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rapperwith1p
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Ok so here's the situation, I bought a Rosewill ide-sata adaptor from newegg and installed it. Everything is fine and now I have a pseudo-sata optical drive. However, I only had 2 sata cables at the time and one was connected to my main hd and the other I switched between my storage hd and my dvd drive. After a while I got another sata cable and now each device is connected via the sata interface so I've gotten rid of ide. By the way I'm using an MSI p965 Neo board and wanted to bypass the ide interface on the board.
Anyways after a day or two of problem free operation now my drive has suddenly stopped working. Everything seems normal, the ide controller detects the drive and when I reconnect it via sata bios detects it as well. In Windows the drive is there but when I put in a cd of any kind it won't read it. It'll try really hard to read but all I hear is "clunk clunk clunk.....clunk" and more clunks. When the drive is empty it says the drive is empty and asks for a cd so it behaves normally. When I go to burn a cd nero will say the drive is waiting to become active and after a while the drive just opens and waits for me to take out the cd or push it back in and repeat the process.
I'm thinking it might be due to a dead laser but I've barely had this drive for a little less than a year. It's a NEC nd-3540a and the sata adaptor I was using is the Rosewill rc-204 or something similar to that. Is it possible to rma the drive this late? I'm also thinking of getting the Lite-on sata drives that are available just for reading discs and getting another ide dvd rw drive for burning. I'd like to be able to try and fix this if I can before I make any more purchases. Please chime in if you can help, thanks.
Anyways after a day or two of problem free operation now my drive has suddenly stopped working. Everything seems normal, the ide controller detects the drive and when I reconnect it via sata bios detects it as well. In Windows the drive is there but when I put in a cd of any kind it won't read it. It'll try really hard to read but all I hear is "clunk clunk clunk.....clunk" and more clunks. When the drive is empty it says the drive is empty and asks for a cd so it behaves normally. When I go to burn a cd nero will say the drive is waiting to become active and after a while the drive just opens and waits for me to take out the cd or push it back in and repeat the process.
I'm thinking it might be due to a dead laser but I've barely had this drive for a little less than a year. It's a NEC nd-3540a and the sata adaptor I was using is the Rosewill rc-204 or something similar to that. Is it possible to rma the drive this late? I'm also thinking of getting the Lite-on sata drives that are available just for reading discs and getting another ide dvd rw drive for burning. I'd like to be able to try and fix this if I can before I make any more purchases. Please chime in if you can help, thanks.
