For the htpc I built I bought a laptop slot load bluray drive for it. It is a TS-TB23L. I think made by Samsung or something. I haven't used it much, but yesterday I was copying some of my blurays to my pc and the first one worked fine and then it wouldnt read any discs after that. After a bunch of looking for seemingly non existent driver updates and uninstalling and reinstalling it in device manager it still would not work. Finally I gave up and rebooted the pc to see what that would do and put in a disc and it read it. Awesome, I thought, until this morning I put in a different disc and it does it again. I reboot multiple times trying multiple discs and no go. Is it possible that a dirty lens would be causing this? Or some other kind of issue? Or maybe I just got a crappy drive? thanks
probably got dust in it.. get a blu-ray lens cleaner disc.. I have one.. it works.. if it doesn't read.. then you got a dead drive..
Looks like you were right. I had it in the workshop too much when building the htpc case. I opened it up and cleaned it out and now it works perfect it seems. Put in multiple discs a number of times and reads them all. Ripping a bluray as I type this.
actually I ran into issues again last night. I am not sure why it does this but I know how to 'fix' it. What happens is it will read any disc and work great, but after a disc has been in there for a while (when im ripping it to mkv) I eject it once done and then it wont read another disc. to 'fix' the problem I power down the htpc completely and power it back on and it then reads discs perfectly again. I think it was a bit dirty, but that isn't the issue anymore. is it possible that it is going to sleep or into some power save thing?? it will spin up the disc a bit for a few seconds and the light flashes a bit, then goes off. Seems more like software than hardware, IMO.
Can't. I looked at what driver it is using and its just using a generic microsoft cd rom driver. Anywhere I can get a newer driver?
same as this: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-HP-TS-TB23L-8X-DL-DVD-RW-Blu-Ray-ENVY-17-17T-SATA-Drive-/140760258845
'dega, Try this linky I'll keep looking. Found this one as well.. Lemme know if this works.. *disconnects from Skynet and goes into sleep mode*
Tried that Microsoft Fix It thing. Didn't work. The driver listed on that site is what I currently am using. How can there not be a newer driver?
*boots up* What? Oh man.. *mutters* Sorry 'dega.. looks like that drive may be duff.. do you have any other blu-ray drives??
nope, I've ripped over 40 blu rays to my server so far. I have to do a full shutdown and power on after each one though. But it works. 2 of my blu rays didn't work though... but I think thats the disc not the drive. Too bad I bought them quite a while ago, I don't think I could get replacement discs could i?
