LG CD-RW firmware upgrade

[GeorgeMU]

Has anyone with a LG GCE-8160B CD-RW updated their firmware to 2.01 yet?
If so what are the advantages?

 

[FlipSide]

I will be doing so in the weekend. I need to open the comp to make it master and the only drive in the secondary channel as per instructions. The only reason I am doing so is to make it Win XP compliant. I am planning to install Win XP on my comp this weekend.

 

[GeorgeMU]

I just sent an inquiry to http://us.lgservice.com/bin/HPI/HpiHomeMain.exe and will post their answer ASAP.

 

[GeorgeMU]

Hey FlipSide,

Did you do the firmware upgrade yet?
If so any tips?

 

[GeorgeMU]

Check this out:
Flash help

 

[GeorgeMU]

The reply from LG Electronics:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your e-mail.
Here is the answer for your inquiry.
If you ever need more information,
please do not hesitate to contact us again.

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* Customer's Inquiry :

You have posted a firmware upgrade ver 2.01.
My current firmware is ver. 1.02.
What are the changes in this upgrade?
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* Ask in return. :

General enhancements in disc access and writing to certain brands of media. No exact details regarding which brands. Bill

 

[FlipSide]

sorry did not have time last weekend. The wife wanted to do some xmas shopping. I am currently trying to figure out how to backup 93 GIGS of data to do a clean install of WinXP. From the looks of it, I will not be able to upgrade until after the holidays. I will try to upgrade the firmware though.. I will let you know how it goes.

 

[knutp]

where is the firmware? can't find it on the www.lge.com page.

 

[FlipSide]

knutp, download here

I just upgraded to firmware 2.01. Looks like everything is OK. I tested a normal burn. I will test overburn tomorrow. It's getting late.

 

[FlipSide]

Finally found time to install XP. Worked great with the drive and overburn did work. My buddy's CDRW just died and asked me to get him the same drive I have. Picked up an OEM one and noticed that the shipping bios was 2.01. And I already made a boot disk and the bios flasher for him since I knew he has Windows XP the night before. Well, I gues I have another spare disk.

For flashing just follow the instructions, however with the flasher I got I had to put this parameters with the flash command, " /3 /m" to make it work. "/3" to identify secondary IDE as master. I really do not know what the "/m" was for, but it said so when I used the parameter "/?" on the flash utility. This is how I got it to flash. Just to be on the safe side, I made sure that it was the only drive on the secondary IDE and is set as master. I did not want it to flash the wrong drive.