What drives are recognizeable

[mij]

I have inherited this computer from my son.

I am not sure what the drives are, it has two DVD/CD drives but I can only see one at any one time (that I recognize anyway) in Belaarc advisor.

 

I thought the lower one did not write to discs but it reads them fine.

The top one I didn't think worked at all yet when I tried it this morning it formatted a previously written to +R disk which I thought was a read only disk.

This is all very confusing.

Reading the mail here I thought of getting the alternative so I could deal with - and + WR disks.

What's the advice?

Cheers

jim

PS Here's the read-out of the drives

Drives Memory Modules c,d 500.11 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity

284.01 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

 

TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H653L [CD-ROM drive]

 

EPSON Stylus Storage USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 5

Generic USB CF Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2

Generic USB MS Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4

Generic USB SD Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1

Generic USB SM Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3

ST3500418AS [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n V60MYJ1S, SMART Status: Healthy 2046 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

 

Slot 'A0' has 512 MB

Slot 'A1' has 512 MB

Slot 'A2' has 512 MB

Slot 'A3' has 512 MB Local Drive Volumes

 

 

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 500.11 GB 284.01 GB free Network Drives

[mij]

Oooops! I'm getting two computers mixed up!

This one has only one drive but until today was choosy about reading/writing anything. Now it seems to do both no problems. It has only one drive, the one shown. It has space for a second CD/DVD and I would like to put something in there to cater for those disks it wont presently read/write to.

 

The other (spare) is a Dell with two CD/DVD drives and that is the one I wanted to find out if the drives are useful or not. I'd better use BA again tomorrow to find out what drives it has. Sorry about the confusion - just goes to show how confused I am here.

cheers

jim

[mij]

Ok have done a BA on the other machine. It has XP home on it, is a Dell with a 40g disk and 512 Mb of RAM. It has two cd/dvd disk units a

 

Lite-On LTN486S 48x Max [CD-ROM drive] and a

 

TEAC DVD+RW DV-W58E [CD-ROM drive]

 

and a

 

3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

 

I know these are fussy about what they write/read but don't have much of a clue as it was my wife's until she replaced it with an all dancing/singing thingy with touchy-feely screen etc. I only had it a short while when my lad gave me this one which is faster and more memory - but just the one cd/dvd drive as mentioned.

 

What I want to know is what cd/dvd drive do I get to go in the other slot?

Cheers

jim

[Jelly Bean]

You need to download the Liteon software to burn disks I belive:

 

Lite-On IT Corporation Europe - Utilities

 

And for the Teac:

 

Software Download : TEAC Corporation Data Storage Products Division

[mij]

You need to download the Liteon software to burn disks I belive:

 

Lite-On IT Corporation Europe - Utilities

 

And for the Teac:

 

Software Download : TEAC Corporation Data Storage Products Division

 

Thanks I'll try those first.

cheers

jim