DRIVER NEEDED: LG Electronics GSA-H22L (Windows XP Professional) [IDE]

[ffej28]

Version 1.02 should be availible?

Thanks!

Support Information:
Device Type: CD / DVD
Manufacturer: LG Electronics
Model: GSA-H22L
Interface: IDE
Operating System: Windows XP Professional
Age of Device: < 2 years old
FCCID:

Type of drive: dvd-r/cd-rw (dvd burner, dvd reader, &amp; cd burner combo)
Location: internal
What recording software are you using?: Other (Other: DVDNEXTCOPY)

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[Jerry K]

Version 1.02 of what? You must be referring to firmware as there are no Windows XP drivers. Optical drives don't require any driver. The os provides native support that allows this drive to read a data or music disk and to burn a cd-r disk. Anything else requires 3rd party software like Nero or Easy Cd Creator and WinDVD or PowerDVD. These are popular recording and dvd decoding titles.

If your needing firmware, you can check the manufacturers website to see if it's available. This is a pretty new model so it should not require a firmware update... it's their latest 18x model dual layer, with Lightscribe technology.

http://us.lge.com/products/model/det... A-H22L.jhtml

[zbo2]

i have this same drive and windows xp for some reason does not recognize it as a cd/rw drive....just a regular cd-rom drive. i've tried to uninstall and then re-install but have the same result. i did have to do the update on the stickey from microsoft to get either drive to work. now that they are working, it won't see the rw drive as a rw drive. ???

[Jerry K]

What problem does that cause? Are you unable to read a data or music disk? Are you unable to burn a disk? Please tell us what problem you are having.

[zbo2]

the problem is that it only sees the drive as a regular cd rom drive. when i load my roxio it tells me that i have no supported drive with which to burn a cd. also when i use windows explorer it only shows the drive as a cd rom drive. as i was typing this i wondered if i could have the drive selected wrong...ie: as a slave instead of a master or if i should have it selected as cable select. not sure how that would affect how the drive is seen. i do have 1 other cd rom drive that is not a burner drive.
thanks
Joe

[Jerry K]

try uninstalling the drive in Device Manager, ie: right click, left click uninstall. Reboot the machine. Windows will automatically reinstall it.

You should only have the drive jumpered as Cable Select if your other drives uses the same jumper scheme. ie: if your hard drive is jumpered as Cable select then the optical drive should match. If the hard drive is jumpered as Master then the optical drive should match it (if it's the only drive connected to the secondary ide port.) If you have 2 optical drives then they will need to be jumpered accordingly, ie: if hard drives are Cable Select then all optical drives should be Cable Select but if hard drive is set to Master, then optical drives should be the same.

Is this drive by chance a SATA drive?

[zbo2]

thanks jerry.............
i'll check the drives to see what they are set at then try to uninstall and reinstall....
i'll let you know!