Hi, I hope someone can help so I dont waste any more time trying to figure this thing out. I have two dvd writers in my computer one as the reader and one as the writer. I decided to get a new writer as the old one seemed to have problems ejecting the disc. I bought a Samsung SH-S222A 22x PATA/IDE DVD/RW, Dual Layer, DVD-Rewritable Drive, BLACK - OEM (Bare Drive) and when I received it I noticed that one of the pins was shorter than the rest. I know there is supposed to be one missing but I have never seen a drive with a short pin before. It doesn't look snapped off, it looks like it maybe has been pushed in too deep.
Anyway I decided to just try it anyway and that's when the problems started. No matter how many times I try uninstalling the primary and secondary channels pio mode keeps coming up on one of the channels (sorry I have uninstalled it now so cant remember which)it usually says dma if availaible, but current transfer is set to pio mode.
Sometimes it says either dma if availaible or multi word dma 2. But the problem is that when either of these two statements come up as soon as I put a blank disc in it reverts to pio mode again. Also it takes ages to recognise the disc and makes the computer quite slow at the same time. With my old drive when I put in a blank disc a box came up and asked me what I wanted to do with it. with this a little disc icon appears next to the arrow and then after a few minutes a blank window comes up which says D://.
when the two statements come up and I dont put a blank disc in and maybe start nero recode, that also makes it revert back to pio, so maybe a conflict? I did try a few burns in nero recode in pio mode and it said book type set to dvd rom, and this message didn't appear with old drive.
I am using 80 pin ribbon type wire and the problem is not the wire as I have tried the old drive on it and its fine
amd sempron(tm) processor
3400+
2.00 ghz, 1.43 gb of ram physical address extension
windows xp
nero recode 2.2.6.17
