I’ve tried to do research on this issue already and have done some troubleshooting.
Drive stops reading any discs, says “please insert disc”…
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I’ve uninstalled the drive, rebooted, works fine but eventually stops working…usually with inserting a new disc.
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I’ve changed SATA port on motherboard, Gigabyte z87x-ud3h and the issue still persists. The motherboard is a month old. Do I need to swap SATA cables also? I can’t imagine it’s a faulty SATA cable but I’ll give it a shot if this is the next step. I’d have to swap to another drive since I don’t have extras and I’m not about to go buy cables for troubleshooting.
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I’ve done the asus to iHBS112-2 firmware swap upgrade as explained on this site. Firmware upgrade was successful to PL06
I can’t really think of any other troubleshooting I could do? The drive is about a year old and used infrequently.
If it’s toast, I can RMA it I suppose but if this is a s*** drive, I need to know what blu ray writer/reader is reliable these days etc…
Thanks in advance