[ltp] Re: Firmware Upgrade/Region Set on UJ-812 DVD burner from Linux

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:10:18AM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Has anyone managed to either
> 
>   (1) upgrade the firmware
>           or
>   (2) set the region code
> 
> on the UJ-812 DVD burner, from Linux? (This is the default one for the
> Thinkpad X40 slim ultrabase).  
> 
> All of the tools I've found seem to be for Windows only--and I don't have
> Windows installed.  Any way to do it from Linux?  IBM ignored my support
> request on the subject.
> 
> Thanks for any tips.

And a related question--has anyone figured out how to upgrade the
firmware without a floppy drive? Are we really expected to buy a whole
new peripheral just to do a firmware upgrade?