CD-drive know how sought -

[HLinderoth]

After a reinstall of the OS (Win2KPRO) and reinstall of drivers my two CD:s (a master r and slave r/w on IDE channel 2) behaves mysteriously -

Both have trouble reading and, when tried on the same CD, in the the event viewer -
. the master r generates an ERROR and is stated as "having a bad block"
. the slave r/w generates a WARNING and is stated as having "problems in paging operation"

IDE Channel 2 is set to "DMA if available" which on my system means both devices run on UDMA.

Where/How can I beging troubleshooting this? Is there CD-Diagnostic software around? Or some site delivering info and drivers to all sorts of CD:s. My problem is I don't have any documentation for the CD-R (a no-name kind of something). The CD-RW is a BenQ.

Regards
HLinderoth

 

[mcall]

curious, why did you have to reinstall OS? Did sys throw errors or were you just wanting clean OS? If throwing errors, may need to research that first/also. If just to clean OS, doubt tester will show anything worthwhile. Have you checked MB manufacturer for board specific drivers?