Lite-On 811S recognized as CD RW

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#1

Okay, I’m a brand newbie…

Just bought my first DVD burner (Lite-On 811S) and installed it. Didn’t come with any installation software so I just hoped Win200o Pro would recognize it as plug & play. Unfortunately, it comes up as only a CD burner. Am guessing I need some special drivers or something. Ideas?

My system:

  • Win2000 Pro
  • 2.4 GHz Pentium IV chip
  • 811S mounted as master on secondary IDE channel (DVD ROM as slave)
  • plenty of RAM and hard disk space
  • NTI CD&DVD burner software, version 6.0

Thanks

#2

No drivers are requried for modern IDE drives on Windows 98 and above. Try playing a DVD in it. If the disc plays, then it’s definately not a cd/rw drve you got there ;). The ultimate test is to just try and burn a dvd with the drive. If it burns fine then you’ll have no problems.

If it doesn’t burn, no harm will come to the drive or the disc.

Weshy.

#3

Well, it plays DVDs but it won’t record them.

When I launch the NTI software, there are 2 burn options “Data CD” and “Data DVD” but the DVD option is not enabled (cannot be selected). If I use the “Data CD” option with a blank DVD, it only wants me to load up 700MB of data and then when I tell it to burn it gives me the message “the layout type is incompatible with the target disk type”.

So, looks like I’ve got a CD/DVD reader and a CD burner - but no DVD burner.

When I look at it with Device Manager, it is recognized as “LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-811S” and the device drivers names are “cdrom.sys”, “redbook.sys”, and “storprop.dll”.

Guess I need to determine if this is a hardware or software problem…

#4

Just a quick question, is the drive set to be secondary master? Also (and this may help) make sure that the driver for your IDE primary/secondary channel controller on the motherboard are set for the defaulth MS ones. You can do this by following the following steps:

Right click on my computer->Properties->

Hardware tab->Device manager (middle -right)

Expand IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers

Will have intel / Via / nvidia Ultra ATA storage controller (or similar)

Don’t do the primary or secondary channels. They are children of the main.

Right click on the Via /Intel / Nvidia Ultra ATA / IDE controlller and select “Update driver”.

Then select “install from a list or specific location”-> next

Select “Don’t search. i will choose the driver to install” -> next

Select “standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (or similar)” -> next

Reboot machine to take effect.

Also, I think there are other posts regarding DVD drives being recognized as only CD-RW drives so try doing a search as well. Hope this fixes any problems