On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:54, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > It looks as though LG has posted revised firmware for affected drives and
> > also published a method for reflashing already dead ones.
> >
> > Point your browser to http://us.lgservice.com/
> >
> > click Device Driver icon
> > click CD-ROM link
> >
> > The first hit is "Emergency download for Physical Dead Drive from Mandrake
> > Linux 9.2"
> >
> > There is a .gif attached that explains how to reflash the drives.
> >
> > There are also firmware upgrades for 9 drive models.  WDYT?
> This is great but the english is so broken that I am not sure exactly what to 
> do. First problem is how to boot into MS-DOS mode?  Second problem is what 
> the heck does C:W(with a bar through it)temp> mean? I can get the light to 
> come on again on the drive but have no idea how to flash the firmware from 
> the discription. Any help is appreciated. Oh, I am trying to revive this 
> drive using a K6II soyo mobo with win2K loaded. 

Hi Dennis,

It's not a class act is it!  The C with the bar is a character mapping
error - should be a "\".  So this is just the DOS prompt, not a command
you have to enter.

The example assumes that you've downloaded a program called xferlg and
stored it in C:\temp

It also assumes that a file called q1iglx32 exists in the same
directory.  Where you get these files is unclear to me, but I have
looked around their site to try to find them.

The best way to do this is probably to build yourself a DOS boot
diskette, and copy the downloaded stuff to it.  Your procedure would
then look like:

A:\> Xferlg q1iglx32 [enter]

I presume the CDR-8322B that follows is a response to a prompt issued by
xferlg.

If you are using W2K, then it's likely that you have NTFS which DOS
can't read.  Hence the suggestion to do all this using a boot floppy.

HTH
Brian
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