Weird problem!!

[Ziggy1111]

Hello,

Overything is running fine except for 2 things, i have 2 optical drives in my system on the black port recognised fine and all working except that whenever i put in a emty dvd i cant burn on it and its not recognised both my dvd writers have this problem. If the dvd has data on it theres no problem and it recognised fine. In my old system this problem wasnt there using same dvds, also when i put in dvd rw i cant rewrite it its only recognised when something is on it but i cant rewrite it? Anyone knows a solution for this??
I have tried connecting my opticals to the blue port same problem.

My second problem is im using two old hds ide and one sata 2 with windows on it on the sata1 connector, bios recognises everything but the sata 2 drive is working at ide speeds when i set bios to ahci system keeps rebooting itself. Do i need to install windows again with the f6 option for this to work at sata 2 speeds??

So plz help me on my dvd problem and my sata 2 problem if possible

Thnx in advance
Ziggy

 

[Harvey]

Check your CMOS to see if the drives are recognized at bootup.

Are your jumpers set correctly to identify them as Master and Slave

Some boards have problems with two burners, and its usually best to make a burner a master on the IDE channel it's on. Also, some drives are fussy when you have SATA and ATA drives.

Try disconnecting all drives, except the SATA 2 drive, boot, and check to see if it's recognized in the CMOS. Then, reconnect the other hard drive and one DVD drive.

Assuming your SATA drive is your boot drive, if both DVD drives are burners, try making them the Master on each IDE channel and the old drives as slaves.

Finally, try it with hard settings for Master and Slave. Some boards have problems recognizing some older drives using Cable Select.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

 

[Ziggy1111]

Hi,

My dvdwriters are recognised fine on the jmicron controller and i can use em fine when the dvd is not empty. But when i put in a empty dvd i cant open it i get a error message and when i try to burn it in nero it asks me to put in a empty dvd when there is one in it.

thnx

 

[hmeijdam]

Hi,

Exactly the same problem here on a Jmicron controller with a BenQ writer. I also added my old Pioneer DVD writer to the other port of the Jmicron controller and the Pioneer shows exactly the same problem.

Now, how to fix this?

Hans

 

[Peter]

That'll be a driver bug, or if things go really bad, a lack of capability in the bus interface controller chip.

 

[hmeijdam]

After 15 minutes of google I got it fixed with downloading the Jmicron beta drivers as mentioned in this thread (scroll to the middle of the discussion)
http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=100990.msg741533

Hans