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Region-free DVD firmware for C2D MBPs now available (Page 2)
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Excellent info! My iMac thanks you! 
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Originally Posted by legionare 
If I didn't love being wrong most of the time, I would really really hate my job! 
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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?
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That's a CD MBP right? IIRC there's no RPC-1 firmware available for that drive (yet).
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My Macs: 128, 512, Plus, SE, SE/30, IIsi, IIci, PowerBook 100, Quadra 700, LC 475, Performa 630, Power Mac 7100, PowerBook G3 Lombard, iMac DV+, Power Mac G4 MDD, Ti PowerBook G4, 17" iMac G4, 12" PowerBook G4 1GHz, 12" PowerBook G4 1.5GHz, Mac mini G4 1.5GHz, 15" PowerBook G4 1.67GHz, 13" MacBook (black), 15" MacBook Pro 2.0GHz, 15" MacBook Pro 2.33GHz with 20" ACD, 15" MacBook Pro 2.4GHz with 23" ACD
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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! 
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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...
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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
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