hello!

i have a philips 8x 4x 32x cdrws and have killed it at my attempt to update the firmware under windows 2000....

philips only releases their their roms as a .cvt file. but i need a bin file, so i can flash this plcc flashrom in my programmer....


alternatively:
luckily my pal has the same drive.
does anyone have a tool to _read_ out the firmware of a working philips cdrw cdd4801 / pcrw4801 / pcrw 804k?
mktflash didn't werk.


any clues/tools/bins are very much appreciated.


thx in advance !
cheech


ps: i emailed philips.nl, but i'm not holdin' my breath. -_-;

it's ok.

after actually looking into a .cvt file, i discovered it _is_ the ROM image with
- a 36byte header with "philips <yadda yadda> flash file", and
- a 4 byte suffix (presumeably a chksum).

in some cases it's even 2x the image...

thx anyhow :-)

ciao
cheech

(in reply to cheech)

is it possible for you to list where I can download the Newest Firmware for the Philips PCRW804???

I have tried every link that pointed to www.pcstuff.philips.com/downloads/products/*.*

but i get an error saying that does not exist anymore...

thanks.
ww

(in reply to cheech)

Here is a working link

http://home.tiscalinet.be/stefsom/stefsom/FlashTool%203.1_004%20setup.exe
(direct link)

(in reply to cheech)

stefsom thankx very much!

(in reply to cheech)