warning: BTC1108 B230 firmware kills drive - Club CDFreaks

lordsmurf · 10-02-2005

Title says it all.
FW update software was fine, then drive began flashing on the LED.
Started to make funny noises too.

Reboot (Start -> Shutdown -> Restart) and computer came back, drive still flashing.

Hard reboot (Start -> Shutdown -> Shutdown) and the power back on again. Computer refuses to boot with drive connected.

Tried drive on another system. Will not be seen on the system where it would boot.

There is no way to fix this. The drive is fubar'd all to hell

Good job BTC.

*HenryNettles* · 10-02-2005

Aren't the BTC drives based on the mediatek chipset? If so, they can be flashed from a DOS prompt when the drive is so fubared it cannot be recognized by ordinary means. See this page:

http://dhc014.rpc1.org/howto.htm

**H3rB3i** · 10-02-2005

BTC recovery page

lordsmurf · 10-02-2005

Nope. Doesn't work. The drive is hosed.
I tried several methods, several version of everything.
Nothing phases it. It's locked on the write light.

*ala42* · 11-02-2005

On some Liteon drives the eject button must be pressed during power on to get mtkflash running. It is worth a try.

lordsmurf · 11-02-2005

I took it back to the store and got a new one. It was only a day old.
Since I use it mainly as a reader, not a writer, not worrying about it.
It works fine on 030 right out of the box.

10-02-2005	#1 (permalink)
lordsmurf CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 348	warning: BTC1108 B230 firmware kills drive Title says it all. FW update software was fine, then drive began flashing on the LED. Started to make funny noises too. Reboot (Start -> Shutdown -> Restart) and computer came back, drive still flashing. Hard reboot (Start -> Shutdown -> Shutdown) and the power back on again. Computer refuses to boot with drive connected. Tried drive on another system. Will not be seen on the system where it would boot. There is no way to fix this. The drive is fubar'd all to hell Good job BTC.

10-02-2005	#2 (permalink)
HenryNettles CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Sealy, TX Posts: 1,006	Re: warning: BTC1108 B230 firmware kills drive Aren't the BTC drives based on the mediatek chipset? If so, they can be flashed from a DOS prompt when the drive is so fubared it cannot be recognized by ordinary means. See this page: http://dhc014.rpc1.org/howto.htm

10-02-2005	#3 (permalink)
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10-02-2005	#4 (permalink)
lordsmurf CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 348	Re: warning: BTC1108 B230 firmware kills drive Nope. Doesn't work. The drive is hosed. I tried several methods, several version of everything. Nothing phases it. It's locked on the write light.

11-02-2005	#5 (permalink)
ala42 MediaCodeSpeedEdit Author Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 4,336	Re: warning: BTC1108 B230 firmware kills drive On some Liteon drives the eject button must be pressed during power on to get mtkflash running. It is worth a try. __________________ LiteOn/Benq/LG/NEC/Pioneer/Samsung/Toshiba stuff: MediaCodeSpeedEdit V 1.1.0.20, released November 13th 2008

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11-02-2005	#6 (permalink)
lordsmurf CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 348	Re: warning: BTC1108 B230 firmware kills drive I took it back to the store and got a new one. It was only a day old. Since I use it mainly as a reader, not a writer, not worrying about it. It works fine on 030 right out of the box.

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