How to flash Sony175a1 to some liteon fw? - CDROM-Guide forums

Joeik · #1 Apr 21, 2002, 10:23 AM

Hello if somebody can give advice how to flash
some Lite-on fw (24102b) to my sony 175a1?
i cannot just flash it with liteon fw because the
drive is not looking like Liteon even it really is
liteon 24102b my firmware is 5YS2.
thanks lot for any advice.

Hoss · #2 Apr 22, 2002, 07:55 PM

To my knowledge Sony still makes all its own drives....perhaps they are using Lite-Ons these dayz, but even so you can't simply flash a drive with their firmware. Nor is it advisable to do so!
There are sometimes tricks or hacked firmware when this can be done, but not something to really try on your own. I did look at a couple sites and saw no info for doing so with this drive.

Joeik · #3 Apr 23, 2002, 10:19 AM

i did it my sony 175a1 is now liteon 24102b and it seems that all is ok.

ray-comp · #4 Apr 23, 2002, 11:34 AM

How did you manage to do that ?
Ray

Joeik · #5 Apr 25, 2002, 04:17 AM

I did it but the drive was not burning, maybe it because i was not using 24102b binary but some exe file which rewrited my fw. but no matter i put the drive back for another to the store 175e because of led flashing error. But i'm sure that sony 175a1 is liteon because of tested characteristics nad design of back part.

Hoss · #6 Apr 25, 2002, 08:28 AM

As I said above, I have my doubts whether this is true, and as you found out flashing a drive incorrectly will trash it!
While its possible Sony might be using a few parts from LiteOn, I'll bet they still write their own firmware for it.