Hi, I tried unsuccessfully to upgrade FW of my LiteON LTR 0841 using pflash (in a dos box under win98) and FW LS38.bin (LTR 12101B drive's FW) retrieved on alexnoe’s site and now the drive is dead. My machine has a Soyo 6VBA133 MB with Celeron 300A and 128Mb ram. I then got the original FW MS8E.bin and tried to recover under a real Dos mode booting from floppy and using the jumper trick (the two lowest pin right the power plug shorted: isn'it?) . No history : the response from pflash sounds like " trying to recover the drive by soft reset" 4 o 5 times and then "ATAPI command unsuccessful". Some hope left ? in this case could some guru explain to me the detailed steps to recover? Thanks in advance.

does ur motherboard bios detect it... ?
Assuming it does not...
Here it goes....

...... this works only if u have another cd/dvd rom drive...MTKFLASH 1.8
1:Find a win98/ms dos Boot disk/cd
2:Open your cabinet
3. figure out your Primary & secondary masters & slaves.
4.Now connect other cd/dvd to secondary slave IDE cable & disconnect the writer but keep power cables intact..
5.Boot the computer.. Bios will detect cd/dvd rom as secondary slave, save the settings and reboot with the Boot disk to dos mode.
6. NOW FOLLOW CAREFULLY
7.insulate ur self (simply sit on a chair , keep ur self off the ground)
8.Remove the IDE cable from the cd/dvd drive and attach it to the writer..DO NOT POWER OFF THE SYSTEM....
9. Run mtkflash1.8 from C: drive(HARDDISK ONLY)
10.somethin like....C:\mtkflash X w firmware.hex
11. X is 4, since it is secondary slave
12. Wallaaaa.... mtkflash flashes ur drive..
13.Its fully operational Now.
14.Simply reboot

Unfortunately, mtkflash doesn't work with this drive...

in fact I knew I should use pflash with my drive and I wondered if the procedure would work anycase. However thanks a lot pankaj.

Luc