SATA DVD/CD R/W is recognized, but does not disply CD contents
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From: LURKER on 4 May 2010 15:23 Drive is new, but has sat on the shelf for several months. I installed it with my new MSI motherboard because it is SATA, and the MB only has 2 IDE ports which I have hard drives on. SATA Liteon DVD RW tested in and works in my other Windows XP system. The new MSI G31TM-P21 BIOS identified the drive. Windows gives it a drive letter. When I click to explore the drive, window opens, but never shows anything in it. I tried two CDs. I connected an external DVD via USB and it got the same drive letter (E) and works fine. I connect the troublesome Liteon DVD R/W drive to USB adapter, and it works fine. Note: BIOS shows the SATA drive to be ATAPI. Is that normal? Carl
From: LURKER on 4 May 2010 19:54
Interesting additional information, the two DVD drives are identical make and model. The one in the external enclosure is a retail package called "EZ-Dub" Mfg date September 2006. The other one is OEM version from my friendly computer store Mfg date Apr 2008. Carl On 5/4/2010 3:23 PM, LURKER wrote: > Drive is new, but has sat on the shelf for several months. > I installed it with my new MSI motherboard because it is SATA, and the > MB only has 2 IDE ports which I have hard drives on. > > SATA Liteon DVD RW tested in and works in my other Windows XP system. > > The new MSI G31TM-P21 BIOS identified the drive. > Windows gives it a drive letter. > > When I click to explore the drive, window opens, but never shows > anything in it. > I tried two CDs. > > I connected an external DVD via USB and it got the same drive letter (E) > and works fine. > > I connect the troublesome Liteon DVD R/W drive to USB adapter, and it > works fine. > > Note: > BIOS shows the SATA drive to be ATAPI. Is that normal? > > Carl |