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Schizophrenic Lite-On Burners

As you may recall, I purchased a Lite-On LH-20A1S a while ago. As it turns out, that wasn’t entirely accurate.

In fact, the device identified itself as the illustrious DH-20A1S. While there is no mention of them on the Lite-On website, the DHs appear to be rebadged versions of the LHs, which I assume makes them targeted at system builders. Never having bought any Lite-On equipment before, I don’t know if it’s okay for Codima to sell a DH model separately, let alone call it an LH.

That being said, after some Google-fu, I can be pretty sure that the DH-20A1S is in fact identical to the LH-20A1S. There is however an inconvenience: since it identifies itself as a generic DVD burner, you cannot use Lite-On’s firmware updaters. And by “cannot”, I mean you can, but you need to grab modified ones from codeguys.rpc1.org and use the Flash Utility from that site. After a reboot, you’ve got yourself a real Lite-On, with the latest firmware—which is a good thing, because pretty much every piece of DVD packaging tells you to consult the manufacturer of your burner for the latest firmware.

I guess that’s what I get for buying cheap affordable hardware.

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