Laptop DVD Burner Playback problems

[Cake^^]

Hello, ^_^

I have a recent Toshiba Satellite notebook using a Core 2 Duo T5300
CPU with a TSST Corp TS-L632D DVD burner.
Running WinXP Pro SP2 32bit.

My problem is that if I don't boot my notebook (it boots
of the HD but reads the DVD drive during bootup for a few secs) with
the DVD-Video disk in the drive, afterwards Windows does
not recognise DVD Video disks (commercial or home burnt, even same
region as drive).

PowerDVD gives an Error - No DVD in Drive.
AnyDVD gives an error and says I don't have a DVD drive installed.
In the Info tab of AnyDVD it says that it is disabled for that drive
and it identifies the above make and model correctly.
Using Explorer to access the DVD drive yields an empty
drive - shows no files.
VLC does the same, it won't play anything back.
Installing DVD43 later also did not help.
HOWEVER files on CD and DVD are accesible, ordinary files
that is.

If I boot up my laptop and a DVD movie is in the drive then
I can play the DVD back. AnyDVD still gives an error
and doesn't work but installing DVD43 later works
OK ( I know that DVD43 and AnyDVD don't like each other
I tried with both apps seperately: uninstall plus reboot etc).
PowerDVD works and DVD43 works as advertised.
VLC also works.

However NOW I can't access ordinary DVD files on the DVD!

So something is quite strange. I don't have any malware,
have MS Firewall/now Sunbelt Firewall, McAfee AV and
Spybot running, no viruses or malware.
Aspicheck tells me that my ASPI layer is correctly installed.

Anyhow would really appreciate someone's insight into this
problem.

Thanks!!! ^^

[MJA]

I'm not sure if this issue have anything to do with UDMA/PIO thing.

update the firmware using their live ODD service
http://www.samsungodd.com/eng/Firmware/Faq/Faq.asp?FunctionValue=1

lastest IDE/SATA Chipset driver installed ?

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f105/tsstcorp-ts-l632d-problems-188364/

[Cake^^]

Hi MJA. Thanks for that!
I tried what you said, although the site above did not have a matching firmware available for download I managed to find an RPC-1 version at
toshibaer.com

This seems to have solved the problem. Thanks!

[[_chef_]]

Slimtype drives need to have the correct OEM firmware flashed or they wont work properly...