Cant burn DVDs... Get media changed error - WTF?

[gregom]

I just bought a new CD drive from Newegg, the Lite-On SOHW 1213S, 12X DVD±RW, http://www.newegg.com/app/view...=27-106-950&amp;DEPA=1">click here for info</a>. Anyway it will write CDs just fine. And I managed to get it to burn an ISO file/image of a DVD of a game just fine, once, with Burn4Free. I tried it again later and it wouldn't do it. Every single time I try it, I get the same error message across all programs. I've tried Nero, Alcohol 120%, and Burn4Free, all start the burn process, then about 20 seconds later, an error appears... "WRITER ERROR [UNIT ATTENTION (NOT READY TO READY CHANGE, MEDIUM MAY HAVE CHANGED)]"

So what does this mean? Out of curiousity I took it over to my friends house and he popped it in his tower, and it wrote DVD's fawlessly. So it must be my computer and not the drive. One thing a little off is something I noticed in the Device Manager, the drive shows as a "SCSI Cd-Rom Device" SCSI? WTH? It's IDE. I wonder if this has anything to do with it. I've tried uninstalling the drive from the DM and restarting my computer, but that had no effect. I don't see that there are any drivers on Lite-On's website, nor would I asume it need any. And since Nero uses its own ASPI drivers (I believe, right?) that part should not matter. But something is seriously messed up and I want to fix it. But I am not familiar at all with DVD writing so I don't know where to start. All the basic things I've tried have done nothing.

I still can't explain as to how it managed to successfully burn in ISO image, but it only did it once. I tried it again in the same program and no-go. This is strange.

Anyone have any idea as to what the problem is?

My system is running Windows XP Pro with SP1. I can provice my entire computer specs if necessary but I will give you a brief run-down just in-case.

Bio-Star iDEQ 200N on nVidia nForce2 chipset
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ running at 2.1 GHz
512 MB PC-2700 DDR-333 Kingston Memory
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 256-bit 128 MB 8X AGP
Western Digital 7200 RPM 100 GB IDE-ATA-133
Western Digital 7200 RPM 250 GB IDE-ATA-133

 

[otispunkmeyer]

install ur chipset drivers again maybe that might straighten out the IDE dirvers etc

i have a liteon DVD-R/RW drive (does all media cd/dvd +/-) and its crap, i wont even read CD's let alone burn them, does DVDs jus fine

 

[vailr]

I experienced a similar problem with that particular model Liteon 1213S drive, using the latest firmware. According to one DriverHeaven.com BBS posting,
http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?t=54995
the latest available firmware still lags behind even older 8X Liteon versions, as far as compatability with certain brands of recordable DVD's.
(There's a discussion thread at CDRFreaks.com about possibly flashing with a more compatable Sony firmware, if you're willing to chance voiding the warranty.
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showt...p;highlight=1213S+Sony)

Otherwise, try experimenting with some other brands of recordable DVD's.

 

[gregom]

I'll give that a try. Thanks for the tip.

As for the drive, it wrote CD's just fine, and very fast. Sorry you got a bad drive. Most people seem to be pretty happy with them. My previous 16x10x40x CD-RW from Lite-On has been working awesome for over 2 years (about) and have never had problems with it. So I figured I'd get another Lite-On. I hope I get this working.

 

[gregom]

I have updated the firmware to the most current one. That had no effect. I am going to try the reinstalling chipset drivers though.

Okay well I just installed/reinstalled the chipset drivers. That did not change a thing. Still says "SCSI Cd-Rom Device" in the device manager for the drive and it still fails the write for this "media changed" crap. It is the latest firmware too.

I just also tried the drive in my other computer (which has been down because I was too lazy to reassymble it) and it works fine in it. Although its not my main computer with all my stuff in it so its about useless in that computer. But it does work and write DVDs.

it's something with my computer... But what I don't know. I have to figure out how to get rid of this dammed SCSI crap its saying because I have a preminition that that is the issue.

If anyone has any other ideas I'd appreciate anything you have.

One of these days I'll get it working, if I have to do a format I may...

 

[Richard98]

Originally posted by: gregom
I have updated the firmware to the most current one. That had no effect. I am going to try the reinstalling chipset drivers though.

Try using the Windows XP drivers - Delete the IDE channel that the burner is connected to, reboot, XP should automatically install the windows drivers. After installation, make sure that each IDE channel is set to "DMA if Available".

