Update MSI DVD/CD rom/burner firmware

[acid45]

Hey everyone,

I haven't updated any firmware under linux before so if there are tools to do so I haven't found anything about them in my google searches.

I have a fairly old DVD burner from MSI and I'm having troubles reading black disc. he firmware update was release in 2004, about 2 years after I got my DVD burner. The update says that it adds support for more media. Other burners detect the discs but mine doesn't. I was wondering if there is something I can use to apply the firmware update, which is an win32 .exe and a .bin file. I was hopping I would be able to do something with the bin file without the use of Windows. Any help and advice would be much appreciated.

[acid45]

Okay, I used an MSDOS boot disk and removed some files so the flash update would work. It still doesn't read blank or burnt CDs. Does anyone know anything why this would happen? Burnt DVDs work fine.

I don't mean mounting. I mean when I put a disc in it just flashes green as if it's trying to find a disc and K3B says there is no medium present. It won't work with any burnt CDs but music CDs are read fine. Burnt and stamped DVDs work fine in the DVD burner.

[bwkaz]

If you got it in 2002, it's possible that it just doesn't read CD-R or CD-RW media. The first bunch of DVD drives (and a heck of a lot of CD-ROM drives) wouldn't read them, because the difference in reflectivity between an "on" bit and an "off" bit was lower on a burned CD-R or CD-RW than it was on a real CD-ROM. Drives have gotten much better at that, but if yours is old, that may be the cause. Especially if it was one of the first batch of DVD burners: those didn't really work very well with other media, IIRC.