On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:00:04PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I am looking to get a DVD-ROM drive for my system. I would like to hear > from people who have their DVD-ROM drives working under Linux: make, > model, good+bad points, etc.
I have a Pioneer 105s, slot-in model, 16x. Plays CDs and DVDs fine; I've had no problems. Some people say it's a little noisy but it's never bothered me. > Also, if you have a region locked DVD-ROM drive, did you manage to > remove the region protection and if so, how well does it work without > the region protection ? That's the reason I kept Windows around - so I could remove the region protection. In fact I did it this weekend and it worked fine. But there are warnings you could make your drive inoperable so be warned. I rented a couple of DVDs to see how it would go. I use OMS which has just been released to play the DVDs: The Iron Giant, a cartoon one, worked fine. However, Xman was jerky and sound was out of synch but this is to do with the OMS software; nothing to do with the DVD drive. Here are some notes on how I did it. Since driveinfo.exe reported my drive as firmware 1.11 I upgrade to 1.22 before running the region free bat file. Downloaded 105s 1.22 firmware from pioneer site to floppy. Restarted in _DOS_. Ran the bat file. Worked OK. Turned the machine off; then on. Checked with the driveinfo.exe -> upgraded firmware from 1.11 to 1.22. Downloaded 105s firmware to make region free from link on www.firmware.com.bi site to floppy. Restarted in _DOS_. Ran the bat file. Worked OK. Turned the machine off; then on. Checked with the driveinfo.exe -> region free! :) Good luck Jonathan
