DVDs can be played on the Toshiba SD-R2212 CD-RW/DVD drive.

Making the P2120 non region coded

The SD-R2212 DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive supports the current RPC phase 2 industry specifications. This means that when the DVD-ROM drive ships from the factory it is set to the region for which the Operating System was intended. In other words the drive is set to support the Region 1 (North America) Operating System and will only play Region 1 (North America) DVD-Video movie discs.

As I live in NewZealand (Region 4) where we also have a lot of Region 1 DVDs this is no good, so I've converted the drive to be non region coded.

Had to do some of this with Windows as there doesn't seem to be the utilities for Linux. (Couldn't get Rpcmgr to work for me.)

Basically I just followed jsleung's excellent instructions.

The link to cdvdinfo.zip was broken, so I used driveinfo.

I created the bootable CD on Linux (I don't have CD burning software for Windows). Didn't really know what I was doing, but this worked.

• dd if!!!/dev/fd0 of=boot_floppy.img ibs10000 - copied the floppy image mkisofs -r -b boot_floppy.img -c boot.catalog -o bootcd.iso . - created an El Torito ISO image cdrecord -v bootcd.iso - burnt it to disk

Booted with the CD. Flashed the firmware. Rebooted and checked with driveinfo22. Everything looks like it worked!

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