hm... which DVD-ROM?

[dZeus]

I found some info on the web on making my drive region free: you have to place a jumper over '4' on the drive. It's defined as 'reserved', but now I placed a jumper on it, driveinfo says the drive has no region protection any more.

According to the manual of older drives, you mustn't ever remove this jumper when using this drive, otherwise the drive will be RPC-2 forever.. I haven't tried a region-1 disk yet, but I advise anyone who buys this drive to place a jumper on '4' prior to installing it, just in case.

I'll report more on if it's really RPC-1 now later, after some testing

[dZeus]

ok, the jumper doesn't seem to make the drive RPC-1 after all... though drive info reports the drive as having no region protection, I can't play back anything else other than region 1 discs... and I've set the PowerDVD region to the right one already

[Paddy]

My mate bought the 106 and it looks great. However, he is having trouble enabling DMA on the drive under Win98...Upon reboot it reverts to PIO mode....any ideas?

[dZeus]

hmmm... no. That's why I went SCSI in the first place. If I hook up my flatmate's Pioneer IDE, and enable UDMA, I get a BSOD in win2k startup immediately

[ayoub_ibrahim]

Paddy, what does bios detect the drive as?
it should be udma4 as it's stated to have an ata66 interface.

[VJ]

I also have a dvd-related question. The new Onkyo dvd-drive (17" home cinema device, model no. 939) can be equiped with a IEEE1394 interface. Sony als has devices with a IEEE1394 interface (e.g. system Lissa for the minidisk).

Does this mean (back to Onkyo) that such a drive can also be used as a dvd-rom ? Or is the firewire merely used to transfer DV-video/audio ?

(historical note : Marantz used to have a rackmount high end audio cd-recorder, which was equiped with a scsi-interface. This allowed the device to also be used for writing cdroms).

Jörg