Hardware FYI (Memorex DVD+/-RW)

[Travis Roy]

I got an external Memorex True8Xn drive a few months back and I found 
out some interesting stuff.

It's a rebranded NEC2100A drive. There's a firmware hack to support the 
following:

Region Free
Bitsetting (burn DVD+R(W) discs as DVD-ROM letting them work in any player)
Rip Lock (removes the limits on how fast you can rip music)
Dual Layer

Bitsetting and the dual layer were the big ones for me.