HARDWARE PROBLEM!

[emmet^]

hello,
i wish to find the answer to a very annoying and mind-boggling problem with my Lite-ON CD-RW Drive. Wheneveri place a disk in the drive, any disk at all, it reads the disk, and then ejects again. i dont know what is wrong, all the cables are correctly connected, and there is power to the device.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[cfitz]

Does it do it when power is applied to the drive, but the IDE cable is removed? If so, then you would appear to have a defective drive. You might try flashing it with the latest to firmware to see if that helps, but I think there is a good chance you will end up having to return the drive for repair.

cfitz

[emmet^]

generally, when in windows, i try to write a disk or even read one, and the drive ejects the disk, every single disk, no matter what kind it is. and yes there is power in the drive

[cfitz]

Please re-read my response.

cfitz

[CDRecorder]

Can you make a boot floppy and boot from that? If so, please see if this problem occurs then.

You could also try updating the firmware for your drive.

Check http://www.liteonit.com.tw/english/e-down-f.asp?show=1 for a firmware update