Sony Blu-Ray player drive replacement
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From: Arfa Daily on 1 Nov 2009 11:35 "David Farber" <farberbear.unspam(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:4aec9f07$0$28776$bd467cd0(a)news.dslextreme.com... > Andy Cuffe wrote: >> I have a Sony DBP-S301 Blu-Ray player with a bad drive. It's >> basically a standard IDE Blu-Ray drive. I would like to replace the >> drive with a PC BD drive, but it refuses to play any discs, even >> though it can at least read them (with the original drive it says "no >> disc". >> >> Is this a case of the drive being married to the player, or will it >> only work with the specific model drive it originally came with? Most >> DVD players that use an IDE drive will work with any computer DVD-ROM >> drive. >> >> Does Sony provide any way to marry a new drive to the player outside >> the factory? Is there a service menu? >> Andy Cuffe >> >> acuffe(a)gmail.com > > Hi Andy, > > I can tell you about a similar problem I encountered with an Alesis > ML-9600 which is a hard disk recorder. The CD player failed to read the > disk. Looking at the drive it appeared to be a standard Sony drive you > would see in any PC. I called Alesis and asked them if I could just put > any CD drive in there. I was sent a list of compatible players for that > unit. The firmware in the machine will only recognize a specific brand of > CD player. I'm guessing that in your situation, the same may hold true. > > Good luck. > -- > David Farber > David Farber's Service Center > L.A., CA > I agree with David. I'm a bit surprised at your findings that "Most DVD players that use an IDE drive will work with any computer DVD-ROM drive" as over the years, I've found this to be seldom the case on ones that I've worked on. Most often, the drives, although appearing to be perfectly standard IDE units from well known manufacturers, are actually OEM versions that have an additional few bytes of data in their identifier, that makes them specific to the machine that they are fitted to, and which looks for that extra info, at boot up. Arfa
From: Andy Cuffe on 1 Nov 2009 17:19
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:35:31 -0000, "Arfa Daily" <arfa.daily(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > >I agree with David. I'm a bit surprised at your findings that > >"Most DVD players that use an IDE drive will work with any computer DVD-ROM >drive" > I guess I've been lucky then. The few times I've tried it, it has worked fine, even on a Sony DVD recorder. I did manage to come up with a solution to this problem. I have a pile of Playstation 3 parts, including a couple of drives. The drives are completely different, but I found that they use the same optical pickup as this player. I swapped the pickup into my bad drive, and now it seems to be reading discs fine. Andy Cuffe acuffe(a)gmail.com |