Please change the subject......
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Tkil wrote:
> >>>>> "Ted" == Theodore Y Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> Ted> This is annoying, but at least you could take the .EXE to a
> Ted> friend's machine that does run windows, unpack the file, and then
> Ted> extract the raw binary firmware file.
>
> I tried that. It's *not* an archive -- it's an actual firmware
> downloader (so far as I can tell). It wants a plextor-specific DLL
> which it presumably would use to download the firmware direct to the
> drive. I could not find any way to extract just the raw binary.
>
> On the other hand, maybe I can play games with objdump or friends...
>
> Ted> Heh. Unfortunately, Plextor drives are among the best in the
> Ted> business, where as the rest seem to be interested in the
> Ted> high-volume, low-cost, low-quality market. That's why it's
> Ted> really surprising to me, given the other engineering decisions
> Ted> which Plextor has made, that Plextor USA doesn't want to support
> Ted> the Linux market. Stupid, really, considering that they've
> Ted> already decided to focus on the high-end of the market.
>
> Maybe it's time for a polite letter-writing campaign. I exhausted
> most of my energy for dealing with them a few months back, maybe I'm
> ready to try again.
>
> Thanks anyway,
> t.
>
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Andre Hedrick
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