With sp1 my dvd drive started acting strangely

[Nazgul9]

It started with the dvd-rw drive (Optiarc AD-7173S) disappearing and an exclamation mark in the device manager. Reinstalling the drive provided only short term relief (drive disappearing again). I've read about other people with similar issues and a fix that requires deleting some filters in the registry but i didn't have those entries. After plugging the drive into another SATA port it stopped disappearing but it's still giving me problems. For instance when copying files from a dvd to the disk the copy process sometimes just stops and the drive stops spinning, i then have to cancel the process which takes ages (untill the copy window closes). I haven't tried burning yet, don't wanna end up with a lot of ruined medias.

Anyone who can help my? Pretty please...

[Kindovic]

could it be ur optical drive is faulty??

[Nazgul9]

I doubt it coz the issues started right after applying sp1.

Have now enabled the second ide/sata controller on my board (i think it's a chip from via) and let it control my drive in ide mode (i'm suspecting ahci as the culprit; strange that pre-sp1 it worked all fine, though).

My first attempt at copying large amounts of files from a dvd to my disk after the change went smoothly. *fingers crossed*