Getting ext. DVD to play

The CD/DVD drive in this machine died and so in haste I replaced it with a HPDVD1040 external drive. My mac sees the drive. Will play and burn cd's, but when I try to play a dvd it gives me an error code of -70012 and comment that a valid dvd drive cannot be found. I spoke with HP and of course they do not support MAC. (go figure) They did say they thought it was the "global setting" that was the problem. After reading a few other "similar" situations here-is this a case that I may be able to reset the firmware of the drive? If so where do I find the firmware app to do this and how do I get the drive to reset? Your help would be appreciated.

There is a way to get DVD Player and Front Row to work with an external drive when an internal drive doesn't work.
1. You need a hex editor. I use 0xED: http://www.suavetech.com/0xed/0xed.html
2. Make a backup copy of /System/Library/Frameworks/DVDPlayback.framework/Versions/A/DVDPlayback.
3. You'll need to open 0xED as root to manipulate DVDPlayback. Use the following line in Terminal (assuming you installed 0xED in /Applications):
sudo "/Applications/0xED.app/Contents/MacOS/0xED"
It will prompt you for your password to launch as root.
4. 0xED will open (usually behind other open apps). Open DVDPlayback (not the backup) with 0xED.
5. Hit cmd-f to open the find/replace dialog. For Find, enter (without quotes) "internal". For Replace, enter "External". Make sure Ignore Case is checked. Hit Replace All. The bottom left of the window should state that 4 changes are made.
6. Save the file. Exit 0xED. DVD Player and Front Row will work with the external drive now.
Note: Any internal drive you add while DVDPlayback is patched this way will probably not work, especially without an external drive present.

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