SONY DVD RW DWU10A firmware upgrade to DVD RW DRU-500A

[george54]

i have bought a sony DVD RW DW-U10A and am having problems getting it to read any disk i put into the drive, (DVDS and CDS ). When i put a disk in the light stays on for 4-5 mins then goes out but nothing is displayed when i go to my computer /"x" drive/explore.
I have my DVDrw-drive as master and HDD as slave on IDE1 ,and DVD-ROM as Secondary master on IDE2.
I have tried diffrent setups inside the box but to no avail. I am running win xp home with 2.6 ghz and 256 DDR Memory.
I have also upgraded with firmware to change the drive to DVDRW DRU-500A which i have managed sucessfully using firmware version 2.0g.
After reading several forums i also downloaded forceaspi and installed it also checking other aspi layer and installing as required so i think that there is nothing else to do so i am COMPLETLEY helpless as what to do next.
Does anyone have any suggestions

[Northstar]

First you could go into hardware properties and make sure the drive is using DMA, maybe its set to PIO and it dosent like it.

Or how ow about setting H/D as Master and DVD-RW as Slave on IDE1, how you have it set seems weird to me, i always thought IDE1 needed the hardrive thats going to be used for the O/S set as master first, thats how ive always done it and everyone i know has done it that way since well... forever. If i were you i'd try just the HD set as Master on IDE1 and the DVD-RW set as slave or master on IDE2 is probably the first way to go imho (if the PIO/DMA thing dosent work) and work from there.

[george54]

Thanks for your reply
DMA is set and i have set HDD to master and DVD RW DRU 500A to master on ide 2 but it stll does not read any inserted original DVD-ROM or software i have (xp home cd).
(I was only trying diffrent setups to see if that was the solution as i read it on another post in this forum)

[Northstar]

Was the drive working before you upgraded the firmware, and has it ever worked since you bought it?

The only other things i can suggest are, cleaning it, and maybe trying a different IDE cable.

If it was working before and its suddenly stopped working for no apparent reason then maybe it just died.