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

[Douglas Kojetin]

I meant to add this in before (sorry for clogging) ...

I took the same disk that produced an error on the below command under 
Fedora to an OS X box, ran the same command, and everything = OK.

: /

Doug


On Jan 30, 2004, at 4:09 PM, Douglas Kojetin wrote:

> 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
>
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