Extremely slow Pioneer DVR-112D

[flatfoot]

Hi bozz2006,

I visited a friend who has a PC and we tried to flash my dead drives in DOS – to no avail.
Then we tried the Dangerous Brothers region-free flasher (in Windows) and – BOOM – the drives were back running.
Now, back on my Mac, I applied the files you provided earlier (thanks!) and that worked fine.

My only concern is that the drive (did it on only one of the two up to now) is now recognized as a "DVR-112" instead of "DVR-112D". Is that normal and does it matter at all?

I'll try the 1.28 update now...

EDIT: OK, the drive didn't like the 1.28 firmware file; tried it along with the *.115 kernel file you posted earlier. This made the flashing process abort halfway through (firmware "0000"). Luckily I could flash it back to 1.24.
I'd be glad if someone could tell me how I can get the drive to firmware-version 1.28, but it's not that important to me.

 

[Zokim]

just buy a samsung, I have both the pioneer and samsung. The samsung is much quieter and faster. You can get it for a mere $30.

 

[bozz2006]

sorry, I don't know if i can provide much further assistance. you would have good luck to ask at the dvrflash forums, I'm sure. and yes, it is normal for it to show up as "112" instead of "112D".

 

[j2048b]

just buy a samsung, I have both the pioneer and samsung. The samsung is much quieter and faster. You can get it for a mere $30.

which samsung and where to buy it?

thanks

 

[Tesselator]

My pioneer halls-ass!

PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-116L:

  Firmware Revision:	1.06
  Interconnect:	ATAPI
  Burn Support:	Yes (Generic Drive Support)
  Profile Path:	None
  Cache:	2000 KB
  Reads DVD:	Yes
  CD-Write:	-R, -RW
  DVD-Write:	-R, -R DL, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
  Write Strategies:	CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

AKA: DVR-A16J. Also about $30 for the OEM version.

 

[j2048b]

just buy a samsung, I have both the pioneer and samsung. The samsung is much quieter and faster. You can get it for a mere $30.

what can this be upgraded to? version ext...?

i just purchased a samsung from new egg!