From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 00:48:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4BEF16A41F for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:48:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5482443D46 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:48:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from epia2.farid-hajji.net (epia-2 [192.168.254.11]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85DB4CE1D; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:46:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:51:51 +0200 From: cpghost To: Ted Mittelstaedt Message-ID: <20051019005151.GA27641@epia2.farid-hajji.net> References: <20051017080623.GA21153@epia2.farid-hajji.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Cc: Garrett Cooper , "Alastair G. Hogge" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:48:53 -0000 On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:25:53AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >Ah, good to know! So does this mean that if I already switched between > >region 1 and region 2 DVDs 100+ times, that the drive has already been > >flashed to RPC1 by the vendor? > > > > The drives I've dealt with seem to have a bit of nvram somewhere that > when you set > it to region 1 the first time that you play a DVD in it, a flag is set in > that nvram. > > The patches appear to make the DVD drive ignore the setting of that flag, > as a result > it seems immaterial what you have done with the drive pre-patch. It appears that this drive has been patched by the reseller or someone up the chain. I didn't know I was so lucky! :-) > >BTW, almost all flashers are DOS oder Windows-based. Do we have a > >FreeBSD-based general purpose flasher for this kind of stuff? > > Since I think it's illegal to do this in the first place I would say be > happy > they exist at all. ;-) You mean illegal in *some* countries... I've googled a bit and found a couple of IDE fireware flashers for Linux. Shouldn't be too hard to adapt to FreeBSD, given enough junk drives to experiement with and throw away... ;) BTW, not every flashing is illegitimate, not even in DMCA-land: just think of legitimate fireware upgrades, using images from the manufacturers. Should I *really* buy Windows just to be able to run their flasher? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/