[legionare]

Originally Posted by ~bash $ 

I am pretty sure that you, like me, are out of luck for the moment.

Nuh uh. Lookie here:

Matshita and Apple RPC1 firmware: a sum-up

[ghporter]

Excellent info! My iMac thanks you!

[~bash $]

Originally Posted by legionare 

Nuh uh. Lookie here:

Matshita and Apple RPC1 firmware: a sum-up

If I didn't love being wrong most of the time, I would really really hate my job!

[ghporter]

Ok, now that I'm back on my MBP, I've had a chance to check out my drive. It's an HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080M with firmware version AA26. Software Update says I'm up to date with everything. Am I missing something, or have I simply not read all the right posts? Or do I have to jump through a different hoop to patch my drive?

[Simon]

That's a CD MBP right? IIRC there's no RPC-1 firmware available for that drive (yet).

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Ok, now that I'm back on my MBP, I've had a chance to check out my drive. It's an HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080M with firmware version AA26. Software Update says I'm up to date with everything. Am I missing something, or have I simply not read all the right posts? Or do I have to jump through a different hoop to patch my drive?

You got one of the iMacs with the LG/Hitachi(?) drives.

Apple uses about 90% Matsushita (Panasonic) drives and 10% others, in their computers that use slot loading laptop drives.

In their towers, they used ~90% Pioneer and ~10% others drives. I know because my Power Mac G5 has a Sony drive in it... which made it very hard to change to a newer Pioneer drive, because the mounting screws are different and you can't seem to get just the mounting screws from ANYWHERE!

[ghporter]

I was rather surprised to see "HL-DT-ST" show up myself. It's worked fine for me-even burning video DVDs for a class. But the whole region issue is a burr under my saddle as they say-I don't currently have DVDs from outside Region 1 (though I do have a few Region 0 discs), but what if I did...

[trb216]

Simon help! I went to the french site before seeing this forum... I have the same BE39... have downloaded the firmware... but don't know how to run the darn thing... the file is .exe... so how do I run the frimware?

The french wedsite said since i have the Superdrive 2.1 update... that I would have to use parallels... which I have downloaded and have running. But I still do not understand how to to run the thing

thanksI have been going at this for hours, Thomas

Originally Posted by Simon 

There's still a solution: BE39 firmware.

This page is in French, but you can find firmware for lots of other iB/PB/MB(P) drives there.

[rmcinnes]

The Matsishita DVD-R UJ-846 [FM3J] firmware update was rejected by my MacMini.
"...not compatible with 10.5.4", "...upgrade OS and and try again",
Readme stated it is suitability for Max OS X 10.4.5 or later...

The firmware was sourced via http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=43082.
Refer UJ-846, Firmware version FM3J.

Any suggestions, I am extremely annoyed by this Regional Code nonsense. I have lived in Sydney, Singapore, Japan, and Perth, and as a consequence, have DVD's in my library with various regional codes, all which work without issue on all the DVD players I have owned over the years. But not on my Apple MacMini? [except the selected code].

Your ideas most welcome; I would very much like to get this sorted out...

Thank you, all, for a very comprehensive discussion, and great set of links.

Robert

[Don_Veitone]

Hi,
first of all thanx for helping all of us out here!

My problem occured, when I tried to run the firmware update. It just stops and shuts down within a few seconds after launching

I checked so far everything. No network, power cord plugged in, no additional software running, no dvd in the drive, rpc set to region 2.

what is wrong? Please help me!

Thanks!