Hi, Will wrote: > There are a few Windows/DOS utilites to flash/probe the drive firmware. I > was just wondering if there was any kind of Linux equivalent.
If i google "dvd diagnostic software" i get advertising for data recovery tools, which look mostly like hot air wrapped around normal SCSI commands, and manufacturer specific media inspectors, which seem to use commands which are not documented in SCSI specs. A firmware prober is not to see. On GNU/Linux i could offer my program xorriso for seeing the SCSI transaction dialog between drive and burn program, and for data recovery by standard SCSI commands. For a start you could run the proposed mini inspection of drive and inserted medium: xorriso -scsi_log on -outdev /dev/sr0 -toc 2>&1 | tee -i /tmp/xorriso.log A manufacturer specific media inspector is the software suite QPxTool http://qpxtool.sourceforge.net Among the QPxTools is a firmware flasher for Plextor drives. But given the promiscuity of vendors, it is unclear for which drives it would actually work. The suite dvd+rw-tools contains a program "btcflash" which promises to flash firmware of brives by vendor BTC. Have a nice day :) Thomas
