LG GDR-8161B Auto Reset Firmware
An Auto Reset firmware is an RPC2 firmware where the counters and region
selection are stored in RAM and not committed to flash. Every time you
power up your system or reboot, the counters and region will reset so that
no region is selected and you have 5 user changes. Your player software or
operating system will prompt you to select a region whenever a disc from
a different region is inserted. If you use discs from multiple regions
this should not come as a surprise, but if you always use discs from the
same region you will see it every time you restart the drive. It resets
itself, if you don't understand this then you probably don't need to use
this firmware.
In all other respects the drive will function and report as normal.
There is a BETA RPC1 firmware for those who absolutely have to have one.
All these OEM firmwares have been tested on a singular drive, other
users have tested them on their own OEM drives.
F FUJITSU T042 3-Sep-2002
U 0102 15-Mar-2003
D HP/COMPAQ 0046 9-Jul-2003
We suggest you use the firmware that matches what you have now.
Firmware from a different OEM appears to work, but don't come complaining
if it doesn't.
Flashing this firmware requires some risk on your part. If you are not
comfortable with this please do not proceed. We have tested them, but
cannot guarantee they will work or flash correctly in any environment
out of our control.
The update requires a boot to Real DOS, and that you have ~500K memory free,
so DOS will need to load high, and don't load any drivers. Booting a DOS
hard drive is perfectly good. If you do not have a floppy drive, or other
means of booting DOS, you should consider making a Boot CD and copying the
program and flash image to a RAM drive before flashing. We would do this
for you, but we are lazy.
The command line to use depends on your system, thus
flashup xxxxauto.dld 0 /C /O (Primary Master)
flashup xxxxauto.dld 1 /C /O (Primary Slave)
flashup xxxxauto.dld 2 /C /O (Secondary Master)
flashup xxxxauto.dld 3 /C /O (Secondary Slave)
Vlad & Igor, The Dangerous Brothers.
22-Aug-2003
