DVD-ROM Roundup Vol.4 - Page 15

Hacked Firmware for LiteOn

We flashed the drive to the v9S19 firmware revision, which is not official but does support 16X DVD SL reading and 10X DL. We then repeated some tests in order to find out if there were any differences.

In all cases, the patched LiteOn was faster with the hacked firmware than with the official.

In order to check if a patched firmware will affect the reading ability of a drive we repeat our DVD error correction tests.

ABEX TDR-821

ABEX TDR-825

ABEX TDR-841

ABEX TDR-845

ABEX TDV-541

ABEX TDV-545

As you can see, there is no difference in this series of tests.

• DVD Pressed SL / DVD Pressed DL / DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD+R / DVD+RW

Using Kprobe software, we managed to successfully remove the RPC lock.