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 got the thing figured out to the extent that the firmware file comes up and looks for the cdrom, which it can not find. what I did was use a win 98 boot disk to get to msdos. then when I got a A> prompt I did a C: and into the C drive and then did "cd tmp" where I had the firmware and executable for my drive and then typed in "jv4 JV4LGX52" and the firmware install tried to find the CDROM. It did not so I finally gave up. When I booted the machine and pressed the eject button with the jumper as shown in a horizontal position it gave me a light but it stayed on and would not go off. So I don't know, maybe the thing is really dead or I am doing something else wrong. If anyone gets it to work on a dead drive please post what you did. Thanks, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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