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
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.
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David Farber
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L.A., CA