Help with ASUS DRW-0402P Firmware

[rgoulter]

I recently purchased this drive and have a couple of problems. I am a relative newbie to the DVD writer scene and I do not know how to flash the firmware on the drive. I have searched many forums but no luck. I have downloaded the flash files from ASUS but there was no instructions?

I have an .EXE file and a Firmware file.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/DVR/0402PD_107.zip

I tried running the EXE with the firmware file i.e. >flash.exe fw12345 the flash EXE runs but then sais something like “Cannot locate target” or something similar. I just tried running them from WinXP start menu, run and dragging the firmware file onto the EXE in file explorer.

How can I get this working? How do I execute the flash file.

I have Daemon Tools running which uses a virtual DVD drive to mount images from the HDD should I uninstall this before attempting to flash? Maybe its getting confused with this virtual DVD drive?

The drive is working but I noticed when I burn a DVD using Nero 6 it takes about 35mins at 4x speed? I am using Princo Media. The resulting DVD works fine but shouldn’t it take about 13-15mins?. The weird thing is Nero sais 13 mins to completion (once the DVD starts writing) then it goes past this by another 20 mins saying -20 mins (negative) upon completion.

Would upgrading the firmware fix this problem with Nero? It appears to be reading/writing the Princo DVD-R media at 2x not 4x??

Has anyone else had these problems?

I've posted on The Firmware Page a couple of days ago but still no reply

Please help.

[dhc014]

You should be able to extract both files into the same directory and then just double click the .exe from Windows.

[rgoulter]

Well thats what I thought i.e. easy. but when I run the .exe it just sais 'Available Target is not found' ?

BTW I turned off Daemon tools and uninstalled (from device manager) the DVD drive Daemon tools was using.

I might try changing the drive to another IDE port as I am using a MB with 4 IDE slots 2 of which are for raid support. This is a real long shot though.

Anyone elase have any advice?

[dodecahedron]

maybe try turning off DMA before running the update program.

[Ian]

Doesn't this update need to be run from DOS? I'm not talking a command prompt either.. real DOS.