Odd behavior with Pioneer 106D

[DrexTek]

I recently purchased a Pioneer 106 Dual format DVD burner.
The weird thing that happens is when I put a CD in the drive. Here's what happened to me the other day:

I installed a game that contained 2 CDs. It read the first CD fine. When it asked to insert the 2nd CD, I did, but it still showed as the 1st CD. I had to eject the 2nd CD, wait about a minute or so, then insert the 2nd CD. That's when it recognized it as the CD it truly was.

Anyone seen anything like this?

Win XP (all patched up), 1GB ram, 3 hard drives + Pioneer DVD Burner which is set up as the master (I think).

[norbert]

I experienced exactly the same behaviour. The drive continued to show the previous CD content information no matter what I do. The drive detect a change of CD correctly but keeps showing the previous one.

The most strange thing: I tried to reproduce the problem again and now it does not happen anymore (after shuting down)

No idea what can be done and if this can happen again.
I am using Windows XP Pro, completely updated, and the Pioneer drive alone connected to the second IDE bus.

Anyone heard before about this problem?

Norbert.

[jimmalenko]

Its not simply a matter of pressing F5 to refresh ?

[norbert]

No, I obviously tried this, but I forgot to mention in my first post. All the usual things were tried...

Thanks, it's always good to remind common things like this one, before somebody goes into other complex steps.

Norbert.

[Tidy]

I have not seen this in years but in the late 90's I used to get this all the time with earlier versions of Windows. With the earlier versions it had to do with the fact that when you read a cd there is no direct disc access windows uses a virtual mode to access the information on hard disk or cd. What was happening was, for some reason when we changed the cd the drive would report change of disc correctly but for whatever reason windows would not clear the directory cache from when it originally read the disc. the only way to get it to dump that "stuck" cache was to reboot. I don't know if this has anything to do with the current problem but I thought it might give you a different direction to try.

[jeex]

this has happened to me a few times on my drive. i just right click on the drive and select "eject", that always solves it.. i guess thats a "soft eject" as opposed to a "hard eject"

[Tidy]

makes sense to me kind of like forcing windows to admit there has been a disc change and dump the cache. Maybe I should have tried that ten years ago hahaha. Kive and leanr I guess.

[norbert]

For whatever reason, i didn't experience the problem anymore.

But i will take note of your recommendations if it starts again.
However, I will still have the doubt whether it is Win XP or a dwarf who manages my hardware...

Thanks for your help.
Norbert.