[TriLUG] a 'non-windows' method to upgrade BIOS/firmware?

[Douglas Kojetin]

One other odd observation ...

I can apparently write OK now, use the 'cmp' and straight md5sum 
method, but when i do this:

>
>> 2. find /mnt/cdrom -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum >| ~/digest.disc
>>    --> got an I/O error
>>
> This got no errors.

I still get an error, but only on a file, and it does not seem to be 
file specific and terminal.  I noticed this round of conversation about 
Re: kernel ATA reliability ...

http://www.mail-archive.com/dvdrtools-users@nongnu.org/msg00310.html

I'm using Fedora kernal 2.4.22-1.2149

Any thoughts?

Doug