Short:    Amiga tool to change the flash ROM of a Plextor PX-R412C
Author:   Patrick.Ohly@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Uploader: po@dcs.ed.ac.uk
Version:  1.0
Type:     disk/cdrom
Kurz:     Amiga Tool zum Aendern des Flash-ROMs eines Plextor PX-R412C
Date:     20.8.98
Url:      http://makecd.core.de/

Introduction
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FlashROM is a tool to update the flash ROM of a SCSI or
ATAPI drive. At the moment it only supports the Plextor
PX-R412C, but support for other drives might be added later.
Any SCSI or ATAPI device can be used as long as it is
compliant to the Amiga SCSI direct standard.

This archive does not include any firmware file. The current
version for the Plextor PX-R412C is 1.04 and can be found at
  http://www.plextor.be/english/technical/download.htm


Disclaimer
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Neither the author of this tool nor the vendor of the drive
shall be held responsible for any damages or losses, direct
or consequential, resulting from the use, or inability to
use the software. This applies even if the authors have been
made aware of the possibility of losses or damage.

FlashROM is copyright 1998 by Patrick Ohly. Copying and
usage are allowed for free as long as no profit is made in
doing so. Commercial distribution or distribution together
with commercial products or commercial usage of FlashROM
require the permission of the author.


MakeCD + Availability of FlashROM
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FlashROM was brought to you by the author who also wrote the
SCSI, IO and GUI part of MakeCD, an "excellent" (Amiga Format
#112) CD writing software for the Amiga. In contrast to one
of our competitors I have decided not to restrict the usage
of this tool to the users of our CD writing software.

MakeCD does not need such an exclusive feature to be worth
its money and I don't want anybody to buy it just to update his
or her drive. Of course you are welcome to have a look at
MakeCD in case that you should not know or use it already. An
only slightly restricted demo of the current version is
available at "http://makecd.core.de/". You will also find the
current version of FlashROM there.

I also believe that updating the firmware of drives is not one
of the tasks a CD writing software should take care of. I regret
that our competitor was not able to make their tool available
to the Amiga community for free because of costs they had and
still would have and because of their liability in case of a
damage. I understand their objections and even though I decided
to go a different way I share them, so once again in plain
English: FLASHROM COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY OR SUPPORT!