Dvd-r

I just flashed the DVD drive in my G5 to make it region free. After researching I found out that to do this I needed to use my PC. So I moved the drive over and flashed it. I did receive one error message: something to the effect of "Error: original kernel still open!" I wasn't sure exactly what this meant or how to fix it so i put the drive back in my Mac. Now I can't open the drive.

"Why did you do that?" some of you may be asking. I buy a lot of DVD's that never have distribution here. To do this I needed a region free drive. I.E. flashing. I.E. I may have screwed up.

Anyhow, if anyone has a suggestion as to what is wrong please respond. It'd be greatly appreciated.

I've never had an issue with flashing stuff in my PC before so I figured Mac would be no different. Anyhow, it's back in my PC and I think the issue is that the kernel is still open. I don't know how to close it though. Arg! Things shouldn't be this complicated.

Nope. Not yet. Again I think it has to do with the kernel being open. And the Apple comment wasn't meant to be slamming them or anything, just a note that they make it complicated to do firmware patching (or so I've read) thus forcing a user to move the drive to a PC. That's all I meant.

I fixed the problem if anyone is curious. Apparently Pioneer has a forced fallback firmware driver that installed and fixed the issue I was having. I managed to do the update at that point.