The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Man, I screwed up my DVD-RW Drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Minger, Jul 20, 2007.

  1. Minger

    Minger Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    28
    Messages:
    289
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    31
    On my D531, I was trying to flash the firmware with Liggy's for the Optiarc AD-5540A drive, but it wouldn't go through, so I (stupidly) set the drive's setting to slave in an attempt to get that to work.

    Because of that, It won't even detect the drive now, and I don't think I can get a regular Slim ATA adapter to IDE for it either, as it uses a different port (Maybe its just for the D series Latitudes?)

    any help would be appreciated...
     
    Minger, Jul 20, 2007
    #1
  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    7,197
    Messages:
    28,841
    Likes Received:
    2,166
    Trophy Points:
    581
    Has the ODD got one IDE channel for itself? If so, the master / slave issue shouldn't matter - a slave device will work without a master on the same channel. If it is sharing the channel with something else then you would have a conflict which you might be able to temporarily work around by disconnecting the other device.

    One thing I would try is runinstalling the relevant IDE channel in Device Manager and then letting Windows redetect the hardware. This might flush out an interface problem.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jul 21, 2007
    #2
  3. Minger

    Minger Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    28
    Messages:
    289
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    31
    I'll try that. I sent in a warranty request for dell and the guy put in a request to have the part shipped to me, but it got cancelled later on....

    Meh, definatley not messing with this afterwards if it gets resolved...This thing won't even POST without giving me a white screen saying that its not detected...Any idea if theres anything I can use for an adapter if it doesn't use a regular ADA/PATA port?

    guess it wasnt cancelled, yay!
     
    Minger, Jul 21, 2007
    #3