Sony DVD RW drive cant detect blank dvd R's

Posted by scylla

It was working just fine with being able to write to blank DVD R's & DVD RW's while I had Windows Millenium Edition on it but for some reason the burning programs that I use always say there is no disk even when there is. It can read disks that have info on it just fine but I cant say it does the same with a blank dvd r... Any suggestions? The technical info for the thing is pasted below.

Quoting Alcohol %120: SONY DVD RW DRU-510A

Vendor Id: SONY
Product Id: DVD RW DRU-510A
Product Revision Level: 1.0a
Location: atapi, Port 1, Bus 0, Target 0, Lun 0
Device Letter: G:
DVD Region Info: RPC-1, Region free device
Buffer Size: 8192 KB

Maximum Read speed: 32X
Maximum Write Speed: 24X
Current Read Speed: 32X
Current Write Speed: 24X

Read ISRC: Supported
Read UPC: Supported
Burn-Free Technology: Power-Burn
Auto-Select best write speed: Not Supported
Read ATIP: Not Supported

Posted by Gollum

I think that Alcohol 120 creates a virtual drive automatically. Make sure that G: is your physical drive, not the virtual drive.

Posted by scylla

I dont think the alcohol program is to blame. Any program I use including nero even thinks that there is "no disk" when there is a dvd r inside of the drive.