D:\ is not accessible 1

[plesneski]

A client has a Aopen CD-RW 4048 drive. She tells me she downloaded Real Player and then this drive started acting up, after deinstalling Real Player, and God only knows what else, The drive doesn't work. She is running Win2K, SP4, set up as secondary master.When the drive is accessed she gets "D:\ is not accessible, The request could not be performed because of an I/O error". In event viewer I see "The driver detected a controller error on \Devise\CDROM0" "Error 11" The drive light has a steady rapid blinking going on.
Things I have tried:

*Disconnected the ribbon cable and reconnected.
*Uninstalled the drive and rebooted and let windows find and re-install.

Any instight regarding this is appreciated.

Paul

 

[temporello]

Ms says this:

This problem is typically caused by a failing cable that connects the drive to the computer.


User Action
Replace the cable

 

[micker377]

and God only knows what else"

Run SFC and see if it replaces any missing OS files.

 

[MaxLinux2004]

I had a similar problem a year ago with my Aopen CD/DVD-ROM drive. Not related to the Real Player though. After going to a lot of sites searching for answers, it was recommended to flash the firmware to a newer version. So I did. And it worked. Never had a problem since then. I don't know about your drive but... I don't recommend you to flash the firmware if you don't know how to do it. Try it in another machine first and see if it will work. If it doesn't, then try to flash it.

 

[plesneski]

Thank you all for the posts, I'll try your suggestions hopefully tomorrow, and report back...

 

[edfair]

And take a look in the mangler to see if there is anything related to the channels.
If you haven't yet, take it through a cold boot.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Lemon13]

@plesneski, the real player comes these day´s with a burning software for cd, it might have replaced the aspi.sys on the system. i recommend to replace aspi.sys , best would be to run sp4 once more.

 

[rayme87]

hi i had 2 cd drives a cd-rw drive and a dvd-rom and i changed the cd-rw drive with a dvd-rw drive and it works fine but my old dvd-rom now gets a f:\ is not accessible the request could not be preformed because of an i/o device error.
i need some help thank you.
Ray

 

[garebo]

To rayme87:
I think you should make a new post with your problem separate as plesneski still has to have his prob sorted out here.


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[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060

And to Ed Fair: I honestly do not thing most users understand the "mangler" reference. I get it, but it strikes me as less-than-obvious as a pun. You used to not be this lazy and type "Device Mangler".

Best regards,
Bill Castner

 

[nufeybear]

Windows XP. CD-writer died on me. My own fault cleaning it. Would not close to start with and could read nothing on a cd. Replaced it with one from a friend, no software came with it, my version of software not on website to download, so downloaded higher version, will not work. I tried to use my dvd-rom, but now get error ' request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. What have I done!!!!! How can I fix these things.

CD-writer is LG Electronics, the dvd-rom came with machine, Compaq 5000 series. Only the dvd rom is listed under the device manager, says nothing wrong.

 

[garebo]

To Nufeybear:

I think you should make a new post with your problem separate as plesneski still has to have his prob sorted out here.

plesneski posts his problem.
rayme87 chimes in with his problem.
nufeybear chimes in with yet another problem.

I've seen it said here a thousand times that one should make their own thread rather than posting their issues on someone elses thread!

Its often hard enough to help one person let alone 3 different issues in one post like we have here. Its certainly not fair to plesneski and pretty rude, period.

If you have an issue, a problem you cant solve, and you want some help with it, make your own thread, a simple, common-sense rule in all forums.




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