[ltp] NEC ND-6650

[Noah Dain]

On 1/25/06, Ren=E9 Castberg <Rene@castberg.org> wrote:
> I have done something similar for my brother who was using a Toshiba
> laptop. I bought a cheap compaq cd burner and took apart his old cd-rom
> drive, Modded the front of the drive by trimming it abit. Unfortunaly i
> found out that his laptop would only accept a cdrom drive that was in
> the slave state and not in the master as this cd rom was, after
> searching a bit on the net i found that i could solder 2 pins together
> and thus putting it in the slave configuration.
>
> Unfortunatly i don't have any experience with thinkpads, but though i
> could give you some insight if it doesn't work first time around.
>
> Ren=E9
>
> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 06:55 +0000, Dale Amon wrote:
> > I recently bought an ND-6650 (slimline IDE) because it
> > was cheap and can burn dual layer DVD in something that
> > looks close to an ultrabay form factor. Not quite, but
> > I'm now looking to see if there are ways to 'make it work'.
> >
> > First and most obvious, I'd have to cut out a bit of
> > the rectangular plastic front on the lower right... but
> > the more difficult part is finding out if there is an
> > adaptor that will fit on the back and allow it to connect
> > as an Ultrabay 2000 device in a T22. I have no idea, but
> > to get dual layer burner capability on my laptop for under
> > $100, I figure it is worth a shot and this is the place
> > to ask the question.
> >
>
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I upgraded my R40's cdrom to a nec dual layer burner (ND-6500A)
several months back.  I just used the adapter that came with the
original.  The original was an LG, and it's in an ultrabay2000.

Also, if you get stuck with master/slave complications, you can just
flash the firmware with something like binflash (supports flashing
under linux!).  I just did this the other day on my ND-6500A to make
it region-free and remove the rip-stop throttling on video dvds,
mainly just because I could.  ;-D

http://binflash.cdfreaks.com/

good place to start when looking for firmwares, hacked and originals:
http://codeguys.rpc1.org/index.html

some nec firmwares: http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/

--
Noah Dain
"Single failures can occur for a variety of reasons that have nothing
to do with a hardware defect, such as cosmic radiation ..." - IBM
Thinkpad R40 maintenance manual, page 25