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I hosed the Firmware on the CDRW

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On the Yamaha 2100... going from 1.0h to 1.0n.

Downloaded the latest (n), disabled DMA, Ran the install.

Got 'firmware write error'.

Drive now displays as 'YAMAHA CRW2100S_CORE. Firmware reverted to 1.0f.

 

I did this same FW upgrade on this machine when I had a Yamy IDE 2100 in it and all went fine. That was on NT, before I did the dual boot.

The IDE drive was really flakey so it's in the closet and the SCSI is on board. The new CDRW ran sweet for 6 months. After the dual boot install it started wigging so I thought I'd try the FW upgrade.

Now it's toast.

Is there any way to save it?

 

[side note to all with CDRW's. Turns out the IDE CDRW was freaking because the power supply was inadequate. When it fried I put a beefier one in and the CDRW ran fine. Sadly, the low power damaged the inwards on the drive and I got 'bad kernel or private' or some such errors on it. Hence the banishment to the closet.]

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Solved it.

I have a SCSI scanner on the same loop. Unplugged the scanner and the flash worked perfectly.

The CDRW seems better behaved as well but that might be a function of the firmware upgrade.

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