DVD/CD Firmware Upgrading

Latest revision as of 16:13, 27 August 2007

[edit] Disclaimer

Firmware updating is dangerous because:

If anything goes wrong during the update process (i.e. you lose power or flash with the wrong BIOS file) you will have a borked drive

[edit] Guides

See these ancient guides for an intro into how the process works:

[edit] Windows

Check out your Optical Drive Manufacturers Website

[edit] Linux

Binflash (formerly called Uniflash) - Supports native firmware flashing of NEC, Optiarc and NEC/Optiarc compatible drives

Possible (UNTESETED - MAY STUFF UP) solutions for other drives include:

Booting using FreeDOS (GPL) and DOS flash utility - Guide here

NB:

  * You'll most likely need 2 optical drives and need to put the CD in the drive you don't want to flash.
  * Use the 2.88 CDROM Image with the config.sys file from the OEM image

Wine and Windows flash utility

[edit] Help

Post on the CDRFreaks forums.

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+== Disclaimer ==
+Firmware updating is dangerous because:
+<B>If anything goes wrong during the update process (i.e. you lose power or flash with the wrong BIOS file) you will have a borked drive </B>
+== Guides ==
+See these ancient guides for an intro into how the process works:
+* [http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=76277 LG CDRW 32x to 40x Flash]
+* [http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=159183 LG Burner 48x-52x Flash]
 == Windows ==
-Check out your optical drive Manufacturers website
+Check out your Optical Drive Manufacturers [http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/Optical_Drives#Optical_Drive_Manufacturers Website]
 == Linux ==
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 Possible <b>(UNTESETED - MAY STUFF UP)</b> solutions for other drives include:
-*Booting using [http://www.freedos.org/ FreeDOS] and DOS flash utility - Guide [http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.html here]
+*Booting using [http://www.freedos.org/ FreeDOS] (GPL) and DOS flash utility - Guide [http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.html here]
-<b>NB:</b> You most likely need 2 optical drives and need to put the CD in the drive you don't want to flash OR a motherboard that supports booting from USB
+<b>NB:</b>
+   * You'll most likely need 2 optical drives and need to put the CD in the drive you don't want to flash.
+   * Use the [http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDSTD.288.gz 2.88 CDROM Image] with the config.sys file from the OEM image
 *[http://www.winehq.org/ Wine] and Windows flash utility
+== Help ==
+Post on the [http://www.cdfreaks.com/ CDRFreaks] [http://club.cdfreaks.com/ forums].
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