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DVD Drive - Firmware

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Just sharing some personal experiences. Yeah who uses dvd drives these days , well I find it kinda useful xD

 

So anyway up until now I didn't know that DVD drives can have their firmware updated.So I have a Optiarc DVD RW AD-5280S and decided to update the firmware , well more like a custom firmware that unlocks/modifies some features.


 

Here are the changes the firmware made:

Spoiler

 

Booktype setting allows for setting the booktype of a +R/+RW and +R-DL DVD disc to DVD-ROM.
This improves compatibility for some older commercial players.

 

Auto-Reset prevents the drive from permanently storing region code changes.

 

Well there ya go .. more functionality.

 

Curious , did anyone else do this?

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