GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us
that Karr Wang, author of Kprobe, an utility to check the quality of CD/DVD
media recorded by Lite-On drives, has released a new
tool. LtnFlash 1.1.0 allows you to easily flash and backup the firmware of
Lite-On drives. The tool only doesn't work with Lite-On CD-ROM drives and the
LTD-163 DVD-ROM. The tool can also update the boot code, what this means is
explained here:
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 Thanks
to dhc014:
All Lite-ON drives except the LTD-163 and their
CD-ROM drives have a certain amount of the flash ROM set aside for the
Boot Code. For the recent 6S and 7S drives (as well as most others) the
whole flash chip holds 512KB. Of that size 16KB is set aside and is
usually not flashed by the Lite-ON Windows Flashers. If something goes
wrong while flashing, the Boot Code area maintains the minimum functions
of the drive so that it can still be detected by BIOS and Windows and you
can flash again to recover it. If you choose to flash the Boot Code area
and something goes wrong, then the drive may not be detected and you'll
need to use mtkflash in DOS which can reflash the entire ROM including the
Boot Code to recover the drive. Sometimes the Boot Code does need to be
updated and if that's the case, then Lite-ON will set the Windows Updater
to flash the Boot Code.
Basically, not flashing the Boot Code is a
fail-safe so that a drive can be recovered more easily if something goes
wrong.
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The software contains also DVD Region Tools such as
enabling/disabling the region counter and resetting the number of changes left.
More information about this tool and downloads can be found in our LtnFlash 1.1.0 forum thread.
Source: Club CD Freaks
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No, it works on the LTD-163D AFAIK. I don't have one to test it though.
