Re: TDK 440N indiDVD +-R/+-RW/CD-R/RW in ADS Dual Link drive kit not recognized as DVD Writer

Playing around a bit more...

I looked at http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;314060
and saw that the drive did show up as a writeable DVD drive.

Without a disk in the drive, it shows up in Explorer (via My Computer) as
DVD R/W Drive (D or something similar. When I put a blank DVD+R disk into
it, this changed to CD Drive (D.

When I started Nero Burning ROM (6.1), it defaulted to creating a CD
compilation. When I changed it to DVD, it hung.

Help!

--Stan


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"Stan Spotts" <stan.spotts@nospam.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> I took the TDK out of a tower I decomissioned and put it into an ADS
> Technologies Dual Link Drive Kit (external box w/Firewire and USB 2.0). I
> wanted to make the drive usable by my laptop.
>
> When I connected the drive, it doesn't see it as a DVD writer. It'll read

a

> DVD, and properties show up with region settings, but still it looks like
> Windows XP thinks it's a CD-ROM drive.
> The loaded drivers associated with the drive are: cdrom.sys, imapi.sys,
> redbook.sys, and storprop.dll. Also, the device shows up as "TDK

DVDRW0404N

> USB Device".
>
> Has anyone gotten this combination to work? I also have an ADS USB drive
> kit with a 120Gb IDE drive that worked from day 1, so I'm guessing that

it's

> something about recognizing the info from the BIOS of the drive and making
> the connection that it's a DVD writer.
>
> Any solution will be welcome. I'm comfortable with tweaking .inf or

playing

> with the registry to get this going. TDK already said it's not their
> problem and would offer no help. ADS hasn't responded, and no info is on
> their site about this.
>
> Thanks,
> Stan
>
>