote:Han wrote:It's strange though that my Toshiba shows no DVD Region Tab in Device Manager. Or if I put it the other way, it's strange that yours shows DVD Region Tab.
one more reason to be suspicious... are you running WinXP?
I'm running Windows 2000, but I have a WinXP for testing purposes. In both systems there's no DVD Region Tab for Toshiba. When I put it into operation, I set region 2 by playing back a DVD movie. Then I flashed it with J004 firmware. Drive was placed to Secondary Master as the only drive in chain.dodecahedron wrote:i want to understand this better.
in the DVD Region tab it says: Current Region: Not selected.
possibly this is because i haven't yet put a DVD disc in the drive?
No, that means just what it says - your drive is either a region free one (RPC1) or the region hasn't been applied yet. The second is rather impossible, since you have J004 firmware in operation. BUT, a "hacked Toshiba" only works properly if the region was set on the original 1004 firmware first!
I wouldn't be worried too much. Just play a movie to see if it runs as supposed...
dodecahedron wrote:well, i haven't set a region yet.
is it possible that this "strange phenomenon" (the DVD Region tab) is because a zone wasn't selected prior to flashing the J004 firmware? like i said the vendor did it and i'm not sure he did it right.
dodecahedron wrote:does the drive have to be alone on the IDE channel? right now my Toshiba is secondary SLAVE ( Boone) with a Plextor burner as master. should i disconnect the Plextor for flashing the firmware?
dodecahedron wrote:also, do you know what dave meant in this post of his about "checksumming" the firmware (see my question above)?
Han wrote:Simply said, the flash program checks the firmware "bit by bit" whether it's the right one and error free.
Han wrote:On J004 firmware you actually can't set the region, because it's a RPC1 firmware. It's possible that the vendor "misflashed" the drive, but it's easy to check this: play a movie. If it doesn't run as supposed, even with DVD Genie or DVD Region Killer running in the background, then the region wasn't applied before flashing...
dodecahedron wrote:yeah, but i can select the region in the DVD Region tab! that's what i had meant.
dodecahedron wrote:what are DVD Genie and Region Killer? do i need them to play DVDs even though my drive is RPC I ? i thought once the drive is RPC I that's it i can play DVDs from all Zones!
if i do need them where do i get them?
dodecahedron wrote:1. (question: do i need to play a DVD to "select" a zone first, like you said i should before flashing the hacked firmware? i think not, it's RPC I!)
dodecahedron wrote:(hopefully, once i do this i won't have the DVD Region tab anymore).
dodecahedron wrote:as for the DVD Genie / Region Killer - if i understood correctly, it's movie dependent, and if i try to play a movie through PowerDVD or WinDVD or whatever, it will refuse to play? so then i run one of these programs and that enables the playing of the movie?
dodecahedron wrote:does this effect ripping too? if i just want to rip the movie to the hard drive, do i still need these proggies?
dhc014 wrote:I still really don't know why you're going to flash the drive...
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