Problem with LG GSA-4082B.

[godbeer]

Hi guys,

I bought an LG GSA-4082B drive a couple of months ago and it worked perfectly until a last week, when it started to refuse to read/write or even recognize any disc. I called LG and they swapped it for a replacement (BTW, a big thumbs up to the LG service department - the new drive arrived 3 days after I called them, before I had even returned the defective unit to them).

I installed the drive as the slave drive, on the same chain as my NEC nd-3100a, which is the original burner that came with my PC and is set as the master drive. This is the same way I had the old LG drive installed which, like I said, worked with no problems until it died completely.

After installing the drive and booting up, the first thing I noticed is that my pc had slowed to a crawl - it took about 5 minutes to start up (it stalled on the windows startup splash screen for about 3 minutes - I was just about to flick the power and try starting up again, but then it continued to boot up. After that, everything was incredibly slow and most everything I did would cause the pc to freeze. Also, the computer only recognized the LG drive and the NEC drive was lost.

After restarting a few times with the same problems, I opened the case case and changed the jumper on the LG from slave to Cable Select. This seemed to clear up most everything, except for one problem that I can't figure out.

Everything is back up to speed and the drive is able to rip and burn normally, except that it will only let me burn one disc at a time. After that I have to reboot each time I want to burn another disc. If I try to burn a second disc without restarting I get the following message (using decrypter): "unable to lock volume for exclusive access" (or something like that) - basically saying that it cannot lock the drive during burning.

I'm not sure if this is a drive problem or a software problem, but I'm thinking it's something with the drive since if I burn with the NEC this doesn't happen.

Anyone have any idea what could be causing this, or what I can do to correct it?

Thanks for any help,

Roy

[ViRaL1]

Not that this is a guaranteed fix, but I'd recommend switching the LG to Master and the NEC to slave. Also make sure than DMA is enabled for both drives in BIOS and in device manager.