flashing firmware on drive in a mac book

slinxy · 23 Mar 2007 at 07:20

Hi
just wondering if anyone flashed the firmware on there drive on a mac book to make it RPC1 and to remove the riplock on the drive?

I prevs have flashed pc drives to make them apple bootable, but worried that if I flash the drive in the mac book it will stop the osx burning software making use of it and worst make it a non mac bootable drive.

Thanks

artaxerxes · 23 Mar 2007 at 16:09

I have not flashed my Drive. Nor have I set the region.

In System Preferences I have changed it to No Action in the CD & DVDs section.

I then use VLC to play any region DVD.

No hax's and so no danger of the drive not being recognised/hosed.

Hate · 23 Mar 2007 at 16:25

Unfortunately this doesn't work for all drives, apple rather naughtily don't allow RAW access to some of the newer drives and thus you won't be able to play anything unless you set the region.

I have a 2nd gen macbook pro with a flashed drive. I luckily got one of the older LG drives in my machine and followed the instructions you can get off another website.

artaxerxes · 23 Mar 2007 at 20:53

:O

Thanks for the heads up. I haven't encountered that problem. However that is likely due to the fact most of my content is from sources that don't require a DVD.

slinxy · 24 Mar 2007 at 15:55

Its a shame that apple sticks one of the worst drives (IMHO) in the there machines. The matshita UJ-857 is the biggest piece of rublish and is pointless having in my laptop; I should have gone for the combi drive. The lack of dye support, no raw reading and no RPC1 code and to top it off theres no firmware to make it better.