Why wont this stupid lite-on drive flash?

[styrafoam]

Anyone got any ideas? Error saying incorrect drive detected, which does in fact seem to be the correct drive.

 

[Shagga]

Have you previously changed the firmware at some time?

 

[bacillus]

try setting the liteon as master & temporarily removing the other optical drive.

 

[Zepper]

Yes, as bacillus has suggested - to be flashed, optical drives usually must be the Master drive (not Cale Select) and sometimes the ONLY one on the channel - also DMA may need to be disabled temporarily (in the mobo BIOS). Read the directions for flashing the drive (on the LiteOn web site) VERY CAREFULLY and use a raw DOS flashing method of at all possible.
.bh.

 

[styrafoam]

I haven't changed the firmware, the drive is second hand though so don't know it's history and Lite-on doesn't have list of previous firmware revisions to compare to.

The drive that was in before this one was a Lite-on, slaved to the NEC, it flashed fine with the utility that lite-on uses Lite-on doesn't have a dos based flasher available for download, they say to contact support in the case that a flash fails and kills your drive to obtain one.

I will try flashing it with it set as single-master, thanks for the suggestions--

 

[Budman]

Why are you trying to flash it?

Are you having problems with it ?


If it ain't broke don't fix it.

 

[styrafoam]

Lite-on uses an in windows flasher utility called xflash.exe with the .bin built into it. I haven't had a problem with the drive per say, but the one that came out needed to be flashed before it was 100%, and it was a newer model. Just doing it pre-emptively.