Hi all, Any advice or thoughts welcome, before I launch this drive into next week! Having replaced an old but working DVD-ROM drive recently, then stuffed a MSI drive firmware upgrade, I installed a Liteon XJ-HD165H. This works fine, except that it will not read ANY DVD-R disks. I've tried 3 different makes, all written on my Pioneer 106, and one other make written on another drive. Normally the drive light flashes but it gets nothing (in fact it normally slaps the hell out of Explorer and I have to reboot or wait 10 minutes for Windows to recover). Occasionally it has let me view the contents, and then failed. All of these disks are read perfectly in my Pioneer 106. The Liteon reads retail dvds and CD-Rs with no problem. So far I've tried: Updating firmware to CH12 (latest) Used rpcde2.exe to remove/restore RPC-2 coding double-checked cables are tight Booting into 'clean 98' to check for conflicting software Updated to latest AMD driver pack Things I haven't tried yet: Swapping the drive onto Slave Trying it in another machine If anyone has any thoughts I'd welcome them. I can't believe that this drive wouldn't be DVD-R compatible? Is it possibly a duff drive, in which case why does it read commercial dvds and CDRs with no problem? TIA Gavin ============================= System Info: XP Pro SP1 AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1024 MB 2100 DDR MB: Gigabyte GA-7VAXP (VIA KT400 Chipset) Primary Master: Maxtor 80GB Primary Slave: Maxtor 80GB Secondary Master: Liteon XJ-HD165H (now firmware CH12) Secondary Slave: Liteon LTR-48246S CDRW On Board Raid (Promise PDC20276) used purely as Ultra 133 controller, no raid functions used. Primary Master: Maxtor 120GB Secondary Master: Pioneer DVR-105 DVD-RW
Chances are the liteon is broke. I replaced an old toshiba dvd rom recently with a liteon 16x (not sure about the model, but it was for like 39 bux). Reads dvd-r/ws and +r/w just dandy.
