OEM Blu Ray

[Phrehdd]

Months ago, I purchased a Blu Ray RW for my Mac Pro. It is SATA and in general works quite well.

However, I have had challenges where some Blu Ray Discs will not play at all. The unit attempts to get to the data but fails. I have tried it in OSX and in Fusion with XP (Where my ANYDVD HD resides) and neither work. I can play the Blu Ray Disc on my PS3.

The challenge I have is that the Blu Ray RW is OEM and I would guess that a firmware update could possibly help here. Anyone familiar with what to do for OEM hardware? Often I understand they wont take the firmware under the makers name. Ex - LG BD unit firmware will not work on a OEM/Other Name LG unit of the same kind.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Btw, anyone have a recommendation for a Blu Ray Reader or RW unit for my Mac Pro as a replacement? Again thanks!

- Phrehdd

[Tox]

a) You do not state which drive model you are talking about. I assume it's an LG because you said something about firmware and LG drives (though I don't really understand the word "Ex" there).
b) Where the heck do you buy OEM drives? OEM devices are for other manufacturers to build in their computers.
c) Please do not use "Blu-ray RW" as an abreviation for Blu-ray burner because it can be mistaken as "Blu-ray Rewritable" (which some people do not know is the wrong term for the rewritable Blu-ray Disc).

[Phrehdd]

a) You do not state which drive model you are talking about. I assume it's an LG because you said something about firmware and LG drives (though I don't really understand the word "Ex" there).
b) Where the heck do you buy OEM drives? OEM devices are for other manufacturers to build in their computers.
c) Please do not use "Blu-ray RW" as an abreviation for Blu-ray burner because it can be mistaken as "Blu-ray Rewritable" (which some people do not know is the wrong term for the rewritable Blu-ray Disc).

Hi Tox,

The drive was purchased long ago from Fast Mac. - 4x Blu Ray Writer. (I'll heed your words on RW).

Perhaps a better term would be a "rebranded" Blu Ray Writer.

Atapi BD B DH4BIS, Firmware 7111 is what shows up in the System Info.

It appears it might be a Lite On but alas, no support for it. Fast Mac was contacted for an issue of inability to play some discs and hearing a "knocking" sound as if it is trying to line up the disc. They never responded.

Update - I went to a local electronics store and purchased the LG Blu Ray/HD DVD reader GGC-H20L. I installed it and after a couple of small adjustments, it plays within XP under Fusion and played from the get go under OSX. I shared this with Fast Mac and I'll be curious if they respond. I guess in the future, no rebranded or OEM hardware for me.

- Phrehdd

[Tox]

I don't find any resourcs on a drive model DH4BIS.

The LG GGC-H20L is a good drive. I own one myself. :) Maybe it's the better decision not to buy special Mac hardware but to buy common PC hardware as it's a lot cheaper anyway and probably you will get more support, too.

[Phrehdd]

I don't find any resourcs on a drive model DH4BIS.

The LG GGC-H20L is a good drive. I own one myself. :) Maybe it's the better decision not to buy special Mac hardware but to buy common PC hardware as it's a lot cheaper anyway and probably you will get more support, too.

Well much to my chagrin, while OSX readily reads this drive... XP Pro under Fusion does not. I also tried a Lite On branded reader and OSX could not see it.

Going to be a long few days sorting this out. Does anyone have a Blu Ray Reader or Burner working well under Fusion running XP? Pity the OEM unit I have has troubles with some discs otherwise it worked very well and fairly quick with AnyDVD HD.

- Phrehdd

[cgguy]

You might want to check apple support. I've been running this drive with OSX 10.5.2+ with XP Pro and 1.3 (now 2.0) Fusion. I can read/burn cd/dvd's in OSX, and rip my Blu/HDDVD in Fusion. Though I usually boot into XP Pro to rip or view strait from a disk because it's much faster.

Caveat: this is not true mac pro, but it's running vanilla kernel. If I can run it, I would think you should be able to also.

[Phrehdd]

You might want to check apple support. I've been running this drive with OSX 10.5.2+ with XP Pro and 1.3 (now 2.0) Fusion. I can read/burn cd/dvd's in OSX, and rip my Blu/HDDVD in Fusion. Though I usually boot into XP Pro to rip or view strait from a disk because it's much faster.

Caveat: this is not true mac pro, but it's running vanilla kernel. If I can run it, I would think you should be able to also.

Is it going to SATA on the board or external with USB2/Firewire?

Thanks

- Phrehdd