On Jan 18, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
> The eject button does not work ? The drives which were made by Pioneer under an OEM contract for Apple do not have all the features of the retail Pioneer drive. Some of the features which are, or may be missing, include: 1) support for DVD-RAM (but such media may be supported as read-only), 2) front bezel and eject button, 3) tray front, 4) activity light, and 5) support for a wider variety of recordable media (may be artificially limited to a lower recording speed and/or some common media vendors may be ignored). Many of the Pioneer drives have so-called hacked firmware, which can restore many of the functional restrictions imposed on these OEM drives. For example, if the Pioneer firmware is 1.37, look on the 'Net for 8.37 firmware. 8.37 firmware was released for the BenQ version of the Pioneer drive, and this firmware supports many more functions, and full recording speed over a wider list of media. Drives which are labeled Pioneer, but which were made for Sony, cannot be FLASHed ... these are permanently "locked" to Sony firmware. You cannot tell a Sony OEM drive from a Pioneer OEM drive, or, indeed, from a Pioneer retail drive, without accessing the firmware using DVRFlash_2.2. With specific reference to (2), above, some Pioneer OEM drives have the eject microswitch physically missing. Such drives may only be ejected logically, using the keyboard action. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
