From: James <ja...@pi...> - 2001-12-08 20:32:39
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[08.12.01 18:22 +0100] Guenter Bartsch wrote: | Hi Mark, | | On 8 Dec 2001, mark wrote: | | > I ve just bought a new dvd/cdrw drive and kept getting the error Get | > Key/failed, so I ran the region set utility and set it to region 2 (for | > the uk) | > And now it won't even read a normal cd or even boot from one. | | If all that doesn't help I'd consider this drive simply broken and I'd | return it to the retailer and ask for a working one. | | AFAIK sending the regionset commands shouldn't harm the drive, these | commands are afaik well-defined and afaik it is completely legal to set | the region, in fact, you have to do so to use the drive anyway. Also, the people in the shop aren't going to probe it and say "hmm, you used a region-setting program and broke the drive.". They'll just say "you want a replacement or a refund?". They didn't make it, so they don't care (but if they ask, it was broken when you got it and don't even mention you've run any region-setting programs). -- Why are we in this handbasket, and where is it going? 6AD6 865A BF6E 76BB 1FC2 | www.piku.org.uk/public-key.asc E4C4 DEEA 7D08 D511 E149 | jjj.cvxh.bet.hx wn...@cv...t.hx (rot13'd) |