From owner-freebsd-stable @ freebsd.org Fri May 4 15:00:16 2007 From: Tijl Coosemans To: freebsd-stable @ freebsd.org Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 14:38:40 +0200 Cc: Ulrich Spoerlein Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs On Thursday 03 May 2007 20:16:46 Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > I'm having a hard time getting my external (USB, Firewire) Plextor > PX-755UF to read any retail DVDs at all. I can read any kind of CDs > and also DVD-Rs. But mastered DVDs are invisible to FreeBSD. > > I can not even read a single sector from such a DVD with the > external drive, but it's working just fine with the internal one. > It's really driving me nuts. Maybe you have to change the drive region code (RPC 2). I had to do this a couple years ago with a laptop's internal drive. Either that or you need to find a patched firmware to make the drive region free (RPC 1). I wrote 2 simple programs back then to play with this, because I couldn't find anything in the base system. "regionget /dev/cd0" prints out the current drive region info, like: vendor resets left: 4 user changes left: 3 drive region: 2 rpc type: 2 "regionset /dev/cd0 3" sets the drive region code to 3. Don't forget that you can only change the region about 5 times (user changes left field).