Pioneer 104 update. FYI

[mud ver.2]

Originally posted by ottoman
I can download and update with firmware 1.40 and u can't. How come??

Open up your PC. On top of your Pioneer 104, read the model number. It should look like

DVR 104 XX

The xx's will be letters. Mine are SA (I think). That means that my drive was made by SOTEC. All 104 drives are made by someone else besides Pioneer (I asked a Pioneer rep. on the phone about this).

Sony, Apple, NEC, & SOTEC are all examples of OEM 104 makers. Supposedly, you can only update your 104 firmware with the OEM manufactuer's fw update software.

ie - If you have a Sony drive, you have to use Sony's 104 updater.

I've tried using Pioneer's updater. I get an error message to the effect of "Kernal number of part does not match", or something like that. I cannot use Pioneer's fw update software. I wish I could.