Revive your flashed-to-hell DVR-109

By kurisu. Original by Arthur - 16/08/2005 03:49:42 CEST - Category: Peripheral

We're sure this tip will help a few people who got stung by a bad flash :

Hello everyone,
Happy as a camper with my new Pioneer DVR-109 XLB1, I decided to flash it with the latest firmware (1.57 at time of writing) and DVRUpdate2.1.1.
The operation having been frozen in the midst of completion, I apparently had "lost" my burner : DVRUpdate didn't see the drive as a burner any longer.
After a cold restart and a check in the System Profiler, the drive appeared with a firmware version of "0000" instead of the old "XLB1".
Well, after a stroke of genius I decided to try the official Pioneer flashing tool (for PC) with the original firmware, and lo and behold, it worked, giving me another chance to try the new firmware and DVRUpdate.