DVD-RW drive not accesable. Incorrect function.

got an optorite dvd-rw drive and a new pioneer dvd-rw drive
both are pata/ide
the motherboard has no sata support
neither are being recognised
the drive is E
A and B have been disbled as are floppy drives by default
C is a hdd
D is correctly recognised as a DVD-Rom
F is correctly recognised as a CD-RW

the devices are being recognised during default boot up
no discs are being recognised at all, both cd-r and dvd-r

 

this will normally indictate bad media/cable/drive but in most of the cases i've seen it's a defective drive

 

Do you have the nVidia software IDE driver installed? If so, remove it and try again.

 

Sometimes incorrect jumper settings can cause this kinda problem. Also (as above) check the ide channel drivers in device manager, sometimes, reinstalling these and rebooting, (will automatically reinstall) will can fix the problem. Also check that the driver is in a DMA mode, PIO mode will stop discs from being read correctly, and in some cases for some drives the discs wont read at all.

 

are they showing up in device manager?
if they are showing in device manager, but they have an error, what is the error code?

you may need to delete the upper and lower filters from within regedit.