Re: CD/DVD drives in new build gone to pot...

[Signal <signal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Signal <signal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Built a machine a few months back and my previously flawless drives (a
>Liteon DVD reader and NEC DVD writer) started behaving
>temperamentally. [Rest of the machine is fine]. Both drives struggle
>to read some discs, which were no problem before (including pressed
>CDs in the Liteon). The writer often craps out when using rewritable
>CDs, again never had a problem before. 
>
>They are both IDE drives, master/slave jumpers are correct.
>Motherboard is a Gigabyte P35C-DSR3.
>
>Any suggestions as to why this is happening.. possible remedies I can
>try out? TIA

Replying to my own post here since I fixed the problem... one for the
archives.

Some motherboards come with a J-micron SATA controller which also
controls the IDE ports. The J-micron driver supplied with the board
was buggy in the IDE implementation. A driver update and the drives
are behaving normally again.

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/jmicron.htm





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