Re: External USB2.0 DVD-RW does not recognize any disk (USB1.1 is fine)

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From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 09/27/04


Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:11:15 -0700

XP has no issues with USB 2.0. It is more likely the fault of your
PCMCIA card. You may want to check for newer drivers for the card or
try installing it in the other slot (if you have two). My Dell Inspiron
7000 had a bad bottom slot, but the top one worked flawlessly. You may
have something similar :)

----
Nathan McNulty
Genady wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an external DVD-RW drive (bought the drive and the case
> separately).
> When I connected the drive to USB1.1 port, everything was fine.
> 
> Then I have bought a USB2.0 PCMCIA card and connected the DVD-RW to
> the USB2.0
> port. Windows now cannot *read* any disk I put in the drive (not to
> mention burning anything). When I connect the drive back to the USB1.1
> port, everything is fine with reading (but I can't burn, because it's
> slow!).
> 
> I have read the posts about possible USB2.0 issues in WindowsXP, but
> non seems to help. Another interesting point is that just before
> Windows installed the USB2.0 drivers it was accessing the DVD-RW using
> USB1.1 protocol, and for that 2 minutes I could read disks from that
> drive.
> 
> Can anybody provide some good advice?
> 
> I have IBM Laptop R32 with WinXP SP2.
> 
> Genady


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