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Great!
I will try with my native Vista! I'll let you know!

Thanks for your post!

Any way to do this if you're only booting MacOS?

How exactly does the RPC2 Auto Reset work? How useful is it if you don't live in Region 2 - for example, in Australia (Region 4)?

read the FAQ

I've got a macbook pro with the GSA-S10N drive and tried updating the firmware with MCSE and the dell A101 firmware for the drive. I added the auto-reset patch in MCSE to the firmware and ran the exe (under a vista install on boot camp) and it all seemed to work ok, but in device manager the drive still has just one region change remaining. When i rebooted after the firmware upgrade vista reinstalled drivers for the device.

As I understand it the drive should have the five region resets available when the machine is restarted but it doesn't reset at the moment. Is there anything else I should do to get the reset of the count working?

Have you understood HOW rpc-1 works?

Please read the FAQ.

As far as I understand it the autoreset patch in MCSE is rpc-2. It is a firmware patch that should reset the region change count to 5 every time the machine reboots. Since there is no rpc1 firmware for this drive I thought this was the alternative way to unlock my drive from region protection. Am I missing something?

Please post the Discinfo output for your drive here, make sure tools like AnyDVD, DVD43, Region+CSS FREE, etc. are DISABLED.

Hi i have successfully flash my macbook HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N firmware from ap08 to dell a101 with msce patch.
i have also tried and confirmed that the rpc1 patch work and the dvd drive will automatically reset it region code to 4 when the system reboot. however 1 point to take note is that dell a101 firmware will report an error during the patch and informed that it is unsuccessful. just ignore and reboot and you can check from the system profile for the firmware version.

Thanks for the feedback. You mean you got an error message when flashing the patched firmware, but it was flashed anyway ?

Question - does this work in native OS X (leopard) or only in boot camp/emulated windows?

needs to be in boot camp

My new Macbook has a GSA S10, but the firmware version listed for it is BP10 - is there a de-regioning upgrade for that, please?

there cannot even be a possibility without an official release of a firmware

Why is that?

how do you plan on patching the firmware?

Hi

Just got a new MBP and it ships with this drive, release AP12:
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N:

Firmware Revision: AP12
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

Would it be possible to flash this drive with the older Dell firmware?

I believe this drive unlike Matshita drive can by easily bypassed simply using VLC ... is this correct?

read deathg0d post on this page, remember there is no way back to how the drive is now, if you do

I don't understand the moderator's questions - I'm not a technician, I'm an ordinary user; perhaps he or she is speaking to people with a greater level of technical knowledge than mine.

It seems that my only solution is to ignore the DVD-R drive on my expensive Mac and buy a region-free external drive to plug into it.

I'll also be writing to Apple to protest at this nonsense, and suggest that others do the same.

Apple's stated desire is for groovy globalised customers - but anyone who travels or who has friends around the world is at a disadvantage with this silly region coding. At least, any *Mac* user is.

basically to patch this firmware to rpc1, you have to physically have it or be able to download it, you cannot patch it on the drive, there has been no official release of any firmware, so it cannot be done, hope that explains it a bit better

Ah, I understand now. Thanks.

I've written to Apple, and suggest that other customers should do the same - if we don't tell the company how we feel about this, the company will think we're perfectly happy with it.

As the child of an actor who worked all over the world, usually in obscure movies, I'm particularly hard hit by this.

Feel lucky that it's an LG drive and not a Matshita, as you can use VLC instead to watch a movie

I read this, he patched his drive from AP08 to the Dell's one.

This doesn't answer my question as if it will work with my drive currently running AP12...

Thanks
JY

your firmware is just newer that's all, with any crossflash we can only say user beware, risks are your's, and you understand the warranty will be void



Apple and other manufacturers will not take one bit of notice, i'm afraid, the law's have been set, and they stick to them

I tried the VLC business, but no, it doesn't work for me, unfortunately.