I have a bunch of HD-DVDs and I wouldn't like to re-buy them.
I used a HD-DVD drive out of an Xbox. You had to grab 3.3 V directly from the PSU which worked well but I seemed to have killed the drive on a recent rebuild of the machine it was in.
I then bought a HD-DVD+Blu Ray combo drive "HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW GGC-H20L". I have heard reports that it doesn't read certain disks, but it actually is more complicated. The thing gets stuck. I reads all HD-DVDs that I feed it eventually but only once and then it always says "no medium found" until a non-deterministic number of hard powercycles. Resets of SATA seem to do nothing.
I will see whether there's a newer firmware out there but the fact that the number of powercycles is nondeterministic makes me thing that it won't cut it.
I can't seem to find those drives out of an Xbox at reasonable prices right now.
Just putting this out here to brainstorm. Any thoughts?
I used a HD-DVD drive out of an Xbox. You had to grab 3.3 V directly from the PSU which worked well but I seemed to have killed the drive on a recent rebuild of the machine it was in.
I then bought a HD-DVD+Blu Ray combo drive "HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW GGC-H20L". I have heard reports that it doesn't read certain disks, but it actually is more complicated. The thing gets stuck. I reads all HD-DVDs that I feed it eventually but only once and then it always says "no medium found" until a non-deterministic number of hard powercycles. Resets of SATA seem to do nothing.
I will see whether there's a newer firmware out there but the fact that the number of powercycles is nondeterministic makes me thing that it won't cut it.
I can't seem to find those drives out of an Xbox at reasonable prices right now.
Just putting this out here to brainstorm. Any thoughts?