EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE, FIRMWARE, STORAGE PART, METHOD FOR UPDATING FIRMWARE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH THE PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical disk device so formed that even if rewriting the firmware of an optical disk drive has failed, it can be rewritten from a disk. SOLUTION: This external storage device having a storage media and serving as a peripheral of a computer system includes a control means for controlling the system of the external storage device, and firmware having an updating means for the firmware including the control means. The function of reading from the storage media and the function of taking the storage media in and out are added to the part of the firmware having the updating means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI