Adrian´s Rojak Pot has posted a review on the 12X ASUS E162 DVD-ROM drive.
The reason I´m mentioning this is because the E612 is RPC II. You are only allowed to change the drive´s region settings 5 times before it becomes permanently locked. Installing the drive in another computer will not remove the region-locked setting. However, the manufacturer also has 5 times to change the region setting and that all amounts to 10 times. Once the count is up, your drive will be hardware-locked and that´s permanent.Read more