[SLUG] dvd drives...was DVD firmware flasher?

From: William Coulter (wrcoulter30@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2005 - 09:08:43 EST


Sence we are on the subject of DVD drives, what do think is the best drive? I am polling the user
list, and I don't what to start a flame war.

William

--- Seth Hollen <seth@hollen.org> wrote:

> Just use a windows boot floppy, goto bootdisk.com
> http://herrie.org/
> http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=86
>
> those are the 2 best pages on the net about nec flashing.
> I just upgraded my NEC 3520A dvdrw the other day. :)
>
> Seth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eben King
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 12:30 AM
> To: SLUG Mailing List
> Subject: [SLUG] DVD firmware flasher?
>
> 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"?
>

                
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