I need the exact driver for this device, not the firmware update. Windows is recognizing it as a SCSI, which it is not, so the firmware update does nothing. I believe the original driver was bundled on a disk with a version of Nero, which I no longer have.

Support Information:
Device Type: CD / DVD
Manufacturer: LG Electronics
Model: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B
Interface: IDE
Operating System: Windows XP Home
Age of Device: Not specified
FCCID:

Type of drive: cd-rw, dvd (rewriter & dvd rom combo)
Location: internal
What recording software are you using?: Other (Other: Windows)

Find it on DriverGuide (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=srch&sm=b&aax=&qa6=591&qa5=3&qa7=1500&dp=3&qm0=HL-DT-ST+RW%2FDVD+GCC-4480B&jmd=and&fzz=d) | Find it with Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=LG+Electronics+CD+%2F+DVD++HL-DT-ST+RW%2FDVD+GCC-4480B+Windows+XP+Home+) | Research manufacturer LG Electronics (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=getinfo&companyid=591)

wrong... optical drives NEVER require a driver other than the one that comes packaged with the os. Nero only contains authoring (burning) software.

Windows XP provides native support that allows any optical drive to read a data or music disk and to burn a cd-r disk. Nothing else.

Normally I would agree, but why does Device Manager show this drive as a SCSI when it is actually IDE? I have to fix this problem to update the firmware. When I try to update the firmware, I get error message: "CD-ROM model doesn't match" and when I try to select Secondary Master from GCC-4480B102(EW).exe (firmware application) it acts as if no device is even there.

Is there any reason other than the driver, that an IDE drive would show up as an SCSI?

Do you have anything in your pc relating to scsi? ie: scsi controller or a scsi drive? If you don't then there is no reason why it would be idenfied as a scsi drive when it's actually an IDE drive. Never heard of this ever happening. but I assure you, you will not find a Windows driver for any optical drive. None exist (other than the ones Microsoft included with the XP OS). The only driver that exists for optical drives are DOS drivers.

Why are you focused on a firmware update? Has the drive ever worked before? If so it worked without the firmware update then right? Firmware is only to update a drives features. it will not make a non-working drive suddenly start working. Has the drive firmware ever been changed from factory original?

Provide some history on the drive and some info from Device Manager under CD DRIVES and from the IDE CONTROLLERS section then perhaps we can shed some light on the situation. A description of the motherboard and the pc system it came installed in might also help. Right now I don't know anything about your hardware so it's difficult to help.

Found the problem.

Motherboard: Epox 8rda3+

Chipset: nForce 2

After some Googling, found that IDE drives showing up as SCSI is caused by nForce drivers. If you hear of anyone having this problem again; It's "nForce drivers!" I now know better than to use them and have since decided I don't think I like nvidia chipsets that much.

This all started when I got a new case and thought; "Might as well do a fresh install of Windows to go along with it." Big mistake. Windows installed fine, but tried the app/driver for wireless keyboard and mouse and my PC would just lock/crash. Found the drive showing up as SCSI and panicked. Reinstalled Windows. Installed drivers as needed without nForce drivers. This fixed the SCSI problem - nForce drivers on IDE-controller = bad idea! Still had problem with disk for keyboard/mouse. Tried on another system, and it crashed that one too. Just a bad disk, which is odd, because I don't remember having that problem when I first got the keyboard and mouse.

Anyways, long story short, it wasn't a problem with the driver for the optical device, it was the nForce driver on the IDE controller.

Now my only problem is finding USB 2.0 drivers for this motherboard/chipset. Original disk just has HTML saying, "go to Windows Update for USB drivers."

Glad you figured it out and thanks for taking the time to explain the fix.

USB 2.0 support comes from updating with SP1 or SP2. Until then you will only get USB 1.1 support.