On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Levi Bard wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 00:30:21 -0500 (EST), Eben King
> <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Hmm, my NEC drive burns dvd+r adequately using dvd+rw-tools.
>From /usr/share/doc/dvd+rw-tools-5.11.4.6.4/index.html:
Q. Do I still need cdrtools?
A. Yes. It should be explicitly noted that growisofs is a front-end to
mkisofs, i.e. invokes mkisofs to perform the actual ISO9660 file system
layout.
So, what version of mkisofs do you have? "mkisofs --version" returns
"mkisofs 1.14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)".
It reports track 1 written successfully, then fails. That makes me think
mkisofs isn't at fault. Maybe my SCSI driver? I'm using the stock one from
2.4.26.
> You know how I can check my firmware version?
As root:
rmmod ide-scsi
hdparm -i /dev/hdc # or whatever
/dev/hdc:
Model=_NEC DVD_RW ND-2510A, FwRev=2.15, ...
^^^^
> Also, is the flasher something you could run from a DOS bootdisk? Or
> is it really a windows app?
No, it's really Windows. Runs under W2K; may run under earlier versions.
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