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Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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>>Replying to my own post here since I fixed the problem... one for the
>>archives.
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>Nice move, thanks for thinking of it.
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>>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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>Arr. Another reason never to use the supplied drivers, always hit the
>Web for the latest.
Tell me about it.. been having intermittent problems with these drives
for nearly a year.. lot's of coasters. Nearly binned the drives.
The trick here is the controller was rebranded by Gigabyte as their
own : "GIGABYTE SATA 2". They even reprinted this text over the
J-micron chip itself. I didn't appreciate it was on the board, nor
that I was running non-standard IDE drivers...
You live and learn... :-)
The Gigabyte has been good apart from this, but that's sneaky...
>Difficult if you're rebuilding the only PC in the house, but that
>doesn't seem to happen much any more!
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