- Jan 13, 2004
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I have an Asus P8P67 Evo, and I'm using 4 hard drives and 2 optical drives, all of them using Sata connections. For the hard drives I used all 4 of my Sata 3.0 ports. For the optical drives, in order to avoid the bugged Sata ports I would have had to stretch the Sata cables outside the case to use the external ports, so I decided since the bug was only supposed to present itself in rare cases to use the 2.0 Sata ports.
Now its a month later or so and over the past few days first one of my dvd drives "disappeared" from showing up in Windows (but the other still worked), and today the other one is gone as well. I just rebooted without effect, to the computer it appears that neither is even plugged in, but they are plugged in.
This seems different than a progressively increasing error rate that Intel described. I burned a DVD just a week ago, and it worked fine. I installed an old program from CD and that worked fine as well. Now in just two days both of my optical drives just vanished from the OS.
I registered with Asus but haven't heard back from them yet. I hope they get back to me soon, I'm not sure that optical drives will even work with the external sata ports, because apparently some sata ports are not designed to work with anything except hard drives.
Now its a month later or so and over the past few days first one of my dvd drives "disappeared" from showing up in Windows (but the other still worked), and today the other one is gone as well. I just rebooted without effect, to the computer it appears that neither is even plugged in, but they are plugged in.
This seems different than a progressively increasing error rate that Intel described. I burned a DVD just a week ago, and it worked fine. I installed an old program from CD and that worked fine as well. Now in just two days both of my optical drives just vanished from the OS.
I registered with Asus but haven't heard back from them yet. I hope they get back to me soon, I'm not sure that optical drives will even work with the external sata ports, because apparently some sata ports are not designed to work with anything except hard drives.
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