Problem with Samsung DVD Writer

[Nipuna]

Hi

There is a problem with my Samsung DVD writer. I bought it about 6 months ago.

Problem is some times It can't recognize CD DVD or any. But I can see it in My Computer and When I press Eject button tray comes out. And when I insert a CD or DVD windows mouse pointer indicates that there is a CD in the drive but I can't see there is a CD in the drive only normal drive icon can be seen.

So I connected the SATA cable of DVD writer to another port then it worked, then after some days the problem started again. So I removed and replugged the cable again then worked for some more days. Today it started again, And after bending and shaking the cable little it worked again.

I think this is a problem with the cable, So I checked it with multimeter but couldn't find any problem. And this problem comes randomly. So I think it can't find with multimeter because there must be a loose connection or something.

By the way I gave money to a friend of mine to bring me a cable.

Do you think is this the problem?

[Neo]

Yes, cable can probably be the problem. However, if you can check with Ubuntu (I know you have it installed) you can confirm that is a hardware problem.

[Nipuna]

Yes, cable can probably be the problem. However, if you can check with Ubuntu (I know you have it installed) you can confirm that is a hardware problem.

Yes I already tried. Same with Ubuntu.

[PraveenAlexis]

maybe there is a problem in you sata ports on ur mother board! I had a anoyoing bug with my samsung drive, when i insert a cd or a dvd, the tray omes back again, i have to do it almost 10times to get it stoped auto ejecting

[Herath]

Samsung is one of my not-recommended brands for HDDs, mobiles and optical drives.
I am owning a Asus DRW-1814BL drive. It's really rock-solid. Never had a problem with for 4 years now. One of my friends had that crazy tray problem. The tray comes out suddenly while reading a disc and it is so annoying. .

[Nipuna]

Samsung is one of my not-recommended brands for HDDs, mobiles and optical drives.
I am owning a Asus DRW-1814BL drive. It's really rock-solid. Never had a problem with for 4 years now. One of my friends had that crazy tray problem. The tray comes out suddenly while reading a disc and it is so annoying. .

I have Sony Combo drive and it's about 3 years old and still works almost well . It has not recognizing a Blank DVD problem. But it did before.

But even I have Samsung HDD it is almost same as my combo drive and it work well.

[PraveenAlexis]

i have another drive LG DVD-RW DRIVE, i bought it IN YEAR 2002 still i didnt find any problem with that except its transfer speed is a bit low maybe since its a IDE DRIVE now i recommend LG STUFF BTW MAXTER IS GOOD FOR HDD, I HAD A SAMSUNG 250GB HDD, IDK HOW IT HAPPEND, IT GOT BAD SECTORS ALL OVER, DAMN IT UNFORTUNATELY I HAD WARRENTY,

[Nipuna]

Changed the cable but still same no luck

Its name is Samsung. But in device manager it says this. (I think Samsung and Sharp both make these ODDs together )

TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S243D

I even couldn't find the firmware to update my drive.

By the way. I tried cable plugging into 2 port but no luck. Worked one or two times, Then began that error again. I can't figure out what the heck this is

[Nipuna]

Did firmware reinstalling because there is no update for it.

But problem still same.

What can I do?

Now I feel to kick this and throw this away. I get very mad when I can't find a solution for a very annoying problem

[PraveenAlexis]

1st try lence cleaning
2nd replace with warrenty,
3rd chop it