[TriLUG] a 'non-windows' method to upgrade BIOS/firmware?
Timothy A. Chagnon
tchagnon at nc.rr.com
Fri Jan 30 12:13:32 EST 2004
I've heard of people running win98 in ramdisk on diskless nodes, but
what i've found googling "windows 98 diskless" says you need to do the
install on a real drive first, so this doesn't really help. Until M$
goes OSS and people can make Win LiveCDs (ie hell freezes over) looks
like you need to dig up an old hard drive and punish yourself for a
couple hours.
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 11:30, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> Here's my output -- I'm using a 'different' drive. They've released
> new firmware, but ... I can't figure out how to install it w/o using
> Windows (or just using at Windows install disk, at the bare minimum,
> without installing).
>
> My guess = that it's the drive, since the media seems to work fine on a
> SuperDrive on an iMac.
>
> # scsi_info /dev/scd0
> SCSI_ID="0,0,0"
> MODEL="LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-411S"
> FW_REV="FS02"
> # scsi_info /dev/cdrom
> SCSI_ID="0,0,0"
> MODEL="LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-411S"
> FW_REV="FS02"
>
> Argh!
> Doug
>
>
> On Jan 30, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:
>
> > intersting...
> >
> > isoinfo on both the /dev/scd0 and file.iso come out the same...
> > might have something to do with the UDF filesystem on the actual dvd.
> >
> >> 2. find /mnt/cdrom -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum >| ~/digest.disc
> >> --> got an I/O error
> >>
> > This got no errors.
> >
> >> I was hoping that upgrading the firmware of the unit might help out,
> >> but ... not sure! Again, it seems I can burn things just fine under
> >> OS
> >> X with the *exact* same media. I've tried it with 2 DVD-RW discs.
> >>
> >> Anyone know why I might get an I/O error ... bad burn? media?
> >> read/dma settings?
> >>
> >> Doug
> >>
> >
> > Just off hand, make sure you're using ide-scsi on that drive. You
> > probably wouldn't have gotten that far without it though. I guess this
> > means it's media or the drive...
> >
> > here's my scsi_info to compare to yours
> > # scsi_info /dev/scd0
> > SCSI_ID="0,0,0"
> > MODEL="LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-451S"
> > FW_REV="GSB4"
> >
--
Timothy A. Chagnon <tchagnon at nc.rr.com>
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