Optiarc AD 7200A problems.

[bballnut]

I bought a Optiarc AD 7200A drive and put it in a external enclosure by Creative. It is recognized by the computer but will not play any media. It freezes up my computer when I try. It will not burn also. After being recognized by computer, that is pretty much it, can't do anything.
Is it because I put it in the Creative enclosure? I did this so my daughter could use it with her laptop because her laptop drive has died. If this will not work, I may install it in one of my desktop computers.
Do you think that is worth doing? I did a search on this drive here in the forums and it got trashed a lot.

thanks

[oldfart13]

Put it in the computer and set the region. Then try again in the enclosure. The laptop might also need drivers depending on the operating system. Good luck....

[redwudz]

Is that a IDE (PATA) drive? If so, make sure the drive's jumper is set to the 'Master' position. Region shouldn't matter except with commercial discs. I assume USB 2.0 cabling to the laptop? If so, might be a USB problem also.