DVD burner issues

[mrfatboy]

I have a samsung DVD burner. Sometime is works as it should other times my computer can't see it or when I try see what's on the DVD it takes a long while searching and says "insert dvd".

It can work fine one second and then not the other.

Anybody have any idea what the problem is?

 

[boomerang]

More than likely it's the burner itself.

Try a different data cable and/or plug it into a different connector on the motherboard if possible to troubleshoot. I realize it's an intermittant problem.

I've had several die like that on me.

 

[mrfatboy]

i thought it was a bad sony dvd before. I RMA'd it for the samsung. same problem. It's an SATA drive. I guess I could try a different port.