DVD RW Drive Showing as a CD Drive???

Quincy_3

Any updates from http://www.emprex.com/ or the software needed.

steve_r123

Quincy wrote:

Any updates from http://www.emprex.com/ or the software needed.

Yep have already tried that. Even found a previous firmware version and tried that too. Neither made any difference whatsoever.

wonderfullife_2

Hi
If all else fails, I would try this, its a check to see if the ASPI driver files are installed, if you had Nero you could use the info tool, this would give you all the info about your drive, I suppose you could always download a trial version, it just might help to shed more light on your problem.

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/driverdetail.jsp?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=/Product/ASPI-4.70&filekey=aspi_471a2.exe

Quincy_3

Have you a Via chipset that may make a difference.

steve_r123

Quincy wrote:

Have you a Via chipset that may make a difference.

How would I find that out? It's an AMD Athlon 2800 or something if that is what you mean?

steve_r123

wonderfullife wrote:

Hi
If all else fails, I would try this, its a check to see if the ASPI driver files are installed, if you had Nero you could use the info tool, this would give you all the info about your drive, I suppose you could always download a trial version, it just might help to shed more light on your problem.

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/driverdetail.jsp?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=/Product/ASPI-4.70&filekey=aspi_471a2.exe

I did get this drive working about 6 months ago, but the pc has just been rebuilt , and this drive has never worked since. It did have Nero on it before, so I'm wondering if Nero fixed it last time. I'm just trying to find my copy of Nero now to install it

Quincy_3

Download and run PC wizard that should tell you your chipset

http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php or just try Start Run type dxdiag

steve_r123

Quincy wrote:

Download and run PC wizard that should tell you your chipset

http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php or just try Start Run type dxdiag

It says my chipset is Nvidia nForce.

When I look into the DVD drive in pcwizard it tells me the following.....

Disk Type : CD-Rom Data
Peripheral Type : ATAPI
Model : DVDRW IDE 16X
Recordable : Yes
Free Space : 0%

steve_r123

and this..... all seems fine....

General Information :
IDE Controller : Nvidia Corp nForce ATA Controller

Informations CD-Rom DVDRW IDE 16X :
IDE Controller : nForce ATA Controller
IDE Channel : #2 - Master Drive
Manufacturer : DVDRW
Model : DVDRW IDE 16X
Revision : VER A082
Interface : ATA
IORDY : Yes
LBA Mode : Yes
DMA Mode : Yes
Multiword DMA Mode : 2
PIO Mode : PIO 4
UDMA Mode max. : 4 (ATA-66)
UDMA Mode Enabled : 4 (ATA-66)
Rotation Control : CLV

CD-R Read : Yes
CD-RW Reading : Yes
DVD-Rom Reading : Yes
DVD-RAM Reading : No
DVD-R Reading : Yes
DVD-RW Reading : Yes
DVD+R Reading : Yes
DVD+RW Reading : Yes
DVD+R DL Reading : Yes
DVD BD Reading : No

CD-R Writing : Yes
CD-RW Writing : Yes
DVD-RAM Writing : No
DVD-R Writing : Yes
DVD+R Writing : Yes
DVD-RW Writing : Yes
DVD+RW Writing : Yes
DVD+R DL Writing : Yes
DVD BD Writing : No

Method 2 : Yes
CD-Audio Support : Yes
MultiSession or Photo-CD : Yes
Side Change Capable : No

Reading CD-Rom : 48x (8450 KB/s)
Reading DVD-Rom : 16x

Writing CD-R : 48x (8450 KB/s)
Writing CD-RW : 30x
Writing DVD-R : 10x
Writing DVD-RW : 6x
Writing DVD+R : 10x
Writing DVD+RW : 6x
Writing DVD+R DL : 4x

steve_r123

Ok, so I've installed Nero and its now all working fine..... have burnt a DVD and everything..... I'm happy its finally working, but its very irritating not knowing what was wrong.

Thanks to all that helped and gave me new direction