DVD Drives Slow to Recognise Disks

[lnwebdesign]

I have two DVD drives in my PC and both take an age to recognise that a disk has been put in them. They both take up to 20 minutes to detect the disk but once they do they work fine. Ive tried checking the leads, cleaning them, updating firmware etc but to no avail.

The drives in question are:

• LITE-ON DVD SHD-16P1S

• LITE-ON DVDRW SHM165P6S

I've also got a ROXIO DVD-ROM EMULATOR SCSI CdRom Device showing in the Device Manager, which I don't know anything about.

Can anyone suggest anything?

[ski]

If both Lite-On drives are listed in Dev. Mgr., then remove the Roxio drive.

If no luck, then see if the media is recognized normally on another system.
If it is, then update your AV and spyware programs, and remove any viruses and malware.

If no luck, then do a clean boot. If the problem is fixed, then software is the probable cause. You can use the process of elimination with a clean boot to find the culprit.

If a clean boot does not help, then make sure both drives are correctly jumpered.

If that's ok, then disconnect one of the DVD drives. If that works and both drives are connected to the IDE 2 cable, then install one of them on the IDE 1 cable. If the drive that's still on the IDE 2 cable still has the problem, then replace the IDE cable with another known working cable.

If they're already on different cables, then see if the same problem happens with the drives installed on another system. If so, then they may both be bad.

[Cricket]

Are both drives on the same IDE cable? Have you tried removing one to see if it's affecting the other? A faulty optical drive can cause another drive on the same channel to act strange.

What kind of IDE cable are you using? 40 wire or 80 wire?

If 40 wire then use the master/slave jumper settings.

If 80 wire then use the CS (cable select) jumper setting.

Make sure the IDE cable is installed correctly too. 80 wire IDE cables must connect properly...blue to motherboard, black is master connector, grey is slave connector.

Is DMA enabled for both drives?

Cricket

[glc]

The Roxio drive was probably installed by your burning software. It is not a hardware device, it's a software emulator of some sort, such as a virtual drive.