Problems with Sony AW-G170 A-B2 DVD burner

[greygary]

I have just bought this DVD Burner for use with Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 pc. Motherboard: Foxconn P9657AA 8EKRS2H. The drive reads CD's and DVD's fine but I cannot burn either through XP Pro.
I can burn CD's using CD Burner XP Pro 3 software but not DVD's.
One strange point: the Sony DVD burner is listed as SCSI device through device manager............
I do not have any drivers for this drive and assumed none are needed. I wondered if I have a compatability problem
Any advice would be appreciated

[Nox]

someone else was saying this about the device manager listing things as scsi on here recently

I'll try find the post, before i fall asleep!

Nox

[Nox]

sounds familiar?:

http://forum.novatech.co.uk/viewtopic.p ... ce+manager (http://forum.novatech.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=20143&highlight=device+manager)

Nox

[Nox]

hmmm, can't find the post i was looking for, maybe a different forum or something...

Nox

[greygary]

I still have the same problem (with SCSI being listed) despite receiving a replacement equivalent Samsung drive. I now have Nero and am able to burn DVD-R disks but not DVD RW (error formatting the disks every time).
This SCSI thing - is there any reason that I should get this in device manager? Does anyone else have this problem?
Surely 2 different brand drives can't be wrong - can anyone help?
thanks.

[greygary]

I have now noticed that my dvd burners are listed under my
'JMicron JMB 36x RAID controller' (NOT under my IDE channels). I wondered if this was a clue to the cause of my problem. Should an IDE device connected to PIDE port be configured this way?
Can anyone help?
Thanks

[greygary]

I thought I should update with the outcome of my problem.
I have established that using \nero both drives do not burn +RW or +R DVDs. They work fine with -R and -RW.
I shall just buy the latter types in future rather than wasting time on solving the problem with + types of DVD, and keep a look out for posts where other people have solved similar problems.
thanks to all who offered advice.