polaroid dvd +/- r/rw

[rodrx]

I put the polaroid dvd drive on the secondary ide as a master drive and and had a cd-rom drive as the slave drive .. the polaroid dvd drive was recognised by windows xp but wouldnt read any dvd disk . I went into cmos and changed the access mode ( a fic an11 board ) .. I changed the access from auto to lba and now the drive works great , it reads dvd disks and writes them .

so since I'm just experimenting and not knowing what I really did can anyone explain why I got it to work ?

thanx

[rodrx]

btw: its a Polaroid DVD writer PDRW-4D-IN

[masternctrl]

I HAD a Polaroid DVD writer PDRW-4D-IN, infact 3 of them. Get your money back, not worth it. I used CloneDVD (between the reading and writing where you switch the orginal with a writeable) and I tried to erase a Fuji +RW with Alcohol 120% and that did something to the writer because it stopped and displayed "no media" (something like that). I tried it in two of my other machines and it did not recognise the a DVD, any DVD. I took that one back and tryed it again, same thing, this was when I realized that this happened when running CloneDVD and Alcohol to erase. I took that one back and got a 3rd one this time I ran separate programs. One day I tryed using it and it did not recognize a DVD. This I'm sure I did not do anything out of the ordinary. Also, the reason I was using RWs was because the Polaroid made coasters out of LiquidVideo DVD+R. Now I have a Lite_on 411 (same speed specs) and it does a DVD in almost half the time as the Polaroid. The Polaroid took 2 hours and the Lite-on (I hate that name, but a good machine) takes just over an hour. And the LiquidVideos?, nothing wrong with them, I've used the rest of them with no problems! Also. I like CloneDVD because it doesn't put that annoying banner as DVD X-Copy does.[/b]