Reading DVD Ram

Rocks

Reading DVD Ram

Windows Vista29
I have a TSST DVD +- RW TS -H653A SCSI drive. Computer is Dell Inspiron 531

running Vista Home Premium.

The drive will not read DVD Ram disk. Does anyone know if an update is

available to enable this drive to read DVD Ram.

I have been searching, but cannot so far at least, come across an updated

driver.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Bob

-

kurttrail

Registered User

Mon Apr 07 09:21:33 PDT 2008

Re:Reading DVD Ram

Bob wrote:

Quote

I have a TSST DVD +- RW TS -H653A SCSI drive. Computer is Dell Inspiron

531 running Vista Home Premium.

The drive will not read DVD Ram disk. Does anyone know if an update is

available to enable this drive to read DVD Ram.

I have been searching, but cannot so far at least, come across an

updated driver.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Bob

It would be a firmware update, not a driver update, if one was available

for your drive.

Contact Dell to find out the capabilities of the drive you got from them.

--

Peace!

Kurt

Former Self-anointed Moderator

microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea

"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

-

Synapse

Registered User

Mon Apr 07 11:08:43 PDT 2008

Re:Reading DVD Ram

"Bob" <bob.bob@shipsatsea.com>wrote in message

Quote

I have a TSST DVD +- RW TS -H653A SCSI drive. Computer is Dell Inspiron

531 running Vista Home Premium.

The drive will not read DVD Ram disk. Does anyone know if an update is

available to enable this drive to read DVD Ram.

I have been searching, but cannot so far at least, come across an updated

driver.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

According to these pages, it can read and write DVD-RAM discs.

www.gearxs.com/gearxs/product_info.php >www.gearxs.com/gearxs/product_info.php

www.cdfreaks.com/devices/DVD__RW/TSST-Corp/TS-H653A.html" >www.cdfreaks.com/devices/DVD__RW/TSST-Corp/TS-H653A.html

It appears to be a rebranded Samsung SH-S183A. The Japanese companies

stopped making optical drives years ago, and just sell rebranded Korean and

Taiwanese (possibly Chinese as well these days) made drives instead.

Try updating to the firmware to vSB03.

www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx >www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx

ss.

-

Synapse

Registered User

Mon Apr 07 12:27:53 PDT 2008

Re:Reading DVD Ram

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMsyndrome.me.uk>wrote in message

Quote

>I have a TSST DVD +- RW TS -H653A SCSI drive. Computer is Dell Inspiron

>531 running Vista Home Premium.

>The drive will not read DVD Ram disk. Does anyone know if an update is

>available to enable this drive to read DVD Ram.

>I have been searching, but cannot so far at least, come across an updated

>driver.

>Any advice would be gratefully received.

According to these pages, it can read and write DVD-RAM discs.

www.gearxs.com/gearxs/product_info.php >www.gearxs.com/gearxs/product_info.php

www.cdfreaks.com/devices/DVD__RW/TSST-Corp/TS-H653A.html" >www.cdfreaks.com/devices/DVD__RW/TSST-Corp/TS-H653A.html

It appears to be a rebranded Samsung SH-S183A. The Japanese companies

stopped making optical drives years ago, and just sell rebranded Korean

and Taiwanese (possibly Chinese as well these days) made drives instead.

Try updating to the firmware to vSB03.

www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx >www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx

Are you sure that drive is a SCSI one? If you do update the firmware, make

sure that the SATA version is the same, or find the latest Samsung firmware

for the SCSI version. Any new Samsung firmware is bound to be newer than

anything that Dell may have on their site.

ss.

-

Bob

Registered User

Mon Apr 07 13:18:06 PDT 2008

Re:Reading DVD Ram

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMsyndrome.me.uk>wrote in message

Quote

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMsyndrome.me.uk>wrote in message

news:eLc1tpNmIHA.2504@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>>I have a TSST DVD +- RW TS -H653A SCSI drive. Computer is Dell Inspiron

>>531 running Vista Home Premium.

>>The drive will not read DVD Ram disk. Does anyone know if an update is

>>available to enable this drive to read DVD Ram.

>>I have been searching, but cannot so far at least, come across an

>>updated driver.

>>Any advice would be gratefully received.

>

>

>According to these pages, it can read and write DVD-RAM discs.

>

>www.gearxs.com/gearxs/product_info.php >www.gearxs.com/gearxs/product_info.php

>www.cdfreaks.com/devices/DVD__RW/TSST-Corp/TS-H653A.html" >www.cdfreaks.com/devices/DVD__RW/TSST-Corp/TS-H653A.html

>

>It appears to be a rebranded Samsung SH-S183A. The Japanese companies

>stopped making optical drives years ago, and just sell rebranded Korean

>and Taiwanese (possibly Chinese as well these days) made drives instead.

>

>Try updating to the firmware to vSB03.

>www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx >www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx

Are you sure that drive is a SCSI one? If you do update the firmware,

make sure that the SATA version is the same, or find the latest Samsung

firmware for the SCSI version. Any new Samsung firmware is bound to be

newer than anything that Dell may have on their site.

ss.

Its definitely SCSI, I just rechecked in Device Manager. What do you mean

when you say that the SATA version should be the same?

I am reading conflicting info about this drive. It does read DVD Ram and it

does not read DVD Ram. I don't know what to believe really!

Bob

-

Synapse

Registered User

Mon Apr 07 14:08:58 PDT 2008

Re:Reading DVD Ram

"Bob" <bob.bob@shipsatsea.com>wrote in message

Quote

>>

>>Try updating to the firmware to vSB03.

>>www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx >www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx

>

>Are you sure that drive is a SCSI one? If you do update the firmware,

>make sure that the SATA version is the same, or find the latest Samsung

>firmware for the SCSI version. Any new Samsung firmware is bound to be

>newer than anything that Dell may have on their site.

>

Its definitely SCSI, I just rechecked in Device Manager. What do you mean

when you say that the SATA version should be the same?

I am reading conflicting info about this drive. It does read DVD Ram and

it does not read DVD Ram. I don't know what to believe really!

Well there appears to be SCSI and SATA versions of this drive and,

strangely, they seem to both have the same model number. Therefore it makes

updating the firmware a bit risky, as you may need a different version to

the SATA firmware.

Getting a SATA drive that can read and write DVD-RAM is not expensive at

all, so you might consider just doing that.

ss.

-

Bob

Registered User

Mon Apr 07 17:23:55 PDT 2008

Re:Reading DVD Ram

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMsyndrome.me.uk>wrote in message

Quote

"Bob" <bob.bob@shipsatsea.com>wrote in message

news:2kvKj.30060$Ff4.9836@newsfe5-win.ntli.net...

>>>

>>>Try updating to the firmware to vSB03.

>>>www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx >www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx

>>

>>Are you sure that drive is a SCSI one? If you do update the firmware,

>>make sure that the SATA version is the same, or find the latest Samsung

>>firmware for the SCSI version. Any new Samsung firmware is bound to be

>>newer than anything that Dell may have on their site.

>>

>Its definitely SCSI, I just rechecked in Device Manager. What do you mean

>when you say that the SATA version should be the same?

>I am reading conflicting info about this drive. It does read DVD Ram and

>it does not read DVD Ram. I don't know what to believe really!

Well there appears to be SCSI and SATA versions of this drive and,

strangely, they seem to both have the same model number. Therefore it

makes updating the firmware a bit risky, as you may need a different

version to the SATA firmware.

Getting a SATA drive that can read and write DVD-RAM is not expensive at

all, so you might consider just doing that.

ss.

Yes I am coming to the same conclusion. Thanks for your interest and

advice.

Bob