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I have a matshita DVD-ram UJ-811 drive (slimline drive in a laptop). More
and more frequently, it will fail to read disks when they are put into the
drive.
When a disk is inserted and you close the drawer, the activity light will
flash a few times and the stop. The system doesn't seem to even know there
is a disk in the drive.
Also, I recently used it to burn backups of some files (nothing critical but
would like to have them back) onto dvd-r disks and when one of those disks
are inserted into any DVD drive they take 'forever' to read (I'm talking
about 45-90 minutes) before you can see the information on the disk. Even
then, 99 out of 100 times, I can't copy any of the files from the disks
(errors out telling me to reinsert the disk).
I have looked for updated drivers or firmware for the drive and found none.
I have found that if windows doesn't open up the 'autostart' choices window
within a few seconds that the system didn't see the disk being inserted and
that if I open and close the drive, may take several tries, eventually the
system sees the disk.
I have replaced the drive twice under warranty, but now the machine is out
of warranty and the drive is doing the same thing.
I'm beginning to believe this is a problem with all of these drives or
something else is wrong with my machine.
and more frequently, it will fail to read disks when they are put into the
drive.
When a disk is inserted and you close the drawer, the activity light will
flash a few times and the stop. The system doesn't seem to even know there
is a disk in the drive.
Also, I recently used it to burn backups of some files (nothing critical but
would like to have them back) onto dvd-r disks and when one of those disks
are inserted into any DVD drive they take 'forever' to read (I'm talking
about 45-90 minutes) before you can see the information on the disk. Even
then, 99 out of 100 times, I can't copy any of the files from the disks
(errors out telling me to reinsert the disk).
I have looked for updated drivers or firmware for the drive and found none.
I have found that if windows doesn't open up the 'autostart' choices window
within a few seconds that the system didn't see the disk being inserted and
that if I open and close the drive, may take several tries, eventually the
system sees the disk.
I have replaced the drive twice under warranty, but now the machine is out
of warranty and the drive is doing the same thing.
I'm beginning to believe this is a problem with all of these drives or
something else is wrong with my machine.