Optical Drive Firmware Update

[Hand of Ike]

Hi

I have a Panasonic (MATSHITA) UJ-265 Optical Drive installed internally in my iMac (Late 2009, Yosemite). There is a firmware update available for the drive, but it's on an .exe file. Quick question if I was to update the firmware via a Windows laptop would the firmware update apply to the drive under OS X?

No explained that very well so, if I update the firmware from 1.0 to 1.1 in Windows, will the firmware be 1.1 if I then plug it back into my Mac?

The reason I ask is that the drive is great but sometimes it doesn't see or grab the disc when you insert it. I was hoping that a firmware update would solve this.

Also if I was to install Windows via BootCamp on my Mac, would it be able to launch .exe firmware updates and update the related hardware?

Many thanks

 

[Nermal]

Firmware is contained entirely within the device, so updating on a Windows machine - or through Boot Camp - would work.

Is it a third-party drive or provided by Apple? Some Apple-supplied drives have historically used different firmware, but I can't say whether that's still the case.

 

[Hand of Ike]

Firmware is contained entirely within the device, so updating on a Windows machine - or through Boot Camp - would work.

Is it a third-party drive or provided by Apple? Some Apple-supplied drives have historically used different firmware, but I can't say whether that's still the case.

Thanks for that, that's what I thought but wanted to check. It's a 3rd party drive as I understand Apple doesn't support Blu ray directly (the drive is a Blu ray burner) for some reason (I think it's to do with licensing agreements via Sony etc).

I think I'll just connect it via USB on my girlfriends laptop and update it that way.

Cheers