I was given a TSSTcorp SH-224DB DVD burner. This has a SATA interface. The firmware revision shown in dmesg was SB00. I decided to update this to SB01, the last available. Problem was the file was a Win32 executable. How to run this from Linux?
The drive in question is connected to my Linux machine via a USB to SATA dongle. I have a Windows XP VM so I decided to see if it could access the drive. The first time I tried connecting the drive which appeared as /dev/sr1 to the VM. The update executable said it couldn't find any suitable drive.
After some reading I tried another tack, I allowed XP to access the dongle via USB forwarding. This time running the update executable found the drive and duly updated the firmware.
The first attempt didn't work because VirtualBox was presenting a virtual DVD to the VM. But what the program wanted was access to the SATA interface, albeit via the USB layer.
This may work for other drives for which only a Windows executable is available.
The drive in question is connected to my Linux machine via a USB to SATA dongle. I have a Windows XP VM so I decided to see if it could access the drive. The first time I tried connecting the drive which appeared as /dev/sr1 to the VM. The update executable said it couldn't find any suitable drive.
After some reading I tried another tack, I allowed XP to access the dongle via USB forwarding. This time running the update executable found the drive and duly updated the firmware.
The first attempt didn't work because VirtualBox was presenting a virtual DVD to the VM. But what the program wanted was access to the SATA interface, albeit via the USB layer.
This may work for other drives for which only a Windows executable is available.
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