 

[gregom]

The drive does NOT have its own drivers. It is using XP drivers. That is what XP installed. There is no DMA options because Windows thinks its SCSI for some lame reason. I can't figure out how to get it back to IDE. This is weird...

 

[Richard98]

Originally posted by: gregom
The drive does NOT have its own drivers. It is using XP drivers. That is what XP installed. There is no DMA options because Windows thinks its SCSI for some lame reason. I can't figure out how to get it back to IDE. This is weird...

It's the IDE channel, not the drive with which you're using other drivers. You mentioned you installed the chipset drivers.

 

[gregom]

Possibly... So what should I do? Remove the hard drive on the slave connection of the channel? I'll try that and see if it has any effect.

I did install the nVidia chipset drivers again. No changes at all.

 

[Richard98]

Originally posted by: gregom
Possibly... So what should I do? Remove the hard drive on the slave connection of the channel? I'll try that and see if it has any effect.

I did install the nVidia chipset drivers again. No changes at all.

I'd make sure that the hard drive was connected to the Primary IDE Channel and that the optical drives are connected to the Secondary IDE Channel, then remove the drivers for the Secondary channel as follows:

Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager. Click on the + button to expand IDE Controllers, right click on whichever IDE channel that the DVD drive is connected to, then click UNINSTALL. Reboot, let windows install the xp driver, then check DMA settings

 

[gregom]

Alright well the HD is already on the primary and the DVD is on the secondary. Ill uninstall the IDE drivers (only one, not channel specific) and try that...

Update: Ok I just did that... After the restart I checked the device manager and there were two IDE controllers, but the primary channel had a warning icon over it. Windows informed me the device driver for this device was not designed for this platform... WTF? Very strange. But my hard drives both showed up and the DVD drive no longer had the SCSI info in the name. After another restart the same thing happened again but did not request a restart this time.

I'm going to try writing a DVD now. Because everything appears to be working even though the device manager says the driver is not installed.

After this I may install the nVidia IDE drivers and see what happens.

So far... the DVD drive is WORKING. It is writing the DVD. Ill see if it finishes though.

 

[Richard98]

Originally posted by: gregom

Update: Ok I just did that... After the restart I checked the device manager and there were two IDE controllers, but the primary channel had a warning icon over it. Windows informed me the device driver for this device was not designed for this platform...

Perhaps you could rollback the driver for the Primary channel or update the driver for only the Primary Channel.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

don't

After this I may install the nVidia IDE drivers and see what happens.

 

[gnumantsc]

For some reason I am having strange issues with the latest nVidia drivers as well. With my LG burner sometimes its switches to PIO mode and the easiest way for me to reset it to Ultra DMA is to remove the Secondary IDE channel and Scan for Hardware Changes.

It seems with the latest one it does not work the same and says there was a problem installing the drivers, but it still burns fine

 

[gregom]

Well it wrote the DVD just fine! So my preminition was correct that that had something do with my problem. I'm not going to try and install the nVidia drivers again and see what happens. If it comes back as a SCSI, I'll just remove their drivers and go with the Windows ones... Hopefully that wont happen though.

 

[gnumantsc]

I mean if you want you can try the older nVidia drivers before the 4.24 ones (which I did not have the issue I have described)

I think the nVidia drivers does not use the IDE drivers since like 2.45 anyways or maybe that has changed.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: gregom
Well it wrote the DVD just fine! So my preminition was correct that that had something do with my problem. I'm not going to try and install the nVidia drivers again and see what happens. If it comes back as a SCSI, I'll just remove their drivers and go with the Windows ones... Hopefully that wont happen though.

that's why I'd said don't.. the nVidia SW(performance) drivers cause issues (drives show as scsi when ide) at least was my experience with 2 different nf2 Biostar mobos..tried the same on my Shuttle an35n ultra and got same trouble there as well. gl

 

[gregom]

Well that was deffinatly it! I put the nForce IDE drivers back on and after the retstart drive showed as SCSI again and of course would not write DVDs.... So.. Scrap that driver. I'm gonna remove it and just go on without it. Everything seems to work fine with the Windows driver.

I love my new DVD Drive... That 8X burned in like 6 minutes! All 4.36 gigs of it! Ohh yeah.

Thanks for the help guys. You got me going in the right direction. I'm gonna be sending nVidia an email here soon informing them of this issue.

Thanks again, and peace.

 

[gregom]

Well the only problem now is the Windows drivers aren't working. Each time it tries to install them I get "Drive is not intended for this platform". That's pretty screwy... I'll try the CD and see if that works. Otherwise i'll be back for more excellent help from this community.