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limaa

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March 23rd, 2006 17:00

Sony DW-Q58A DVD Drive Firmware

Anyone here have the UDS1 or UDS2 Firmware for the Sony DW-Q58A DVD Drive or can make a backup of it with mtkflash?
 
I bad flashed a Sony DW-Q58A Drive and need exactly that UDS1 Firmware version.
 
Thx in advance
PS: Please mail the file to: --removed--
 

Message Edited by limaa on 03-23-200601:26 PM

Message Edited by limaa on 04-09-200604:50 PM

Lomanx

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July 3rd, 2006 03:00

Hi all, I have a Inspiron 6000 with the Sony DW-Q58A drive and flashed it to the UYS3 firmware (previous firmware UDS1).  I backed up the original firmware with ltnfw thinking all is good.  Having using the UYS3 firmware, the drive acted superslow on reading and burning so I wanted to go back to the original firmware.  ltnfw didn't want to reflash the drive so I used MTKflash and that firmware I backed up.  Upon finishing the reflash, the drive no longer works and is undetected in BIOS.  After some reading, then I found out that the firmware I backed up is no good cuz ltnfw wasn't compatible with my drive all along.  I have tried to reflash using MTKflash but all I get is the "cannot initialize ide port" error message.  I have your copy of the "real" UDS1 firmware but I can't seem to get MTKflash to see the drive again.  Please help if you can.

Lomanx

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July 4th, 2006 05:00

Great news!!  After a lot of trial and error, I theorized that maybe the Dell Inspiron 6000 disables the Secondary Master/Slave IDE ports when it doesn't detect anything.  I couldn't put the drive in a tower pc case cuz of the PAE 50pin port being different from a 80pin IDE cable, and I didn't feel like going out and buying one.  So I borrowed my friend's laptop and found out his DVD drive was the same size and shape and mines.  I installed his drive in my laptop, booted the computer to dos with a usb drive, then switched the drive with my dead drive.  To my surprise, mtkflash detected a drive there (it freezes when scanning ports, but at least it didn't say "cannot initial IDE port").  I then typed in the mtkflash prompt "mtkflash 3 w /b /m uds1_new.bin" and it started flashing!  After flashing what appears to be 15 or so banks, the drive blinks, ejects, and WORKS!  Sorry for my long story, but I'm just overexcited as I was stuck with this drive for days.  Thank you for those who made mtkflash and saving us from buying new drives.

rvic

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November 21st, 2006 01:00

I have the same problem as limaa originally, coul anyone help me with the USD1 firmware? The previously posted links doesn't seem to work anymore. I would greatly appreciate any help...

D-Watkins

2 Posts

August 26th, 2007 15:00

yeah, same here! cd drive stopped reading cds (but reads dvds) after i got a bad disk burn
 
anyone got the firware.. and its ridiculous that a brand new xps accats up this way... i had this old school hp that never gave me any issues during years

innosatt

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October 24th, 2007 09:00

Discovery for anyone who cares
 
For anyone who would like to be able to flash the Dell UDS2 version of the Sony DW-Q58A from UDS2 to the latest Sony firmware of UYS4 you will first have to flash it with UYS2 - stock or UYS3 - stock firmware first then download the latest UYS4 firmware from Sony  Firmware
 
Note: Flash at your risk, but I was able to flash UYS2 - stock first then UYS4  Windows Firmware Updater  UYS4WIN.EXE   637  without rebooting in between with no issues. Rebooted after UYS4 flash.
 
Tags: DW-Q58A, Dell, Sony, Firmware, UDS2, UYS2, UYS3, UYS4, UYS4WIN.EXE, UYS2 - stock, UYS3 - stock, DVD+-RW
 
-innosatt 

jeffn81

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January 4th, 2008 08:00

Thanks innosatt for the firware, I had problems with playing correctly dvds, but now is ok.

Message Edited by jeffn81 on 01-04-2008 05:06 AM

GabyR

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December 12th, 2009 07:00

Discovery for anyone who cares
 
For anyone who would like to be able to flash the Dell UDS2 version of the Sony DW-Q58A from UDS2 to the latest Sony firmware of UYS4 you will first have to flash it with UYS2 - stock or UYS3 - stock firmware first then download the latest UYS4 firmware from Sony  Firmware
 
Note: Flash at your risk, but I was able to flash UYS2 - stock first then UYS4  Windows Firmware Updater  UYS4WIN.EXE   637  without rebooting in between with no issues. Rebooted after UYS4 flash.
 
Tags: DW-Q58A, Dell, Sony, Firmware, UDS2, UYS2, UYS3, UYS4, UYS4WIN.EXE, UYS2 - stock, UYS3 - stock, DVD+-RW
 
-innosatt 

 

Hi:

I have somne problems here...

I flashed my Sony DW 58a DVD drive from UDS2 to UYS2 using UYS2stock (actually I didn't have any idea of what I was doing).... The drive still works, I mean it can read and copy cds/dvds, BUT super slow!!... so I want to reflash it again to its original firmware... I have found the firmware (UDS2) in a Dell website... How do I reflash it??.. Is it "recomendable" to do this??... I dont want to have any more problems... Is there a program to "erase" the firmware update or something like that?... Please help me, I have NO idea of what I'm doing :(

 

THANK YOU guys!!!

 

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