Originally posted by: The111
I apologize if this has been posted before but I can't find it anywhere in this giant thread.
I just got a new DVD-R drive, a Samsung S203N (my first SATA optical drive). It worked great under XP 32-bit for the first week. But then I upgraded to Vista 64-bit and while it technically works (it can read and write), there is something wrong.
When you load a disc, generally you expect 3 things to happen:
1) icon on disc drive updates to reflect disc
2) volume label updates to reflect disc
3) right-click context menu updates to reflect type of disc
This is not happening. For example, if I boot the computer up into Vista and then put a data DVD into the drive, these things are not happening. BUT I can still open the drive and browse/use its contents.
However, if I restart the computer with a disc in the drive, it WILL show as in the drive once Windows starts. But if I then take that disc out of the drive and either replace it or just leave the drive empty, it still shows the previous disc as being in there (and its relevant context menu).
So in other words the "Computer" explorer only seems to scan once at reboot for the contents of the disc and disc type, to update the icon, volume label, and context menu. Other software (such as DVDShrink) does recognize the volume labels of newly inserted discs, even if Windows Explorer doesn't.
I've only had this drive for a week... and I don't have this issue with my 3+ year old Lite-On IDE drive if I try to use it with Vista.
I updated all my JMicron RAID drivers from the ASUS site for Vista 64 and this should have the SATA working fine. Any ideas?
I don't use this board any more , went to sli ,but this board was very picky on how to set up the drives ,there are jumpers ,boot drives should be on sata1,
-if it was me , I know the asus forums on this board has many cases of what works and what does not , so it could be a good place to follow up if no one can help you here ,
-also to the fact your using the Jmicron drivers lead me to believe your set up is not simple
-when I used the board , sata DVD drives where not a option , as I run 4 x drive raid 0 ,
but lots of people had problems with the EZ raid config. screwing up the sata ports for the sata dvd drives
-but to get help you really have to list all your drives and where they are connected.
-and maybe its just a vista issue .