I'm just going to go for it. may boot in safe mode but that's all. if it borks
the drives are cheap now.
thanks
fp
At 03:41 PM 7/30/2006, Mark Dodge Poked the stick with:
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From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Date: 7/30/2006 1:58:33 PM
Subject: [H] 3550a firmware update ?
new fw for my burner but the instructions are weird:
never had to do any of this b4
currently too much trouble
Pls note following instructions for update procedure:
Connect drive to secondary IDE channel as Master
Disconnect all slave hardware from IDE secondary Master
Use standard UDMA-2 IDE cable
Update in Windows Safe Mode
Update without DMA mode, under Windows XP 2000 in the device manager -
IDE ATA/ ATAPI controllers, you can switch from DMA to PIO mode
Disconnect all external USB/ FireWire devices.
Deactivate virusscanners, active desktop programs and packetwriting agents
FP
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