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More info?)
Hi:
I am not sure if this would help but you may try to download and update the
latest firmware from Sony, if they are available for your models.
Good luck.
"Robert Evans" <revanz@optonline.net>
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>I have two Sony CD drives that after installing SP2 will no longer
>correctly recognize writeable media
> I've already checked out the Registry
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD
> Burning\Drives]
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD
> Burning\Drives\Volume{2d9fda91-7f43-11d7-ae64-806d6172696f}]
> "Drive Type"=dword:00000002
> "CurrentCDWriteSpeed"=dword:ffffffff
> "MaxCDWriteSpeed"=dword:00000028
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD
> Burning\Drives\Volume{415d04d0-a9cd-11d7-b4f4-806d6172696f}]
> "Drive Type"=dword:00000002
> "CurrentCDWriteSpeed"=dword:ffffffff
> "MaxCDWriteSpeed"=dword:0000001e
>
>
> The drives are SONY CD-RW CRX220E1 and SONY DVD RW DRU-510A
>
> both drives say, when you open My Computer that they are a CD-RW and
> DVD-RW drive respectively
> But when I insert a CD-RW or DVD+RW in thier drives they both switch to
> saying that they are CD Drives
> And XP will not let me write files to them, although I can still read
> them.
>
> Contacting SONY was a waste of time, all they would say was it was
> Microsoft's problem.
>
> And I already tried uninstalling the drives from the Hardware Manager and
> letting XP rediscover them
>
> Please tell me that there is a way to fix this
>
> I guess I should also mention that I was using Veritsa DLA to write to
> these drives
>