Cd drive misreading toc

[D.M.1059]

I looked in the archives and didnt find anything that seemed related.

I have a liteon cdrom drive that has worked great but now all of the sudden it is getting the toc wrong.

I can put the same disk in it and it seems to add tracks, and really big ones at that. For instance it listed track 1 & 2 that are on the disk, but the third track is listed as 170 and is a huge track, much bigger than what a cd can hold.

The actual disk only had 2 tracks on it and other drives list it as such. The problem is just with this drive and I swear it started happening when I was ripping one day with several disks going and then there was a "you must reboot" message from windows...so I did and it has been messed up ever since.

I thought it might be some kind of rootkit like sony used, but nothing seems to detect anything out of the ordinary.

Anyhow this screws up the metadata and makes the drive unusable. I have uninstalled it several times but it still misreads.

Any thoughts???

[Spoon]

Re: Cd drive misreading toc

Try removing your IDE controllers from device manager, reboot and the drives will be redected by Windows again.

[D.M.1059]

Re: Cd drive misreading toc

Hi Spoon,

I did that and it caused me to have to reboot and then windows found everything and I had to reboot again.

So the 3rd track that isnt on the disk is now gone and the drive reports only 2 tracks. However now it gets the times of the tracks wrong so the metadata is off. On the bad drive the 2 tracks add to 37 minutes exactly and on the good drives they are 51:33.

What could be wrong.

[Spoon]

Re: Cd drive misreading toc

Perhaps the drive is now faulty?

[D.M.1059]

Re: Cd drive misreading toc

I suppose that is possible.

Though I just bought the drive about a month ago and it has very light usage at this point.

Are drives that faulty??

I'll put it in another computer and see if it behaves the same.

Thanks.

[D.M.1059]

Re: Cd drive misreading toc

Here is an update.

The bad drive has been moved from the ide connection of the ripping computer to a USB external enclosure. It now works fine.

A working drive from another computer was connected to the ide connection in the ripping computer, and now is misreading the toc. Crazy stuff like 2 tracks are 397 minutes long.

Since it doesnt seem to be drive related, I am guessing it is something to do with the ide drivers or connection in the ripping computer. Any ideas on what to check?

Thanks.

[Spoon]

Re: Cd drive misreading toc

It would not hurt to update your chipset drivers (which typically update the ide controller drivers also).

[D.M.1059]

Re: Cd drive misreading toc

It would not hurt to update your chipset drivers (which typically update the ide controller drivers also).

Well I tried but there was no update as far as i could tell, and gigabyte wouldnt tell me. They wanted me to try putting in the os disk to see if it would run. The names are all different in the bios than what is on the drive so I thought it was a test doomed to give false positives.

I bought a pci-e ide card and the same drive now works fine.