SuperDrive Firmware Update
Hi there, For some reason my mac mini g4 (debian lenny + bpo) keeps on refusing some dvds but not other. I do not see anything in dmesg. I am wondering if people are doing firmware update of their drive ? is it possible from debian ? thanks, -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=g80fazoxptm_she4vve_nsznsonww_eyz9...@mail.gmail.com
Superdrive firmware update
For all of you that sometimes miss Slashdot (well, I do somethimes, sorry ;-) http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/17/2249226mode=nestedtid=137tid=180 referencing http://superdrive.cynikal.net/ Here, you can find a hack from Cynical for the DVD-Superdrive shipping with the Powerbooks. This allows to use all the capabilities fo the drive but DVD-RAM, at the maximum speed. BTW, anyone knows any flash updater for Linux? Or knows how to make one? Because, I emailed cynical and the guy answer me extremely fast with a nice solution (BootXCD, a nice free soft that makes a bootable image of your MacOSX, so if the image works, you can keep it in a CD/DVD and boot from it to update firmwares released by Apple while keeping you laptop linux-only! :-), but I would still love to have a reboot-free laptop ;-) Any ideas? -- J. Javier Maestro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rigel.homelinux.com
Re: Superdrive firmware update
OoO En cette fin de nuit blanche du samedi 30 août 2003, vers 06:55, J. Javier Maestro [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: BTW, anyone knows any flash updater for Linux? Or knows how to make one? Because, I emailed cynical and the guy answer me extremely fast with a nice solution (BootXCD, a nice free soft that makes a bootable image of your MacOSX, so if the image works, you can keep it in a CD/DVD and boot from it to update firmwares released by Apple while keeping you laptop linux-only! :-), but I would still love to have a reboot-free laptop ;-) Well, this BootXCD is a great solution for us not having Mac OS X any more on the hard drive. I wanted to update my Airport card and found no solution (well, in fact, a Mac OS X DVD updates it even without installing it). I have googled but have not found anything about it. Where can I find this software (for Linux ? for Mac OS X ?). Is it for Linux or Mac OS X ? -- panic (Splunge!); 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/psi240i.c
Re: Superdrive firmware update
On Aug Sat 30 2003 10:53, Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO En cette fin de nuit blanche du samedi 30 août 2003, vers 06:55, J. Javier Maestro [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: BTW, anyone knows any flash updater for Linux? Or knows how to make one? Because, I emailed cynical and the guy answer me extremely fast with a nice solution (BootXCD, a nice free soft that makes a bootable image of your MacOSX, so if the image works, you can keep it in a CD/DVD and boot from it to update firmwares released by Apple while keeping you laptop linux-only! :-), but I would still love to have a reboot-free laptop ;-) Well, this BootXCD is a great solution for us not having Mac OS X any more on the hard drive. I wanted to update my Airport card and found no solution (well, in fact, a Mac OS X DVD updates it even without installing it). I have googled but have not found anything about it. Where can I find this software (for Linux ? for Mac OS X ?). You can find it in htpp://www.macupdate.com, search for bootcd and you will find this ;-) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7957 or the direct download: http://www.charlessoft.com/BootCD.dmg Is it for Linux or Mac OS X ? It is for Mac OSX. It basically makes a bootable ISO out of the Mac OSX intallation that you already have (a la Norton Image-whatever ;-). So, when you burn that image (you can add the tools you want to the basic Finder and console), you try to boot and if it works, you can get rid of that Mac partition and give it a good use ;-) Now, on the flasher issue... any good SCSI hacker around the list? because I found a nice tool called rpcmgr11.c that allows you to do nice thingies to LG DVD drives, and I think it could be converted to a flasher tool for linux users to be able to flash firmware updates to the DVD... now, I really have no clue on SCSI, MMC-2, or any of the like, so a big help would be great to be able to start living a Linux only life :-) and be able to wait happily for the RPC-1 firmware patch without MacOSX lying around my hard drive... Any ideas? I am already trying to diassemble the latest firmware available for the Matsushita, the one I mentioned in the first email of the thread. If I manage to get the .hex file right, I will post it so any nice wonderfull hacker can try and patch it right :-D Chrs! -- J. Javier Maestro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rigel.homelinux.com
