I'm the happy owner of a Sony DRU-800A DVD burner, and I wanted to upgrade the firmware, as I had some little burning problems I hoped the upgrade would fix. Of course, Sony's website provides only Win32 flashers. They run under wine, but they don't actually do anything. Apparently, the way these win32 ioctls are implemented rely on the old hdc=scsi deprecated kernel interface. The trick is that we need a 2.4 kernel to get it working properly. So here are the steps I took:

Another day starting well: apparently Wine is a better alternative than Vista for gaming (admittedly, this guy only tested four different games, but Wine was the clear winner). Great !

As for me, I finally got Morrowind working under Wine, which is one of the reasons why I haven't been that active for Debian recently.