I bought a Bluray drive recently, to go into my media centre PC. I installed it, and… it didn’t work. Big surprise.
So, if you have a Pioneer BDC-SO2BK (or BDC-202BK, as the Pioneer website calls it – the box it comes in uses the former), you’ll need to enable AHCI support in your BIOS, or it just won’t work. Or at least, it didn’t for me on an Asus M2N-VM HDMI motherboard.
You’ll probably find, if using Vista, you can’t boot any longer. So make sure you do this first:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976
And that’s it. Otherwise, it seems to behave, and plays Bluray discs fine. I have a little bit of stuttering, but the CPU usage is only around 25%. There is, however, a lot of hard disk thrashing, so I’m going to fix and defrag the swapfile and see what happens.
But so far so good. I just need to get some other little niggles sorted, and it’ll all be wonderful.