Comment 36 for bug 117441

I just wanted to say that I managed to get rid of lots of weird ata soft resets and other related problems (see bug 75295 and bug 104581) thanks to Tom's instructions using two flash drives. Nice FreeDOS image, Tom, I was looking for a way to avoid downloading a monstrous 150MB live CD FreeDOS image...

Btw, I'm not running any of the above systems, I'm on a Samsung Q35 laptop with the notorious TSSTcorp TS-L632D DVD writer (used to be firmware_version SC02, now SC04, downloaded). I have no Windows partition as I completely nuked it a while back, I'm an Ubuntu purist ;-). The FreeDOS's USB drivers work perfectly on my laptop too so that I had no problem accessing once I had booted from the first flash drive.

So I can vouch for Tom's instructions and would consider them as generic as long the reader has the same drive as above and no access to a Windows partition.