External DVD drive restrictions

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Rickles

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#293407 19-Jan-2022 10:54

A colleague is looking to get an external DVD drive, and there are plenty of options.

However, a couple of sales sites say "can not be used to install programs on Samsung, Mac, SONY, Fujitsu, Toshiba, NEC."

Why would this be?

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#2853311 19-Jan-2022 11:42

Sounds like nonsense :-)
Have you got a link to that ?

Perhaps it was replacement INTERNAL DVD drives you looked at ?
Or perhaps it was a garbage drive that couldnt read dual layer disks ?

Just buy one of these
https://www.pbtech.co.nz/category/components/optical-drives/external-cd-dvd-drives?o=lowest_price

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#2853369 19-Jan-2022 11:56

Here is an example ... USB External DVD/CD Reader Drive CD Player 24x | Trade Me Marketplace

I've had a cheapie drive for ages and always worked on a Toshiba.

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#2853419 19-Jan-2022 13:08

Can only think of one of 2 reasons.

It's a ripoff drive with cloned hardware ID or seiral chip from one of those manufacturers so is blacklisted in the OEMs images (like the fdti that were via MS)

It's a high rated USB and they can't guarantee the older ones of those can do it via a single USB.

Or it's a really really bad english translation and doesn't mean anything

Rickles

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#2853456 19-Jan-2022 13:42

>Can only think of one of 2 reasons.<

That's three, but I agree 😜, and colleague probably never forseeably using it on one of those manufacturers anyway.

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#2853538 19-Jan-2022 15:02

Rickles:

>Can only think of one of 2 reasons.<

That's three, but I agree 😜, and colleague probably never forseeably using it on one of those manufacturers anyway.

Bad English translation perhaps... 😬

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#2853639 19-Jan-2022 16:57

I went to a local recycle centre and picked up an old laptop that had a dvd r/w drive in it for $25 , bought the usb adapter off aliexpress for $5.

$30 cheap external dvd drive :-)

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