Lite-On DVD SATA drive

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> I'm having a lot of problems with this new DVD drive. Many times the
> media is not recognized or Vista thinks its a blank disk when its not
> or that that its what was in there before. I tried to find the
> firmware info in the device manager buts its not there as "firmware".
>
> Is anyone else having media detection problems??
>
> thanks

Yes, I have had two Lite-On SH-16A7S drives, and I have returned them both
to the retailer. With both of them I found a significant number of my DVD
movies were not recognised at all when inserted into the drive. [The discs
are perfectly fine, and are recognised immediately by my 10-year-old Hitachi
drive that has never had a lens cleaner through it since it was new]. The
Lite-On website has no downloadable firmware for this model (or didn't at
the time I returned the first one) and their technical support suggested it
was a drive fault and that I should return it. Either it is a fault with a
batch that the retailer received, or it is a problem with the design of the
whole model.

I have now swapped for a Samsung drive, and hope it works better. I expect
it to arrive on Saturday or Monday depending on the courier.

Neil

"Neil" <neil@chapellane69.free-online.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Yes, I have had two Lite-On SH-16A7S drives, and I have returned them
> both to the retailer.
>
> I have now swapped for a Samsung drive, and hope it works better. I
> expect it to arrive on Saturday or Monday depending on the courier.
>

Unfortunately, due to a cock-up in the shipping department I am now on my
third Lite-On drive and I haven't had the chance to try a Samsung drive yet.
For information, the third drive was considerably better than the other two.
But still out of a random sample of seven movies from my collection, one I
couldn't get to be recognised at all, and one was intermittently not
recognised.

I'm waiting for the courier to pick it back up, but it means I won't have
the Samsung until next weekend probably.

Neil

"Neil" <neil@chapellane69.free-online.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Neil" <neil@chapellane69.free-online.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:uP2a$2kyHHA.4184@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>>
>> Yes, I have had two Lite-On SH-16A7S drives, and I have returned them
>> both to the retailer.
>>
>> I have now swapped for a Samsung drive, and hope it works better. I
>> expect it to arrive on Saturday or Monday depending on the courier.
>>

>
> Unfortunately, due to a cock-up in the shipping department I am now on my
> third Lite-On drive and I haven't had the chance to try a Samsung drive
> yet. For information, the third drive was considerably better than the
> other two. But still out of a random sample of seven movies from my
> collection, one I couldn't get to be recognised at all, and one was
> intermittently not recognised.
>

I have tested the Samsung drive (model SH-S203) and it appears to work fine.
It successfully reads all the movies I have tried so far including the one
which the LiteOn drives all found to be very problematic.

Neil