Firmware upgrading under Cedega
One of my more dubious stunts in a while;
Flashing my Samsung TS-542A DVD-burner
under Transgaming Cedega.
Silly Samsung thinks everybody is running Windows.
Unfortunately, Cedega isn’t quite free software
either, but at least it runs under Linux.
(And no, I don’t have Windows in my house, and no,
I certainly don’t plan to get it.)
(Plain Wine, which is free, might
have worked too, but I didn’t get around to testing it. And I
don’t want to push my luck, to be honest.)
(There was one minor problem, though. According to the
upgrading instructions, the flasher application has
three buttons in the top left of the window;
one to select a firmware file, one to start flashing, and one
“About”-button. Neither of these buttons showed up while running
under Cedega, but they were easily located by clicking randomly in
the target area.)
The reason was that I recently bought some cheap DVDRs
at Lidl, which my drive promptly spat out, coughing
and wheezing. So I flashed it. It didn’t help.
Oh well. The firmware is up-to-date, if nothing else.
So, now you know it can be done.