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How to flash rebadged ASUS CRW-5224A cdrw drive?
Posted:
Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:27 pmby computation
I bought an ASUS CRW5224A cdrw drive(52x24x52x). It's firmware version is
1.20. When I tried to upgrade its firmware, the utility tells me it can't
find the device to upgrade. I guess the reason is, the burner is
recorgonized as "CRW5224A", instead "ASUS CRW5224A". That is, the part
"ASUS" is missing in the name. What I can do for this situation? Thanks.
Posted:
Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:12 pmby dhc014
Can you please post the Show Summary information for the drive from
DISCInfo? The flash tool looks extremely easy to modify
Posted:
Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:42 pmby computation
Thanks. Here they are. I'll appreciate if you can modify the flash tool.
DISCINFO VERSION : 1.5.5.9
VENDOR :
MODEL : CRW-5224A
REVISION : 1.20
LOADING MECHANISM : Tray
NUMBER VOL. LEVELS : 255
BUFFER SIZE : 2048KB
INTERFACE : ATAPI
RPC2 SCHEME : NO
ANALOG AUDIO PLAY : YES
COMPOSITE OUTPUT : NO
DIGITAL PORT-PORT1 : NO
DIGITAL PORT-PORT2 : NO
READ UPC CODE : YES
MULTISESSION READ : YES
MODE 2 FORM 1 : YES
MODE 2 FORM 2 : YES
READ ISRC CODE : YES
READ BAD CODE : NO
BUFFER UNDER-RUN : YES
MT. RAINIER : NO
CAN READ CDR : YES
CAN READ CDRW : YES
CAN READ CDRM2 : YES
CAN WRITE CDR : YES
CAN WRITE CDRW : YES
CAN TEST WRITE : YES
CAN READ DVD-ROM : NO
CAN READ DVD-R : NO
CAN READ DVD-RW : NO
CAN READ DVD-RAM : NO
CAN READ DVD+R : NO
CAN READ DVD+RW : NO
CAN WRITE DVD-R : NO
CAN WRITE DVD-RW : NO
CAN WRITE DVD-RAM : NO
CAN WRITE DVD+R : NO
CAN WRITE DVD+RW : NO
MAX CDR READ SPEED : 52
MAX CDR WRITE SPEED: 52
Posted:
Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:47 pmby dhc014
Give 'er a try: [Link Removed]
Posted:
Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:36 pmby computation
Thanks for your help, dhc014. It's still the same situation though: can't find the device to upgrade.
Posted:
Tue Jul 13, 2004 12:06 amby dhc014
Hmm, looks like it will require a better patcher than I. Sorry.
Posted:
Tue Jul 13, 2004 2:31 amby dhc014
You can give this one a try:
http://codeguys.rpc1.org/temp/CRW5224A_140_forOEM.rar
Thanks fo code65536 for this one! We really don't know if these will work cause we cannot test them ourselves.
Posted:
Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:33 pmby computation
Still doesn't work. Thanks for your patience and help. But this one makes a big improvement. No warning msg. It entered the main window.
The problem is, under the "select source" slide menu, there is no drive (or, empty). So I can't select the drive to flash.
Maybe just one more small step. BTW can you make it to flash the drive to a regular "ASUS CRW-5224A" model # so I can apply later ASUS updates? Anyway thanks again. Thanks code65536 also.
Posted:
Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:48 pmby computation
Can people help update the firmware further? Thanks.
Posted:
Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:35 pmby Ian
Do you have the drive attached to an addon IDE controller or something? What OS? If these updates require DOS, are you flashing from true DOS and not just a command prompt? Have you tried flashing from another computer?
Posted:
Fri Jul 23, 2004 4:22 pmby computation
Thanks. Yes I tried to flash from other computers. The flash utility is for windows.