Buslink (AOPEN) CDRW Firmware Problem

[Yossarian451]

I got the Buslink 52-24-52 drive when it went on sale and I figured I ought to upgrade the firmware since it was having problems burning. I looked all over checking the aopen site and I thought I had verified that it was the right drive which Aopen listed as their 52-24-52 drive. So i got their firmware and tried to upgrade it, well, no I have a dud I think.

Now here is my real question, what are my options? The product#91.3ED37.025 S/N:25020728JE, I havew another drive just like it, so if upgrading the firmware is not an option then would I be able to get the old firmware off of the other drive, which is the same? Unforetunately buslink doeesn't provide any firmware or real support.

EDIT: A reboot and the orginal firmware is still on, good thing it didn't flash, but is there anyway to upgrade??

 

[vailr]

If you tried to flash the firmware, and failed, in Windows, then try flashing in pure DOS mode.
Cendyne has a DOS mode firmware flasher on the bottom of this page: Text which is for their AOpen 48/12/50 CDRW. The DOS mode flasher worked for my 48/12/50, whereas the Windows version flasher failed.
So try the DOS mode flash utility, combined with the correct *.bin file for your drive.
Caution: Remove any disc from drive before flashing.

 

[Yossarian451]

Will that work with the 1.06 firmware, since it has 1.o4? And the other thing is that the flashing utility said it had a different number or something, not at the computer at the moment.

 

[Yossarian451]

How do you run the DOS program, I edited the bin txt to have the right firmware name, but just gives me errors.

 

[Yossarian451]

The erro meassage for the aopen software is:
" Cannot update for different Type Code.

*** NG ** NG ** NG ***

Make sure Selected Source File."

 

[Yossarian451]

Ok I still have no luck, does anyone have any clue about it??