Hitachi GD-5000 DVD-ROM -- DVD-R discs wont read

[w00tski]

Dont know if this is the right forum or not, but ive got myself a sony dru500a burner recently, and have tried to get my hitachi GD-5000 dvdrom drive to read the dvd-r discs ive burnt and it wont recognise the discs at all.

My liteon will read them, the xbox will read them, even my pioneer dv344 player will recognise the discs (data discs), yet my hitachi GD-5000 DVD-ROM drive wont.

The drive is a slightly older 8x/40x drive, which stated specifically it will read DVD-R discs (even DVD-RAM). Now for the real kicker, i tried a DVD+RW disc that came with my burner, and it reads it, even thou there is no support for such a disc format in the manual.

Has anyone got this dvd-rom drive, and if so, to read DVD-R discs? The brand of discs ive tried include laser(tdk200000) , maxmax (GSC001), digimedia(unknown). Is there any special way of writing it? Ive been using DVD-Video Xbox compatability mode from the nero options burning UDF/ISO compilation with the latest version of nero.

Any help on the above would be greatly appreciated and i apologise if this is the wrong forum to be posting this.

[edthesped]

I have the same drive and it doesn't read dvd-r's either (I haven't tested it with +r's or rw's yet). I read somewhere, but I don't remember where, that it is not compatable with the -r format. I also have the GD-8000 and it reads the -r's, +r's and rw's without problem.

[rcb3n474]

I have a GD-3000, the 6X. It will not read dvd-r or rw.

[RAAGAAman]

The GD-5000 is a very old drive. In fact, the last drive that Hitachi shipped before coming HLDS was a GD-8000. I do not think there is a FW upgrade. I would go out and buy another drive that was built after 2000.

RG

[w00tski]

yeh well its good to see that im not the only one. Reason i question it is because it says in teh specs that it will read DVD-R. The odd thing is that they spec'd the dvd-r to be 3.95GB capacity. I think only kodak made them. Also, if the drive CAN read dvd+rw, doesnt this prove the point that the + format is more compatible? I havent tried any DVD+R media yet, purchased some recently which i will try and see if it works.

An interesting note, i burnt the +RW disc, with only 50mb of data for a test, and it did not read the disc. My sony burner could. However, i reburnt the disc with more data, 1.7gb just as a sample and it could then read the disc. Id be interested to know why..

Anyway, no need to purchase a new dvdrom drive as i already have a liteon 16x LTD163D. Excellent unit this one, even 'tries' to read a coaster i made.
Apart from not reading DVD-R, this drive is the only one that i have that according to the specs will read DVD-RAM discs. Not that i have any or intend to in the future, but its handy if it does.

[HyperYagami]

The odd thing is that they spec'd the dvd-r to be 3.95GB capacity.

That's either the 1st gen DVD-R or DVD-R for Authoring.

[w00tski]

1st generation sounds right, but would authoring media be the sort of DVD-R media that is intended for video only?