Firmware upgrade using Wine…
Interesting… The Wine (Wine is not an Emulator) project has been allowing me to run Windows applications on my Linux machine at home for quite some time. Recently, I needed to burn an image to a dual-layer DVD and was having problems getting it to read in my in-dash navigation system. Several posts on the internet pointed out that I was best off using Verbatim media, but I also feared that the ancient firmware on my burner (an NEC ND-3500AG) might be to blame.
Newer firmware was available, but as is almost always the case only available on Windows. As I do not have a running Windows image on this machine (let alone the possibility to run DOS) I figured I might as well attempt the flash using Wine. Should it fail, I could always take the drive out and attempt a re-flash on a Windows-based machine. What spells my surprise to find that the flash worked flawlessly! I’m not advocating this route for each and every flash, but I’ve seen more success-stories of firmware flashes using Wine.
And yes, the subsequent burn worked flawlessly…
