Originally posted by: usatu
I just tried to flash my verbatim to a lite-on under win XP. But it doesn't work for me.
Anybody have a successful story?
First of all, I'm very happy with my Verbatim -> Liteon 32123S. 1) It's not at all loud like some are complaining about with the Liteon's, 2) the drive tray eject speed at the tail end is practically unnoticable, and 3) it flashed to 32123S like a charm. I was able to burn a 600MB CD in under three minutes, and extracted 600MB to the harddrive at about 2 min 10 sec.
Make sure you get the flashing steps down:
1) Boot to DOS with a Win98 boot disk, using Shift+F5 to boot directly to a command prompt (i.e. do NOT load CD drivers)
2) Download the MTKFLASH prog and the Liteon firmware (XS0U.bin) from the link previously mentioned and put them on a separate floppy
3) Boot into DOS, switch floppies, and backup your current firmware by the following command:
MKTFLASH X R /B /M filename.bin (where X is either 1 = Primary Master, 2 = Primary Slave, 3 = Sec Master, 4 = Sec Slave)
4) Turn that Verbatim into a Liteon by the next command:
MKTFLASH X W /B XS0U.bin (where X = see above)
Boot into WinXP (or any OS) and you should be set. The instructions say not to use the secondary IDE channel, but I did and it wrote fine.