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DVD-Rom drive won't read DVD-R. Can anyone help?

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krackato

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I've got a Toshiba SD-M1212 6x DVD-Rom drive. It's about 3 years old, but it reads DVD titles just fine. I've been trying to get it to read one of my DVD-R movies but the drive doesn't seem to recognize it. Does anyone know if there is a way to make this drive read DVD-R media? Maybe a firmware upgrade that I'm not aware of? I've found some firmware updates but haven't been able to successfully update the drive.

thanks,
Krackato
 
It could be the media. I tried some ElCheap-o media(~2.00 /DVD-R) and it didn't read well in most other DVD players (did OK for data on the original machine, but video just didn't work well).

I stepped to better media (Apple DVD-R @~US$6.00 each) and now most video works in most players I have (computers w/ DVD Rom and Set-Top DVD players).

Even if you're not using Cheap media, try another brand and perhaps you'll get better results.

Good Luck

Scott
 
Yeah, I'm using Apple media. I'll try some other media out, but I thought Apple media was supposed to be one of the best kinds.
 
I read somewhere that some drives have problems reading DVD-R discs that have not had their session closed (I think this was more for older set-top boxes, but maybe it's worth trying)
 
Apple media is one of the best media for compatibility. That's not the problem. The problem is that you have a first generation DVD ROM. You need to upgrade. Sorry to say.
 
Un huh. It won't. Anyway, why don't you try this. Does the media read in another DVD rom? Yes? It's your DVD ROM. It may be compatible with some DVD-R which I HIGHLY doubt but even if it is it's likely to have a lot of compatibility problems and you might have to buy some extremely expensive discs just to get it to work. Go out and buy yourself and new $40 dvdrom OEM and see if your problems don't go away.
 
Well, the thing is that I've already got 3 other DVD players around the house, 2 of which play DVD-R. The only reason I have this DVD-Rom is that I got it for free from my brother when his system went to hell, so I wouldn't really spend the $40 on a new DVD-Rom since I've got so many DVD players as is. I was just trying to get the DVD-Rom that I've got now to work with DVD-R just because I've got a few DVD-R's from my personal projects, but I'm not about to sink another $40 for another device to watch movies. God knows I've got enough of those.
 
yeah, if it works fine on all of those other DVDroms it's obviously this drive's age showing. You may be able to get it to read DVD-r by looking for an firmware update but generally it's a limitation of the laser not being able to pick up the less reflective media. You could also just buy more expensive discs but if you're doing that you'd be better off in the long run just getting a new DVDROM
 
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