Vista cannot shut down DVD?

I installed Vista on my SZ381P. Finaly got all everything working with the drivers after scouring the forum.

However, justa minute ago I realize there was some bug (maybe it's only me). When I go battery, I use the Vaio Power Management for Ultimate Battery which automaticaly disables the DVD drive. THe problem is that when I go into any profile which disables the DVD drive, a bubble pops up telling me that it cannot shut down the DVD drive because there currently is a disc inside - there is NO disc.

I'd like to know how to get VAIO power management to disable the DVD drive without confusing itself.

Thanks in advance.

 

Odd, I haven't used the Ultimate profile but on all my profiles including Vaio Optimized I have it disable the DVD/CD driver when it's on battery and it seems to work perfectly fine.

Have you upgraded the firmware of the DVD/CD? Sony posted a firmware upgrade a few weeks ago.

 

Solved. Not a matter of firmware.

I have Daemontools with an image loaded into my virtual DVD/CD rom drive. VAIO would not shut down either drive, the real or the virtual, because of the virtual drive's error.

 

Note:
I tried installing the firmare from Son'y site dated back from Jan 2007.
On installation it said the firmware was not compatible with my optical drive.
Weird... anyone have that issue?

 

Maybe try running it on XP or in XP Compatible mode?

 

I was about to say to check for virtual drives because with my Daemon tools runing I get the error that the drive tray is open.