[Writing failed and now I can't even open tray]

I guess my problem is solved. The old DVD writer works well with primary IDE bus. Just burned to DVD's successfully today.

[Writing failed and now I can't even open tray]

It really shouldn't make a difference to the eject button, they're supposed to work when there's only power going to the drive - i.e. no ide/sata cable.

Unless IDE bus is sending too much crap to drive...

[Writing failed and now I can't even open tray]

Now I changed the IDE bus, optical drive was in secondary bus as master, now it's in primary IDE bus. Motherboard is an oldie, Asus A7V600 with VIA KT600 chipset. Let's see if I can burn with it now. At least ejecting the disc works

[Writing failed and now I can't even open tray]

Well, I can open the tray with paperclip. But it's odd that even if I replace the DVD drive, I still can't open it. Drive is detected by OS (Windows 7 32 bit). I may try to change the IDE bus.

[Writing failed and now I can't even open tray]

It doesn't help. Drive's LED flashes few times and then goes to idle. Tray isn't moving at all.

[Writing failed and now I can't even open tray]

Hi,

I wrote a DVD image to DVD few days ago. Process was painfully slow so I decided to cancel the operation. I was using some Imation DVD+RW discs. Now I can't open my DVD drive's tray at all. I have booted the computer again, disconnected the optical drive and replaced it with another. Still I can't open the tray.

 

Here's the failed operation:

 

; //****************************************\\

; ImgBurn Version 2.5.0.0 - Log

; sunnuntai, 06 syyskuu 2009, 13:04:37

; \\****************************************//

;

;

I 12:34:40 ImgBurn Version 2.5.0.0 started!

I 12:34:40 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition (6.1, Build 7600)

I 12:34:40 Total Physical Memory: 1