XBOX-HQ.COM - Hitachi-LG GDR-8050L DVD Drive In Xbox

Microsoft is now using a new DVD-ROM drive in the Xbox console. Frequent modders or people with a very recent Xbox probably already saw this new drive for some time. The new drive is made by Hitachi and LG ('H-L'), the model is GDR-8050L. The new drive appears in some Xbox consoles manufactured since end september 2004 (Xbox v1.6/v1.6b) and the build date of the drive is September 2004 or later. The drive has a white connector cable instead of yellow and the tray looks a lot like the one on the Thomson drive but with a wider cutout.

From reports in other forums the drive seems to work fine with most DVD-+R, DVD-RW and CDRW media, but fails to boot most CD-R discs. There's a forum discussion about this new DVD-ROM drive where they are also trying to find the PC drive from Hitachi and/or LG that matches the hardware of this new Xbox drive. If there's such a drive the firmware from the H-L Xbox drive could be flashed on the PC-drive. This PC-drive could then be used as cheap fully working (also boot orignal Xbox discs) replacement drive, like done with the discontinued Samsung 616T PC-driveSource:http://www.modchipquebec.com/