I just wanted to say that I managed to get rid of lots of weird ata soft resets and other related problems (see bug 104581) thanks to Tom's instructions using two flash drives. I'm on a Samsung Q35 laptop with the notorious TSSTcorp TS-L632D DVD writer (used to be firmware_version SC02, now SC04, downloaded). I have no Windows partition as I completely nuked it a while back, I'm an Ubuntu purist ;-). The FreeDOS's USB drivers work perfectly on my laptop too so that I had no problem accessing once I had booted from the first flash drive.
So I can vouch for Tom's instructions and would consider them as generic as long the reader has the same drive as above and no access to a Windows partition. For those folks still dependent on Windows the above instructions are probably easier. -- Feisty freeze, kernel (?) tries to access DVD drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75295 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
