DVD drives will not recognize media

From: TimF (TimF_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:43:04 -0800

I have multiple systems with DVD_RW's installed. They will not recognize any
DVD media, including the DVD that came with them for the drivers./software.

These systems each have different system board and DVD writer manufacturers.
They all have the latest updates for the boards, the latest firmware for the
DVD drives, and all are running the M$ IDE driver for the controller.

They are set to use UDMA, have UDMA round cables installed on them, and show
as using UDMA in Device Manager.

These drives were working and would recognize DVD media prior to installing
Windows XP. This includes OS upgrades and fresh installs. If I move the
drives to a PC running Win2K, they function perfectly. Updating to SP1 and 2
with latest patches, did not help.

I have seen many others with the same problem all over the net. There seems
to be no real solution. Some can fix it with the M$ IDE driver, or firmware
updates, or using UDMA instead of PIO. But none of that has worked for these
3 systems.
I am sure by now M$ must realize there is a problem with XP and DVD-RW's
from mulitple manufacturers. But I haven't seen anything posted about a
possible solution.

Has anyone had a similar problem, if so did you get a solid fix or are you
still having issues?

For the record, the main system I need working has a Sony DRU-510A drive,
with an Abit NSF-7S2 board, running a fresh install of XP SP2.

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