My GSA 4081B drive has recently started giving me the focus/tracking error and toasting discs. I put it another machine, opened and cleaned the laser lens, and updated the firmware. Still get the same problem. I have read some different thread on some other boards I found via google, but nothing that has solved the problem. I read one instance of a UDMA(?) - PIO problem where the hardware setting was being set to PIO. I don't have that issue. The 2 machines I've had it in are: Dell P3 733 384 ram XP pro and MSI P4 3.0 Ghz 1 gig ddr400 ram XP pro Any suggestions besides using a ball peen hammer? edit: after cleaning/machine change to the MSI, one disc burned successfully. Then failures began again. Upgraded firmware and 2 failures at 2x and 4x.
Hey I've recently been getting this error and no settings have been changed on my computer. I researched and found out that updating the firmware to A110 should solve the problem, but it seems that I can't do so. My computer has now changed my dvd burner from being recognized as "HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B [FW A101]" to "AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device". I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it, but it still is consistantly being recognized as "AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device". Since it is being recognized as that, I am unable to update my firmware. If anyone has any idea how to fix this problem, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Hunter007 By the way, my burn's got to 86% before the error's occured.
Thats about how long it takes for mine to error. If I can't find a solution, I guess it's time to upgrade. I'm waiting for DVD-R DL, but can't find much info on it.
