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Sony/NEC Optiarc OEM AD-7201S 20x SATA DVD Writer (With Lightscribe) Help

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  1. deadone36

    deadone36 Member

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    hi all, i recetly recieved as a gift from my son a litescribe writer, it was failing to burn anything and didnt even show up as a device most of the time. since then they have replaced the drive with this one.
    Sony/NEC Optiarc OEM AD-7201S 20x SATA DVD Writer (With Lightscribe)
    i just cant seem to be able to get it installed as such.
    i purchased a SATA cable
    Code:
    http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11220704/Sata_Cable.jpg
    as it didnt come with it and i also got a molex converter
    Code:
    http://img.hexus.net/v2/dvdoctor/technobackground/sata/Molex-SATA_TN.jpg
    for it as well..
    now how do i go about getting it installed. i have tried every possible cable configuration within my tower but to no avail.
    am i missing something. sometimes when i use different cable configs it shows in my bios as listed but my pc dont want to start up or if it does it takes an age to bootup then everything is slow to open if it opens at all.
    there are no switches etc on the back of the drive. do i need to make changes in the bios for it to work
    please help me.

    also incase you need the info im running vista ultimate

    big big thanx for taking time out
     
  2. dailun

    dailun Active member

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    1. Make sure that your PC isn't configured to try to boot from the optical drive. It will wait a while before it gives up. Set the BIOS boot order to boot from the hard drive.

    2. If Windows doesn't see the drive that's a whole different problem.

    I will never run Vista so I'm afraid I can't provide specific help.
    There should be no jumpers to set with a SATA drive.
     
  3. deadone36

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    thanx for the reply m8, apprecaite the help..
    im pretty sure that my current liteon boots from the drive.
    so i will need to have it set as hdd, 1st drive and new drive i want added for it to work..

    i shall try this over the weekend as i will be away.
    ill get back to you through this topic and let you no the outcome.

    thanx again
     
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    Yes, for testing purposes I would delete all of the settings to boot from the optical drive and just boot from the hdd for speed. We are trying to eliminate the obvious things first.
     
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    Hi just a question,

    How did you connect the Sata DVD Writer with your System unit's parallel ATA?
     
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    @poi5on

    I see nothing in the TC's post that indicates that he connected it to a PATA port.

    Thread hijacking is frowned upon. Please stick with your own post.

     
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    ok buddy sorry about the late reply. been very busy, anyway i managed to have another few goes at trying to get it to work.
    i changed the bios to boot from 1 hdd, 2 floppy 3 cd rom
    didnt want to go past the boot screen this way.
    i still cant figure it out. i do however have the manual for my bios etc if this is any help to you i can upload it to a free host
    also do i connect both the SATA cable + SATA power cable ty my new drive, if so this is what im doing.


    this is my current bios configuration if it helps.

    IDE Channel 0 Master --- Maxtor Hdd
    IDE Channel 0 Slave --- None
    IDE Channel 1 Master --- LiteOn Dvdrw
    IDE Channel 1 Slave --- None
    IDE Channel 2 Master --- None
    IDE Channel 3 Master --- None

    1st boot -- cd rom
    2nd -- Floppy
    3rd -- Hdd


    thanx for the help once again

    mick

     
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    dailun Active member

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    I went back to your original thread.

    From what you are describing, this drive appears to be behaving the same as the first one.

    What is your motherboard make/model? Easier for me to find the manual.
     
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  9. deadone36

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    hi, thanx for the speedy reply, anyway here is the complete manual for my pc.
    http://rapidshare.com/files/192205274/adventpc_manual.rar

    and if you dont want tothat here are my complete pc specs

    Advent T9002 PC

    CPU AMD Athlon 64 processor 3400+
    BIOS Phoenix-Award BIOS. Press the Delete key to enter
    Motherboard ECS 760-M Rev:1.1A
    Memory 1.5gig DDR RAM - PC3200
    Hard Drive 200GB Maxtor Maxtor 6B200P0 -- with 500gig philips and 1tb buffalo externals
    CD Drive Lite-On DVDRW SHOW-1633S
    Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive fitted
    Video Card ati radeon x1500 series
    Sound Card Realtek AC'97 audio
    Speakers - my own surround system
    Network Card Realtek 8139 / 810x (Onboard)
    Modem SmartLink 56K V.92 PCI modem
    Ports - Front 1x 7-in-1 Card Reader
    1x IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
    2x USB 2.0
    1x Headphone
    1x Microphone
    Ports - Back 1x PS/2 Keyboard
    1x PS/2 Mouse
    1x Serial
    1x Parallel
    1x VGA
    4x USB 2.0
    1x IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
    1x LAN
    1x Microphone
    1x Line-out
    1x Line-in
    1x Modem
    1x Telephone
    Case Jupiter chassis
    Keyboard Advent PS/2 keyboard
    Mouse Advent PS/2 mouse




    Motherboard Information
    Form Factor: Micro-ATX Size, 244mm*244mm
    CPU Support:
    Socket 754 for AMD K8 Athlon 64 processor
    High-performance Hyper Transport CPU interface
    Support transfer rate of 1600/1200/800/400 mega-transfers per second
    System Memory:
    2x 184-pin DDR DIMM socket support up to 2 GB
    Support DDR400/333/266/200 DDR SDRAM
    Chipset:
    SiS 760 & 964
    North Bridge: SiS 760
    South Bridge: SiS 964
    Audio Chipset: Realtek ALC658 6-channel audio CODEC
    Video: Integrated SiS Ultra256 2D/3D Graphics
    Bios Specifications:
    Award BIOS with 4Mb Flash ROM
    Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI
    Supports ACPI revision 1.0 specification
    Internal Connectors:
    1x 20-pin ATX Power Supply Connector & 4-pin 12V Connector
    1x FDD connector supports two 360K~2.88MB FDDs
    2x IDE connectors
    2x USB 2.0 headers support additional 4 USB Ports
    1x SPDIF out header
    1x Front panel switch/LED header
    1x Front panel audio header
    CD in/ AUX in headers
    CPUFAN/CASFAN connectors
     
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    OK, here's what you have according to the ECS website
    STORAGE Support by SiSĀ® 964
    4 x Ultra DMA133/100/66 devices
    2 x Serial ATA devices
    RAID0 & RAID1 configuration

    You know what I'm beginning to think? I don't think you can connect an optical drive to these SATA ports, and that the SATA is only for a RAID HDD config and that's why you're having this problem.

    I just looked at the manual and it say NOTHING about supporting SATA optical devices (even that in itself doesn make sense).

    In fact, the SATA controller on this mobo is a SiS 964 SATA RAID controller that is apparently ONLY for SATA RAID HDD arrays.

    At this point, I'd suggest opening a support ticket with ECS and verifying that optical drives are supported with this motherboard.

    There may be some that disagree with my conclusion, but that's all I can come up with considering the "odd" configuration of the mobo.

    I'm pretty sure you will need to get another optical drive, one that is PATA and not SATA.
     
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    thanx, ok i have left all the comments i made here on the ECW site.
    will await there reply, i will also reply back here and let you no as well.
    i hope thats not the case as my 30day return has expired and this would be the second drive i have had, maybe also if this is the case then the original drive i also got from the same place was not faulty at all.

    anyway big thanx for the help, its was more than appreciated :)
     
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    BTW, I did a quick google. There appear to be several discussions of problems connecting SATA optical drives to this controller.
     
  13. deadone36

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    yeah i googled it as well, to be honest im not the greatest at pc tech stuff and i just dont understand it all thus the reason i came here for help lol
     

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