Re: ssd / smart question
On 02/21/2011 09:06 AM, Brian Ryans wrote:
Quoting Paul Berry on 2011-02-14 01:47:
There is only one problem. The firmware update does not have a Linux
installer. You need to install Windows 7 or Vista on a separate boot
drive, then boot from it to use the firmware tool. I did a temporary
And THIS is why I mourn the loss of the venerable 1440K disk (or at
least the easy availability of ultra-small USB disks) and boot images
placed on vendors' websites. Made firmware upgrades fairly OS-agnostic.
I too mourn the demise of the floppy, but when you come right down to it,
a plain write-once CD costs about as much as a floppy used to. It just
seems
like such a waste to just put a few KB on a CD!
(There exist "business card" CDs, but I don't know if you can get writable
disks in that size. I have a couple that commercial s/w came on--some are
round, and some are actually rectangular, like a business card! They make
an awful noise in the drive, but they work.)
--doug
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