Short: Amiga tool to change the flash ROM of a Plextor PX-R412C Author: Patrick.Ohly@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de Uploader: po@dcs.ed.ac.uk Version: 1.0 Type: disk/cdrom Kurz: Amiga Tool zum Aendern des Flash-ROMs eines Plextor PX-R412C Date: 20.8.98 Url: http://makecd.core.de/ Introduction ------------ FlashROM is a tool to update the flash ROM of a SCSI or ATAPI drive. At the moment it only supports the Plextor PX-R412C, but support for other drives might be added later. Any SCSI or ATAPI device can be used as long as it is compliant to the Amiga SCSI direct standard. This archive does not include any firmware file. The current version for the Plextor PX-R412C is 1.04 and can be found at http://www.plextor.be/english/technical/download.htm Disclaimer ---------- Neither the author of this tool nor the vendor of the drive shall be held responsible for any damages or losses, direct or consequential, resulting from the use, or inability to use the software. This applies even if the authors have been made aware of the possibility of losses or damage. FlashROM is copyright 1998 by Patrick Ohly. Copying and usage are allowed for free as long as no profit is made in doing so. Commercial distribution or distribution together with commercial products or commercial usage of FlashROM require the permission of the author. MakeCD + Availability of FlashROM --------------------------------- FlashROM was brought to you by the author who also wrote the SCSI, IO and GUI part of MakeCD, an "excellent" (Amiga Format #112) CD writing software for the Amiga. In contrast to one of our competitors I have decided not to restrict the usage of this tool to the users of our CD writing software. MakeCD does not need such an exclusive feature to be worth its money and I don't want anybody to buy it just to update his or her drive. Of course you are welcome to have a look at MakeCD in case that you should not know or use it already. An only slightly restricted demo of the current version is available at "http://makecd.core.de/". You will also find the current version of FlashROM there. I also believe that updating the firmware of drives is not one of the tasks a CD writing software should take care of. I regret that our competitor was not able to make their tool available to the Amiga community for free because of costs they had and still would have and because of their liability in case of a damage. I understand their objections and even though I decided to go a different way I share them, so once again in plain English: FLASHROM COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY OR SUPPORT! ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 12936 7766 39.9% 19-Aug-98 21:19:28 FlashROM 9382 4009 57.2% 19-Aug-98 20:16:02 FlashROM.doc -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 22318 11775 47.2% 20-Aug-98 21:52:42 2 files