DVD-RAM will not read ordinary CDs

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Luke Kandia

Hi there!

Just put a Panasonic LF-D521 into a system that had a normal CD in it before.
Now the system comes up, recognizing that the new drive is a DVD-RAM drive,
will write and read data from DVD-RAM media, but will NOT read any normal old
CDs.

Any ideas?

System is a 2.0GHz P4, running XP Pro.

regards
Luke
 
As it turns out, we had a SONY Magneto Optical Drive in there as well.
On the same IDE chain.
It wasn't being used.
By removing the SONY drive from the IDE chain, we were now able to get
the DVD-RAM drive to read CDs, DVDs, DVD-Rs, DVD-RAM etc.
Interesting.

Luke
 
Thanks for that washup, far too rare.

Luke Kandia said:
As it turns out, we had a SONY Magneto Optical Drive in there as well.
On the same IDE chain.
It wasn't being used.
By removing the SONY drive from the IDE chain, we were now able to get
the DVD-RAM drive to read CDs, DVDs, DVD-Rs, DVD-RAM etc.
Interesting.

Luke
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Rod said:
Thanks for that washup, far too rare.
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You did not mention your operating system, but for
Win2K, the OS sees the DVD-RAM drive as two
simultaneos devices, one acting as a normal CD
drive, and another one (with another drive letter)
labelled "Removable" which works as a DVD-RAM
drive.

On the other hand, WinXP detects which disc
type you have inserted and labels the device
accordingly and uses this single device.

At least this is the behaviour of my dual-boot
system with WinXP and Win2K.
 
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