SATA DVD/CD R/W is recognized, but does not disply CD contents

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Drive is new, but has sat on the shelf for several months.
I installed it with my new MSI motherboard because it is SATA, and the MB only has 2 IDE ports which I have hard drives on.

SATA Liteon DVD RW tested in and works in my other Windows XP system.

The new MSI G31TM-P21 BIOS identified the drive.
Windows gives it a drive letter.

When I click to explore the drive, window opens, but never shows anything in it.
I tried two CDs.

I connected an external DVD via USB and it got the same drive letter (E) and works fine.

I connect the troublesome Liteon DVD R/W drive to USB adapter, and it works fine.

Note:
BIOS shows the SATA drive to be ATAPI. Is that normal?

Carl
 
Interesting additional information,
the two DVD drives are identical make and model.

The one in the external enclosure is a retail package called "EZ-Dub" Mfg date September 2006.
The other one is OEM version from my friendly computer store Mfg date Apr 2008.

Carl
 
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