On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:21 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Friday 14 November 2003 08:39 pm, Brian Parish wrote: > > 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 > > Ok, I had one other LG cdrom that was not working properly, and tried the > firmware upgrade with it. Seems to have worked as instructed. I will put it > in one of my 9.2 comps tomorrow. Just wanted to let the list know that the > upgrade worked on a still functioning cdrom, at least the install did. > Tomorrow will tell. More later. Well, I installed the LG cdrom into one of the Mandrake computers and made it IDE2 master. It is currently playing Elton John and running smooth. The firmware upgrade works. This is the original kernel from the bittorrent d/l. I did not upgrade the kernel. So anyone interested can feel reasonably comfortable that the fix is a fix. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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