Oh well, I guess that fits with the observed facts. Pity, I guess I'm screwed then :(
Thanks for the info Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz ----- Original Message ---- From: Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Simon Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 11:00:00 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] xine/region issue? On Nov 10, 06 09:12:43 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: > I was always under the impression the hardware itself held the region. > You can buy drives with no region code set, but windows won't let you > work that way, but Linux will. (Well, at least SuSE 9.3 did). > > But if your drive has it s region set, your screwed. Try swapping the > drive from your old machine in - or is this a laptop? You can always dump the encrypted data from a drive that has no region code set yet (there are utilities on the web to reset a drive to that state). AFAIK it depends on the drive whether this is still possible if a region is set, and the disk has a different one than the driver. No, this is not an RPC-1 vs. RPC-2 issue. > This is a laptop, so was the old machine (which isn't that old, and I'm > pretty sure it's drive was region coded as Windows wouldn't play my region 2 > disks). Windows has an additional region code layer, so you actually don't know nothing in that case. Chances are high, though. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ labs www.mshopf.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
