RE: A way to use wine to run eprom updates for DVD drives?

[Roberto Malinverni]

>  -----Messaggio originale-----
>  Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:09:15 -0700
>  From: stan <goedigi89__e(a)cox.net&gt;
>  Subject: A way to use wine to run eprom updates for DVD drives?
>  
>  Hi,
>  
>  The subject says it all.  Is there a way to use wine to 
>  update the BIOS 
>  on DVD drives (and other devices)?  When I tried it, it just hung the 
>  process.
>  
>  Or another way, without using Windows (I don't have any MS OS)? 
It depends on the brand of your drives: NEC/OPTIARC can be flashed natively
in Linux
thanks to binflash (it can use both exe and bin files).
In other cases, you have to use something like a "Windows live cd" (I don't
remember the link, but you need a copy of the XP install CD anyway) or a
good old DOS floppy boot disk.
Roberto.


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A way to use wine to run eprom updates for DVD drives?

[stan]

Roberto Malinverni wrote:
> > -----Messaggio originale-----
> > Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:09:15 -0700
> > From: stan <goedigi89__e(a)cox.net&gt;
> > Subject: A way to use wine to run eprom updates for DVD drives?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The subject says it all.  Is there a way to use wine to 
> > update the BIOS 
> > on DVD drives (and other devices)?  When I tried it, it just hung the 
> > process.
> >
> > Or another way, without using Windows (I don't have any MS OS)?
> >     
>
>  It depends on the brand of your drives: NEC/OPTIARC can be flashed natively
>  in Linux
>  thanks to binflash (it can use both exe and bin files).
>     
Don't have NEC.
>  In other cases, you have to use something like a "Windows live
> cd" (I don't
>  remember the link, but you need a copy of the XP install CD anyway) or a
>  good old DOS floppy boot disk.
>  Roberto.
>     
That's what I thought, but wanted to check.  :-( 

Thanks.