Samsung DVD drive Read one DVD but not another... :confused:

[Sigmark]

Ok I am having a wierd problem with my dvd drive... I have two versions of the Lord of the Rings Movie on DVD. My original version plays fine in my dvd player but when I put in any of the discs for the LOTR extended edition my drive will not read them. It is very odd and I have no Idea what to do. I downloaded samsungs firmware updater but there were no updates to install. I also noticed a funny thing, when there is no disc in the drive and you double click the drive in my computer it gives you the normal "Please insert a disc into drive F:\" but when I have one of the extended edition discs in the drive it pops up with an error message (red circle with white X) and says "f:\ is not accessible Incorrect Function." I have tried everything I could think of and still nothing. I do know that the disc is fine, IE it plays on my friends computer and his dvd player fine. Anyone have any suggestions. Please Help!:confused:

[Sigmark]

Anyone have an Idea? This is bugging me greatly.

[omega31]

Hmmm... You wouldn't be the first to have this problem, and it's not only your dvd make. There was a news post on www.theonering.net dated 14-Nov-2002:
Extended DVD Problems
Tehanu @ 12:08 pm EST

Darren wrote: I passed this along in the boards and the spymaster link, but am sending it to you as well. There is a problem with the new FOTR Special Edition DVD not playing in some DVD ROM drives. Here is the info I got from Interactual tech support.

"We apologize for the problems you are experiencing with the Lord Of The Rings Extended Edition DVD. We have had reports of customers experiencing problems with these discs with several specific DVD ROM drive models. If your computer has one of the following drive models installed, then it is likely that the drive will not recognize any of the discs in this DVD set.

"This is not due to a problem in the way that the discs were created, since they are all fully compliant with the DVD Specification and will play on the majority of DVD equipment. The problem is apparently due to a limitation in the programming of the internal firmware of the drive models in question, and replacing the disc will not resolve the issue.

"We have informed New Line Home Video about these problems, and they are contacting the makers of these drives to ensure that a firmware upgrade is made available to customers which correct this problem.

"The drives that have had problems reported are:
* Samsung SD-616, commonly sold in Dell and HP desktop PC's * LG DRD8160B, commonly sold in Sony, Dell, or Compaq desktop PC's * LG DRN8080B, commonly sold in Compaq and HP laptop PC's

"There are currently no fixes available for the problem at this time. When the problem has been resolved and a firmware upgrade has been released, the manufacturer of your computer system should be able to provide the update to you, and assist if needed with applying the fix to your system.

"We apologize again for the inconvenience."

T: I'm not sure I buy this excuse. If no other DVD has this problem on those drives, and the FOTR one does, then I'd be pointing the finger at the DVDs, not the drives....
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/2/1037293699

Bummer. :(

I can say that it plays with no problems on my Pioneer DVD-A05S, though.

[Sigmark]

DANG IT... It figures. Guess I will be looking around for another dvd player to play it in. Thanks so much for your help.

Not that anyone is interested but this is the Win2k Event log for the problem.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Removable Storage Service
Event Category: None
Event ID: 116
Date: 1/5/2003
Time: 12:00:56 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ***-HOME-1
Description:
RSM could not identify the media in drive Drive 0 of library SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-612S. An error was encountered while attempting to read data from the media.
Data:
0000: 01 00 00 00 ....