Re: LG DVD ROM

Here's a site that I've used a few times, they have an archive of both
official and 'unofficial' (slightly modified, usually for booktype and
bitsetting purposes) firmwares for a wide variety of drives.

http://tdb.rpc1.org/

I can vouch for the legitimacy of the firmwares offered, or at least
for the Pioneer 111D and 111L firmware, as I had used both of them
over the weekend.

Most are packaged with simple windows or command prompt flash tools,
just click and run (from windows).

As for finding out the specific model of the drive, the drive details
on boot will typically indicate it as part of the string shown.
Alternately check the device properties under windows.

On 1/8/07, Eve Kotyk <e.kotyk@shaw.ca> wrote:
> The thing is Brian, I've searched LG Electronics and can find no
> firmware for the DVDROM. And you are right it is a DVDR, CDRW.
>
> Eve
>
> Brian Borley wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 Jan 2007 18:22, Eve Kotyk wrote:
> >
> > I have always been delighted at the way my Mandirva Linux 2006 plays DVD's.
> > Just insert it and wait for it to come up.
> >
> > I also have an LG burner. In fact I have two. One of them failed. I returned
> > it to the dealer. My dealer returned it to the factory. It hasn't missed a
> > beat so far, (Touch wood!")
> >
> > I have heard that LG burners had a glitch when used in Linux systems, a
> > failure since corrected. This seems to fit since niether of my LG burners
> > have been any problem since it se3ems the glitch has been rectified.
> >
> > Is your LG stil,. under warranty?
> >
> > Brian Borley
> >
> >> A weird thing happened yesterday. I tried to watch a DVD on my computer
> >> using Kaffeine. The sound was terrible, skipping to silence in some
> >> places. Then Kaffeine crashed.
> >>
> >> So I booted into Windows, and the same thing happened except that it
> >> crashed the whole machine. In fact it powered down, and wouldn't start
> >> up again for awhile. This really freaked me out because I couldn't
> >> imagine what could do that.
> >>
> >> I tried the movie DVD in my laptop and everything was fine.
> >>
> >> I have wondered about this DVD ROM for some time. Almost anything I try
> >> to burn in it comes out bad. What would cause it to shut my machine down
> >> though? I thought it might be a heat problem, but don't know why it
> >> would generate so much heat.
> >>
> >> I run Mandrake 2007.0 Free, AMD 2400+, 767 mg RAM.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any idea why this would happen?
> >>
> >> Eve
> >>
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Received on Tue Jan 9 15:25:38 2007