On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Justin Mason wrote:
> makes me wonder why hardware vendors don't just make CDROM images
> using FreeDOS; totally OS-independent firmware upgrades.
But still architecture dependent...
My Yamaha firmware updating adventure, mentioned previously, was with
an Alpha - DOS boot disks tend not to work on Alpha.
Fuzzbucket: Try under wine, worked for me - though you could easily
turn your drive into a brick though if it goes wrong and the drive
doesnt have an emergency "just enough to speak ATAPI and update
firmware" firmware ROM onboard.
> --j.
regards,
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