On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:25:53AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >Ah, good to know! So does this mean that if I already switched between > >region 1 and region 2 DVDs 100+ times, that the drive has already been > >flashed to RPC1 by the vendor? > > > > The drives I've dealt with seem to have a bit of nvram somewhere that > when you set > it to region 1 the first time that you play a DVD in it, a flag is set in > that nvram. > > The patches appear to make the DVD drive ignore the setting of that flag, > as a result > it seems immaterial what you have done with the drive pre-patch.
It appears that this drive has been patched by the reseller or someone up the chain. I didn't know I was so lucky! :-) > >BTW, almost all flashers are DOS oder Windows-based. Do we have a > >FreeBSD-based general purpose flasher for this kind of stuff? > > Since I think it's illegal to do this in the first place I would say be > happy > they exist at all. ;-) You mean illegal in *some* countries... I've googled a bit and found a couple of IDE fireware flashers for Linux. Shouldn't be too hard to adapt to FreeBSD, given enough junk drives to experiement with and throw away... ;) BTW, not every flashing is illegitimate, not even in DMCA-land: just think of legitimate fireware upgrades, using images from the manufacturers. Should I *really* buy Windows just to be able to run their flasher? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
