Help Installing Sony

[BJC]

I posted this to another site's forum with no luck so far, so I'm trying here.....


I just bought a DW-U10A (1.1c) and after installing the drive (secondary-master--80 pin cable), I booted in WinXP SP-1. I then get the found new hardware wizard, and of course it searches for drivers after I tell it to do so automatically. I've never installed a CD or DVD or CD burner and have it do this before. I don't think it should do this as XP should know what to do with this drive. When it finds nothing, it says can't install hardware and continues into XP. The drive does exist in the device manager under DVD/CD-ROM drives and in My Computer. In My Computer, it seems to think it is just a CD-ROM as checking the drive properties has no Recording tab.
Tried burning using Nero and a CDRW worked fine.
Tried burning a DVD-RW with NTI DVD-Maker that came with the drive and it immediately stopped and gave me a buffer-underun error and locked my computer up.

Can anyone help me get this thing installed properly please (get rid of the found new hardware)?

Also, what does the light on the front show when reading and burning--does it flash on/off when burning as mine did?


Gigabyte 667 Ultra (845PE chipset) (Sony not on Promise controller)
P4 1.8 (not o/c'ed)
Maxtor 80G
Toshiba DVD
LiteOn 52x24x52
1G 333DDR (running at 266)
WinXP SP1
ASPI 4.6 (also tried with it removed)
UDMA is on (tried it off too)
IAA not installed

Thanks

[dlb]

Just a thought, but what jumper setting have you set the sony drive to ?

My cd burner was set to cable select, I have set my sony to the same and have had no problems with it. Windows xp picked it up.
I use Nero and Recored now to burn, Prazzi does not support the drive, you would need to flash the firmware.

Hope this helps.

dlb.