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Re: Liteon 1693S stopped working with growisofs after upgrading firmware



On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 02:35:09PM +0000, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:
>>
>>That was what I meant, you clearly expect the modified version to 
>>somehow prevent you from going back and reflashing some earlier vendor 
>>version.
>
>The Liteon firmware update program CLEARLY states that it is not 
>possible to go back to a previous version of the firmware.  They state 
>it as a matter of fact.  I'm sure there are ways around this 
>limitation that is probably imposed by the Liteon flashing software 
>itself.

Hmmm. It's common to be warned that reverting to older firmware
versions is not a good idea. Newer versions may change the meanings of
various settings stored in NVRAM on a drive, for example...

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