Just use Drive Setup to format the hard drive when you get it. However, make sure you set it to "slave." Having two "masters" on an ATA chain is not pretty, trust me.

gelly, didn't you know computers are supposed to be confusing? That's why Apple came along... although we had a heck of a time repairing some severely fragged disks today. Crimin…

more less related question...does DMA stand for Direct Memory Access?

Probably.

The Maxtor 30 gig works like a charm, using it right now in my B&W tower,

If there is a difference, it's that ATA was the expansion designed to support removeable media (the one that did not was called ATdisk. Both of them came with the PC AT.). By the w…

Thanks for all your help. I did go ahead and buy, then install the drive. Works beautifully. The transfer rate between drives is jaw dropping and I haven't dropped a frame in FCP y…

Hello. Just a quick question. Is it possible to remove region control in apple dvd players? Simply, I want to buy some UK only DVD releases and want to be able to play them here…

All the answers can be found at http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware/ Read the instructions carefully.

read this thread for more info: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Foru...ML/000189.html By the way you might like to search the forums before posting as there are many similar post…

Today a guy called XVI released the following items For Macintosh : - RPC-1 firmware for Matshita SR-8585 1X29 (the one on the latest G4) - RPC-1 firmware for Matshita SR-8184 AX3…

It works on my iMac DV. This is awesome. That guy XVI deserves accolades aplenty.

Yes, it works perfectly!!!!

I too took the plunge (or risk) but too my great joy everything went fine and it seems that I too now have a RPC-1 (region free) drive. Three cheers for XVI.

What is the best way to spread the word about this very, very helpful DVD crack in the Mac community? I don't think that the major sites can report on it due to legal issues... An…

Well,... I installed the new firmware and now everytime I insert a DVD and it is being mounted in the Finder, my system freezes. :-( Though, CDs still run well. Anyone can help??

Peter Pan, in order to help you, more information would be helpful: MacOS 9.0.4?, DVD player 2.2?, previous region code? etc.

Those of you who have it working, are you using just the firmware hack or the "Codefree DVD Player" as well?

P....I have used just the firmware hack. I still get the message that I only have "X" number of changes left when I stick in a different region DVD but the number of changes stays …

the procedure AusRob described is exactly what I am using. It works flawlessly. No need for a code free DVD player software. Cheers!

I just updated my DVSe fimrware with this update. After the first restart it gave me a heart attack, since it wouldn't recognise anything in the DVD/CD drive at all. A restart lat…

Adam.. I had the same problem as did several other people. I wouldn't worry about it. BTW out of about 40+ people that have reported that they have installed this update I have o…

I am completely new in the business, so I just simply downloaded a hacked software to avoid te region code ( maybe it wasn �t the one you all are talking about) and the result w…

Hi I tried the firmware patch on my iMac DV SE (bought in Feb 2000), the Matshita SR-8184 version, but it said that it couldn't update my DVD drive. Is there a reason for this?…

Well first of all you need to have your firmware updated to the highest Apple Version available before you do the region free update. I'm not sure if your DV will have shipped wit…