PowerBook G4 SuperDrive Speed Bump Hack

Posted by pudge on Sunday August 17, 2003 @11:58AM from the do-not-try-this-at-home dept.

George Wright writes "A guy called cynikal has managed to hack the firmware on the PowerBook G4's "Superdrive" (the Panasonic UJ-815A slimline slot loading DVD-R/RW burner) to enable DVD-R burning at 2x (instead of 1x), DVD-RW burning at 1x (instead of it being disabled), CD-R burning at 16x (instead of 8x) and CD-RW burning at 8x (instead of 4x). Thanks a lot cynikal! The drive now reports as a UJ-815A instead of a UJ-815, and has a firmware revision of D101 instead of the DOC4, DOCB or DWDB the PowerBooks came with. A firmware downgrader can be obtained from the same place to downgrade back to DOCB if you want to, and there is a discussion thread."

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Re:I did it by Eat+Shit+A-Hole · 2003-08-17 12:32 · Score: -1, Troll

Dont forget the heatsinks buddy burning at that speed could start a FIRE! -Eat Shit A-Hole

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Sorry was in bad mood when made account :)
Re:I did it by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-17 12:34 · Score: -1, Troll

I tried it on my Wallstreet rev 1 with a MCE CD-R/RW burner and I still can't burn DVDs. Besides that, my cat threw up on the carpet immediately after installation. No wonder Apple didn't release this.