XP not recognising Toshiba DVD ROM

[HD]

I have a Toshiba Tecra 8200 with a Toshiba SD-C2402 DVD ROM drive. The
original DVD ROM worked perfectly until the slide tray broke. I bought 2
second hand drives and both are recognised by DOS and XP only after I
unplug/plug them.

I have flashed the bios for the Tecra to the latest. I have flashed the
bios for the drives to the same version (1009 & 1015), just in case.

Before I take a chance and try a different bios for the drive (and realising
I could make it unusable!), has anyone any ideas how to solve this minor
irritation.

Aardvark

 

[GBH]

Aardvark, found the following scrounging round Google groups. Not the same
problem but there may be some clues in there as to your problem!

Geoff

quote
I have the same problem with reading DVD+RW disks on my
Compaq M700 Laptop with the Toshiba dvd drive.
Microsoft knowledge base article 818733 addresses this
issue. you need to get a special modified Udsf.sys file
from microsoft to fix this problem. Its not released for
general use so you must go thru Microsoft tech support to
get it.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818733

 

[KingKong]

Try this forum, seems to be loads of useful info and a posting there may
produce some results too ....

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=20

Geoff

 

[HD]

Thanks for that - I will investigate!

Aardvark

Try this forum, seems to be loads of useful info and a posting there may
produce some results too ....

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=20

Geoff