Flashing DW-U18A to Lite-On 832s

Post by **Illuminati** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:31 am

Update: I wrote a little article on my experiences while modding this drive. Check it out!

Well, a couple days ago, I took my chances and followed the instructions to flash my Sony DW-U18A DVD burner to become a Lite-On 832s Dual Layer burner... at least theoretically, because I have not tested the Dual Layer part yet.

I followed the instructions from this thread: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=102104

However, what is holding me up is the current price of DL media... According to newegg, one DL disc is $12! my main question to all of you is where can I get the best bargain for DL media?

Newegg Price: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDe ... 359&depa=0

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:09 pm

try the black market in china yet?

Post by **Illuminati** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:53 pm

nope... I'm thinking about forking up $13 and getting one from newegg.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:45 am

See if you can get some for a DL review

T-Shirt · Post by **T-Shirt** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:11 pm

Cheap Dual Layer is not here........YET.
The factories are currently ramping up.
One problem is DL discs are a complex 9-11 layer sandwich that must be nearly perfect to work. however once several companies get in to full production, DL discs price will plumet just as cdr, cdrw, DVDR and DVRW did before it.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:14 pm

And i can start making a fortune coping disks from blockbuster and selling them on ebay!

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 6:15 pm

Go to jail, go directly to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.00...............

T-Shirt · Post by **T-Shirt** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 6:41 pm

infinitevalence wrote:And i can start making a fortune coping disks from blockbuster and selling them on ebay!

You really believe you can compete with the Chinese and Russian mafia?

Even if you got the discs free (and a get out of jail free card, you couldn't do the volume needed

Post by **Illuminati** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:19 am

Well, it looks like some DL media is on the way!!

T-Shirt · Post by **T-Shirt** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 9:26 am

good, send me some

even the places that advetise it around here don't actually have it in stock

Just want me to plunk down my money for some future delivery

Post by **Illuminati** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:39 pm

Hey all!.. Just wanted to let everyone know that I did a little write-up on the process of modding my DW-U18A to the Lite-On 832s Dual Layer burner!

Check out our first article on the new PHP backend to find out how it went!
http://www.legitreviews.com/article.php?aid=109

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:48 pm

cool beans man, now that i have seen that it works i think i will finaly flash mine. DL media + net filx == mad home liberary.

fox · Post by **fox** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:25 am

I just tried this with the version we get in aus. Everything was the same as yours (except a white front) and it fooked my burner, can't boot into windows to reflash with original bios either.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:57 am

Wow that sucks, are you sure its the same drive?

Post by **Illuminati** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:52 pm

Did you pay close attention to this section of the article?

To determine if this mod will work for your DW-U18A

As far as we know, this mod will only work for Revision 1 models of this burner, which has the gear-driven tray. Revision 2 has a belt-driven tray and has not been tested. To tell if you have revision 1 of the DW-U18A, open LtnFW (see below on where to download it) and look to see if the current firmware version of your drive is UYS1. If it is, then you have Rev. 1 of this drive and may continue. If it says UFS1, then you have the belt-driven tray and these instructions are not known to work for that drive.

HUP · Post by **HUP** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:02 am

this worked great on my sony DW-U18A 8x burner, i was having trouble applying the firmware as i was running the tools from the zip files, so i then extracted all the tools and .bin files and tried again and it worked.

Even though this is an old guide, it stil works perfectly and DVD+R DL are now in production.

Thanks.