> I got tired of having to move my BTC 1008 from my Alpha to a Windows > machine to update the firmware (especially since BTC seems to be > releasing updates quite often), so I made a flasher for *nix. It uses > transport.hxx from Andy Polyakov's dvd+rw-tools to talk to the drive, > so it should work on any system that dvd+rw-tools works on.
Shall we throw it directly into dvd+rw-tools then? If you would like that, then complement the source with your name, or originating url, or e-mail address, or "public domain" notice. > You'll need the firmware in an Intel hex-like format, which you should > be able to find somewhere in the Windows\Temp directory after running > BTC's flash utility (so you'll still need access to a Windows machine; > you just don't need the drive to be in one). It also might be good idea to throw this note into the commentary section. A.
