Pioneer have a rather nice little W2K utility that works very well to flash their drives' firmware, but that doesn't really help, does it ? As such, we have to fall back to the old DOS boot diskette, and use the tools that come with the archive here (this is the 116 page)... http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/Pioneer/CDA/ServiceAndSupport/SelfHelpForI... This is a little more complicated in that the drive to be flashed must be the master on the secondary IDE channel with no slave devices attached. Just be thankful it needn't be a full moon at the time, too. Most BIOS/Firmware flashes are done via a DOS boot diskette, even in this day and age. AFAIK, you can create a bootable DOS diskette from the Utils on CD1 of the SuSE distro, but don't hold me to that. Always be sure that the firmware you intend to use is the correct one for the hardware you have, otherwise you WILL have problems. Some of the flash utils will tell you what version you currently have, but not all of them. Bye for now, Stuart. <snip> I have not flashed the firmware. How does one do that, from Linux, when the device doesn't have an interactive interface? I don't have a windows partition, and I don't have access to any Windows boxes where I could temporarily install the DVD drive for update, so it's got to happen via Linux. </snip>
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Stuart Powell