i recently flashed the firmware on my external lacie DVD+/-R drive. after some exploring i used a program called "necflashX" that allowed me to flash using the updated firmware (without the windows installer).
it worked fine for me, and everything is great! i would assume that is would work fine with your powermac. rick On Jan 17, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jan 17, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Carl Wimmer wrote: > >> My question is regarding firmware updates. There are no Mac >> updates on the Pioneer website for these models or any other >> running on OS X, but both have Windows firmware updates. What >> would the consequences of mounting the DVR-107D on an XP machine >> and updating the firmware be? The current 1.22 revision is >> supposed to deal with buffer over/underruns as well as allow the >> use of some newer DVD materials. > > Most of the time the firmware updates are platform agnostic inside > the drive, but they only have installers that run under Windows. I > have updated my Linux and Mac drives several times by plugging them > into Windows and running the installers. It's always worked, and > several times it cured annoying problems. I always write the > manufacturer complaining about the extra hoop they made me jump > through to fix problems with the product they sold me. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
