So I finally got round to rearranging cables so I could plug my DVD drive back in. (The time to use a DVD finally came). But the problem is, Windows insists that it is a CD-ROM drive. Whenever I put a disk into it it spins and whirs and then stops, and it insists it doesnt have a disk in it. If i right click on this 'CD ROM' drive and click eject, the DVD drive does eject, so I am looking at the right one. Help.
What is the BIOS showing it as? For some reason since a format Win XP now identifies my DVD/RW as a cd-rom drive. But it still workes as a DVD drive. I can still burn dvd's etc. However my BIOS detects it exactly what it is, so i'm not too worried. Have you tried unplugging all your drives except the drive in question? Try running it as master/slave and seeing what happens?
May sound silly but have you tried a CD in there? Or is it definitely just DVD's it's having trouble with?
That is really weird, my course of action would be to try another 80 pin IDE cable, then try and update the firmware, failing that, try it in a mates system if possible
This has happened to me many times before (usually with Sony drives, go figure). A firmware flash has always done it for me, just Google the model number and enough should come up.
