Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:
Johann Schwarz wrote:
Hello!
I have risky news for you!
Look at: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=152583
and then: http://codeguys.rpc1.org/firmwares.html#SOHW-1693S
What do you think?
Johann: I value my warranty thanks :-)
Unless you fear that the firmware would render the drive incapable of
reflashing back to the vendor firmware I wouldn't worry overly about
that. I agree you don't want to ignore the issue, but vendors expect
you to reflash, so in itself that wouldn't void the waranty.
No thanks. What if I flash to a modified version of KS0A, and need to
go back to vanilla KS0A? What if I need to send the drive back under
the warranty due to a mechanical flaw? I'm not about to screw around
with firmware upgrades if I can get around it. By get around it, I
mean burn on Windows.
That was what I meant, you clearly expect the modified version to
somehow prevent you from going back and reflashing some earlier vendor
version. Given the total lack of reports of this problem, I think you're
very close to the line between caution and paranoia. You run an
opensource app, using open source drivers, in an open source O/S, and
you worry about non-commercial firmware messing up your drive to the
point that you can't reflash back.
Enjoy Windows.
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Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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