DVD burner screwed by 2nd burner added to system

[mike]

On Jun 3, 4:01 pm, "William Sommerwerck" <grizzledgee...@comcast.net>
wrote:

After trying a firmware update for the LG GH22NP20 ...
The file executes in regular environment,

What I meant to say is the file executes in a normal *windows*
environment

and apparently didn't
screw anything up, and did make a few changes, but nothing like
gettring the drive back to normal. ... Guess there's not much point
in putting this in a different machine to see if it behaves differently,
I feel like the drive itself is what suffered any changes that occurred..

As the firmware update presumably completely overwrites the original
firmware, you have disproved my theory that the firmware coincidentally
failed.

Yeah, I guess whatever got changed is not gonna be recoverable, at

least not on the DIY level.

Nevertheless... You should still test the drive in another machine. That's
the only way to know "fer shur" where the problem lies.

Ok, just got through changing drives around and the LG behaves the
same on the different system, ie,
it plays dvd-rom discs but doesn't recognize dvd-r videos as
playable. I reinstalled the Lite-On drive in the systen the LG had
been in and it works as it did before, which is to say, normally in
all aspects, so I'm a little relieved that I don't have to try
repairing either the system or the burning software.

Once I try updating the firmware on a couple nonworking drives that
are lying around (BTW, thanks for that link Jeff) I guess I'll be
caught up on this problem.

 

[Carolee]

On 05/31/12 12:29, mike wrote:

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone out there would have a remedy to apply to my
LG
(GH22NP20) dvd burner. It's been working fine since I got it about 3
years ago,
Until yesterday, when I added a Lite-on DH-20A4P.

After burning a couple dvds with Lite-on burner, I tried reading them
with the LG burner, which worked fine at first, but on the 3rd one I
tried the LG wouldn't play it, though the Lite-on one still worked.

Then I tried to burn one with the LG burner and it made a coaster(you
can see on the disc where it stopped burning about a third of the way
through.

Using 'StartSmart' by Nero, the 'InfoTool' app still shows the LG as a
DVD-RAM drive, but the drive no longer will read DVDs, but will read
CDs still.

I have the original disc that came with the LG but apparently no
drivers on it. I tried deleting and re-detecting the drives in device
manager, to no avail...the Lite-on still works just fine, I
disconnected it to see if doing so I'd be able get the LG one going
again, but no luck so far.

the 'puter's an older P4 system with Ex-Pee on it - anyone got any
ideas?

TIA,
Mike

One of the burners should be set to "Master" and other one should be set
to "Slave", you 6 year old's ass licker.