Scratching my head on this one

[jrdeahl]

Howdy!

I am trying to burn a DVD with an external usb case w/dvd burner.

External usb case works with a 120 gb maxtor hard drive.

DVD Burner is a new pioneer 111d and works fine as an internal in the computer.

When in the external cae xp shows drive fine. (jumper set to master)

When I put a recorded dvd or a blank dvd into the burner it says it is empty!

Anybody got an idea?

Thanks,
John

 

[bacis]

hi.
is this happens with any media you try to burn?
use dvd indentifier to be sure that the media is present.
if no use quality media.
http://dvd.identifier.cdfreaks.com/

 

[jrdeahl]

Yes, I have tried several different media and also did a firmware upgrade.

 

[bacis]

hi.
do u use dvd indentifier?
is the media regonzized there??
if no then its a faulty drive.
but be sure to try several times the media in dvd indent.
sometimes is not able to regornize them.

 

[jrdeahl]

I also installed xp sp2 which didn't help.

It must be something in XP usb drivers.

I decided to try the firewire (case is both usb and firewire).

Worked fine. Go figure!

I get really tired of the quirks in MS OSes and hardware.

 

[TPLAT]

Have you tried a different usb plug in on your computer or even a different usb cable, also make sure that the usb cable your using is usb 2.0 compliant, some older usb cables may not be usb 2.0, as for it working on a firewire connection I would stick with that as its a faster connection then usb.