On Saturday October 27 2007 05:30, Németh Márton wrote: > I have a PHILIPS CD-RW/DVD-ROM SCB5265 and I have problems reading of some > DVDs. I found two different firmware updates which contains .exe files: I have problems reading of some DVDs too for a long time so I decided to try to update firmware on my ASUS DRW-1608P using Windows update utility on Linux. My model is completely different but see below how I did it - it may help you too. > My question is that how complete is the ASPI implementation in wine? > May the firmware update work under wine, or we are far from this state? After some investigation I can say that WINE has pretty good ASPI implementation. And it is possible to update firmware using it but you need to run the utility as root and it may take long time (at least in my case and I don't think that this is WINE or Linux fault). > $ wine --version > wine-0.9.47 > $ wine PHILIPS-SCB5265-TD19.EXE As I have said try to run as root instead. Does this work for you? In my case when I ran update utility as root (if I try to run it as simple user it simply fails with strange error), it took about 10-15 minutes for progress bar to appear. Then it took a lot of time to transfer the firmware (maybe 30-40 minutes). But at the end update was successful! So this works with WINE perfectly at least for me. I also have tested VMWare with Windows XP x64. But Windows never worked with DMA correctly for me (in fact many years ago my brother have used Windows on my computer before he finally switched to Linux and DMA never worked in Windows even on real hardware so disk/cd access was terribly slow) and without it utility for firmware update doesn't work of course (at least according to VMWare warning that DMA should be enabled in the guest). Have no idea why Windows don't want to use DMA for DVD drive by default and how this can be fixed or how I can enable it (maybe it is possible to install additional updates or tweak something in registry, I'm not sure; anyway, this isn't an issue for me because my everyday use of VMWare is limited for running professional Autodesk products like 3ds max and AutoCAD and that's all). I havn't tested 32-bit Windows XP in VMWare. Anyway, WINE with Linux (which has perfect support for DMA) works with no problem. It is really great to see that it is possible to update firmware in my DVD drive using WIndows update utility on Linux with WINE! Useful note: you can use hdparm -I /dev/hda (where /dev/hda is the device file for your DVD drive) to see what version of firmware you have. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
