Re: [xine-user] RPC-1 vs RPC-2 DVD drives

[<Eri...@sw...>]

>On a related note, the only firmware flasher I have seen for Ricoh drives
>needs Windows. This is a fairly large problem: I do not have a way, under
the
>current configuration, of running Windows on the machine with the drive,
>so I would have to temporarily put it in my Windows machine to flash it.
>Unless, that is, anyone knows of a program for MS-DOS or (better still)
>Linux, that can flash the firmware on my drive.

I upgraded my Toshiba Laptop DVD drive firmware from RPC-2 to RPC-1
successfully
using dos boot diskete.
http://www.geocities.com/neo_95100/

Eriks