Device Not Ready (No Reference Position Found)

thedeetz · May 12, 2009

Hi,

So I've been reading all sorts of forum answers about this problem and I just can't seem to get this bug to go away.

I get 'Device not ready (No Reference Position Found)' after a lengthy Logical unit process line.

Now, I'm using a lite-on lh-20a1 dvd dl burner, I'm using verbatims (which I tried ten out of my 50 spindle of)

The drive will read all dvds and cds I put in.

It has successfully burned regular dvds before.

here's the classic log that everyone with this problem recieved

I 12:04:15 ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 started!

I 12:04:15 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3)

I 12:04:15 Total Physical Memory: 785,904 KB - Available: 148,500 KB

I 12:04:15 Initialising SPTI...

I 12:04:15 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 12:04:15 Found 1 DVD

**LIGHTNING UK!** · May 12, 2009

Clearly it's not reading *all* dvd's or you wouldn't be having the problem you're having!

Try cleaning the drive because basically, it can't initialise the disc properly. Until it does/can, no software can do anything with it.

Do you only have the one spindle of discs? What were they exactly? DVD-R or DVD+R? Have you also tried looking for a firmware update for the drive?

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