Unlocking the full potential of your Mac Pro's Sony DW-D150A
2006-09-30par Lionel
What is this SuperDrive in Mac Pro?
Transformation from SONY to Nec
Since this is the first time that Sony has sold Nec burners under its brand, we did not find instructions for performing a "crossflashing." So it took us a few hours to find a solution.
We ended up unearthing the utility: Binflash (http://binflash.cdfreaks.com/)
A command line version exists online for OS X, and although it does not work perfectly, it does its job. Then download the region-free (RPC-1) version of Liggy's ND4570 Bitsetting Firmware 1.03 from the following address: http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/4570/ The Bitsetting signifies that the burner will create double layer DVD-ROMs which are compatible with home entertainment equipment, even the old.
Once the firmware has finished downloading, unzip the two archives and put it all in a folder, which we'll call "SONYNEC" for this example, on your desktop.
Now launch the terminal. Start by entering the command "cd" (without the quotation marks), enter a space, then drag and drop the SONYNEC folder into the terminal window, and finally press return.
You should see the path /Desktop/SONYNNEC in front of your username
We now dump the firmware from the drive.
Enter the following command:
"./necflash -dump oldfirm.bin A:" (without quotations)
Note: if you have installed another burner and you have an error, it is probably nessessary to replace "A:" with "B:". Enter "y" to confirm you want to start the process, and then wait while the terminal does it thing, it should take 3 minutes.
Then, we flashed the firmwith with the following command, always without quotation marks:
"./necflash -flash 103bt_rpc1.bin A:".
It it again nessessary to press "y" to confirm you want to continue the process.
After validating the flash and crossing our fingers, we rebooted.
Since this is the first time that Sony has sold Nec burners under its brand, we did not find instructions for performing a "crossflashing." So it took us a few hours to find a solution.
We ended up unearthing the utility: Binflash (http://binflash.cdfreaks.com/)
A command line version exists online for OS X, and although it does not work perfectly, it does its job. Then download the region-free (RPC-1) version of Liggy's ND4570 Bitsetting Firmware 1.03 from the following address: http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/4570/ The Bitsetting signifies that the burner will create double layer DVD-ROMs which are compatible with home entertainment equipment, even the old.
Once the firmware has finished downloading, unzip the two archives and put it all in a folder, which we'll call "SONYNEC" for this example, on your desktop.
Now launch the terminal. Start by entering the command "cd" (without the quotation marks), enter a space, then drag and drop the SONYNEC folder into the terminal window, and finally press return.
You should see the path /Desktop/SONYNNEC in front of your username
We now dump the firmware from the drive.
Enter the following command:
"./necflash -dump oldfirm.bin A:" (without quotations)
Note: if you have installed another burner and you have an error, it is probably nessessary to replace "A:" with "B:". Enter "y" to confirm you want to start the process, and then wait while the terminal does it thing, it should take 3 minutes.
Then, we flashed the firmwith with the following command, always without quotation marks:
"./necflash -flash 103bt_rpc1.bin A:".
It it again nessessary to press "y" to confirm you want to continue the process.
After validating the flash and crossing our fingers, we rebooted.
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