Sean Dague wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:28:32PM -0300, Orion Vianna wrote: > >> That Lite-on drive does not seem to burn DVDs. maybe you want it that way... >> If you want to switch from foreign to national DVDs without limits and >> not have the problem of locking your drive forever in to a region, you >> might want to do a firmware flash with a hacked firmware. >> See if there is a firmware made for that drive at >> http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php >> >> You probably know this but, be careful with firmware flashing there is a >> risk of trashing the drive. >> > > Linux doesn't respect region coding, so you don't really need to worry > about that if you are using things from a Linux box only. > > -Sean > Thats true about linux but I had bad experiences with matsushita/panasonic drives. This was a couple of years ago and if I remember correctly, the drive I had kept the region and how many times it could change in the hardware itself. There was nothing I could do to change the region and there was no firmware to make the drive RPC-1.
I have a lots of bad experiences with matsushita/panasonic drives not just dvd drives. Orion _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux Jun 4 - TBD Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative)
