Well I may have stumbled onto a solution to my problem but its going to take some more investigating on my part. I just located a utility App called DVD Toolkit, which tells you what the RPC status is for your dvd drive. RPC is 'Region Playback Control', kind of like a firmware, and sometimes this needs to be reset but can only be done by the vendor or manufacturer. I guess RPC-2 relates to write capability. Here are the results:
>> DVDInfo, version 2.0.3, by xvi. >> Scanning for devices, please wait....... >> >> Location: SCSI 2,2,0 >> Vendor: MATSHITA >> Model: DVD-RAM LF-D211A >> Firmware: A109 >> Serial Number: >> RPC Status: RPC-2 (region-locked) >> State is "SET" >> 4 region changes left >> 4 vendor resets left >> Region 1 So if I am reading this correctly, a LF-D211A DVD/RAM drive is an RPC-2 drive whose region is locked. (Interestingly, these regions also have some coorelation to regions of the world, but that's for the next novel :) Now I need to figure out how to go about resetting this. I've also just heard back from Panasonic so I may get that answer soon. Dave -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
