Re: [SLUG] DVD firmware flasher?

From: Levi Bard (taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 05 2005 - 13:10:43 EST


On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 00:30:21 -0500 (EST), Eben King
<eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Somebody on dvdrhelp.com said that NEC support said that updating his
> drive's firmware to 2.16 (he and I have/had 2.15, 2.17's out now) would fix
> his (and my) inability to burn DVD+Rs. Anybody know how to flash an NEC DVD
> drive's firmware under Linux? I downloaded the Windows flasher, but it
> won't work under VMware and I don't have Windows native on my machine.
>
> Are the only solutions "don't use DVD+R" or "take the drive elsewhere" or
> "install Windows"?

Hmm, my NEC drive burns dvd+r adequately using dvd+rw-tools. You know
how I can check my firmware version?

Also, is the flasher something you could run from a DOS bootdisk? Or
is it really a windows app?

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