Firmware (almost) TOTALLY messed up my Plextor!!!

[JaiKnight]

Hello...not too happy right now, I forgot to check the boards first about updating the firmware on my NEW Plextor 12/10/32A. From revision 1.05 to 1.07. I ran the update and as many people have found, it hung on me, I had to kill it off with a ctrl-alt-delete. After I rebooted I noticed my BIOS didn't pick it up in the auto-detect.

Now when I go into Windows98, it reads the firmware as 1.05, but it's now called (CD-Rom Drive) It also does not appear in My Computer. I tried running the 1.05 update on it, but it wouldn't detect the drive's name. I used ForceASPI (found out I was out of date).

Is there ANY way I can save this thing? Out of all these people having the update freeze on them, am I the only one that seems to have really gotten their drive screwed up??

 

[bacillus]

can only suggest you try reflashing with the 1.07 firmware without DMA enabled & with that drive only on the ide cable!
good luck.

 

[JaiKnight]

Bacillus!! THANKS! I totally forgot to uncheck the DMA box, I unchecked it, rebooted, flashed, rebooted, had to remove the device because it was still named (CD-Rom Drive), rebooted, and rebooted again to remove the hex edit stuff... (was about to try it as a last ditch attempt).
All those reboots were no easy feat either....win98 takes forever to boot up when you've got 2 NICs in, I clock my startup at 3.5min...

 

[Finality]

PPfffffffffffffft

Silly people dont use SCSI. You deserve what you get

 

[bacillus]

<< Silly people dont use SCSI. You deserve what you get >>


HMM,Finality care to explain your words of wisdom!

 

[JaiKnight]

Haha, I'd build a SCSI system if I had extra cash to throw around =)

It's strange, now that I've done all this stuff, I can't enable DMA anymore without the drive disappearing. The jumper enables UDMA right? different from DMA? (I haven't put the jumper in)

 

[bacillus]

<< The jumper enables UDMA right? different from DMA? >>


no, it's the same thing but the person who initally enlightened this forum with that tip acknowledged that it caused him problems copying data so he unjumpered his drive! you could check in bios thay the drive parameters detection is correct.