Optical Drive FAQ

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PC DVD Drives

Region-free => RCP-1
Not region-free => RCP-2

Q: How do I know if my drive is region free or not?
A: Use this utility here. (http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/dvdf/driveinfo11.exe)

Q: Which DVD drive can do multi zone?
A:

Acer

Aopen:
Aopen 1648 (http://digilander.iol.it/firmware2/Ao1648.exe)

Asus
Button trick (http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware/e616.htm) or RCP-1 firmware for V1.0 Drive (http://digilander.iol.it/firmware2/e616_10p.zip)

BTC

Panasonic

Samsung

Sony
Sony DDU-1621 (BTC BDV-316B OEM drive)S1p3(older) (http://digilander.iol.it/firmware2/1621s1p3.zip) or S1p6(newer) (http://digilander.iol.it/firmware2/1621s1p6.zip)

Q: Where can I get a multi zone firmware for my drive?
A: Here (http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware)

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PC CD-RW Drives

Q: Which drive can do a perfect backup of my CD?
A: Check our this website, http://www.sd2.does.it/ It containts all the information on drives that can do SD2.

Check out this site, http://elby.ch/english/products/clone_cd/writers/a.html for clone CD support.

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