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My Toshiba DVD/CD-RW SD-R2512 wont read any discs at all!

post #1 of 26
11/27/03 at 3:52am
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I know this is not a software problem. It wont even read any audio CDs.
A few months ago, I had first gotten my 5680 and it has worked flawlessly. But now the CD-RW/DVD drive hasn't died, but it just wont read any discs (including CD-RWs and DVDs). I turned the computer off, and placed an audio CD into the drive and turned the CD player on (the front panel player). and the CD didnt load at all. Im thinking the drive needs to be replaced, but maybe I can do something first. I was in the process of moving mass files over to it before the drive quit reading CDs
Do you think reinstalling the hardware drivers would be helpful at all?
The drive is recognized and all and the system spots the drive fine... just it cant read anything. Damn... Toshiba is crap :P
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post #2 of 26
11/27/03 at 4:22am
Have you tried just the Audio DJ controls when the laptop power is OFF?

See if you can play an audio CD that way...

My guess is that the drive is bad (either the drive, the connection, or something); do not think software could screw that up like it sounds.

Did you apply any firmware updates for the drive (and was it for the right one)?

-myrkat
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post #3 of 26
11/27/03 at 4:23am
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Yeah, I did try to play an audio CD using the DJ when it was off. No luck.
Firmware?
Im still a n00b, dont mind me :-p
What gets me is that it worked fine until now. Why would it just stop reading things?
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post #4 of 26
11/27/03 at 4:45am
Same problem different drive

Mine was the Tosh 412 or 212 (dont remember) and it didnt read ANYTHING...

I just shook the laptop and shoved the drive around for a while...NOTHING...almost gave up and then shook again and WALLAH!!! Everything works again...

Toshiba's build quality has not been up to expectations of late...
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post #5 of 26
11/27/03 at 4:48am
Them and PLEXTOR... I remember spending the extra green to get Plextors, now they seem to be as crappy as the next... sigh... everything's goin' down the tubes.

-myrkat
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post #6 of 26
11/27/03 at 5:05am
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I'm cycling the battery life right now (discharge and recharge), I'll try doing that when its charged up tomarrow. I hope it works.

So gsferrari, you had this same problem? o_O
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post #7 of 26
11/27/03 at 5:56am
I have the EXACT same problem and I know what you're going through. Mine also won't read OR write. It won't even read the brand new Nero CD that sager shipped me with. WIndowsXP just hangs. It won't even write either in my Nero. It won't even erase. it just says "write failed" while beginning to write.

when it's browsing its spinning up and down making wierd noises and finally gives me an error. i tried all sorts of data/audio CDs.

finally, i said screw it...RMA it this week ....but then magically the next day, everything seems to be working again. Its SO damn wierd. It happens on and off...

I have a 5680 with the DVD/CDRW Toshiba ..and i hate toshiba! they make crap stuff.

if this toshiba dvd/cdrw messes up again, i'm gonna RMA it for sure. i've wasted 5 good CDRs with it.
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post #8 of 26
11/27/03 at 8:49am
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I'm happy knowing I am not alone here
Is there another brand of disc drive besides Toshiba that can go into the 5680's drive bay?
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post #9 of 26
11/27/03 at 9:17am
wow i can't believe we're all having this problem! Right when I found out this brand of dvd/cdrw was made by Toshiba I questioned its reliability from the point.
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post #10 of 26
11/27/03 at 1:28pm
What I would recommend is detaching and reattaching the CDRW bay to get rid of the possibility of iffy hardware connection.

The nearest thing I had to weird noise on my drive was with a "High Speed Only" CDRW I had lying around for a few years. It never worked with any drive I tried it with but since my 5680's drive had a "High Speed" CDRW (the Toshiba one, as yours) I gave it a try. It started writing fine but then made a tons of crazy noise and then just failed the write. The problem was repeatable with that specifc CDRW disk and never occurred again with any other media Ive tried; the faulty disk was thrown away immediately.
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post #11 of 26
11/27/03 at 1:30pm
I had the problem with the Toshiba drive in a Toshiba laptop - not a Sager...My Sager has a TEAC drive which is a VERY VERY good drive...I have not had a single problem with it so far...and its almost been a year now...
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post #12 of 26
11/27/03 at 3:59pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gsferrari
I had the problem with the Toshiba drive in a Toshiba laptop - not a Sager...My Sager has a TEAC drive which is a VERY VERY good drive...I have not had a single problem with it so far...and its almost been a year now...
Hmmmm... I want a good drive.
Im not even sure how to remove the drive, if someone wants to tell me I'll listen.
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post #13 of 26
11/27/03 at 4:03pm
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Originally Posted by Short Eyes
Hmmmm... I want a good drive.
Im not even sure how to remove the drive, if someone wants to tell me I'll listen.
Service Manual; find a link to a fast mirror (my server) here: http://talknotebooks.com/showthread.php?t=10446
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post #14 of 26
11/27/03 at 4:49pm
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Just removed the drive, blew on the connectors and reinserted it back in. Nothing happened
Maybe it just needs to be replaced.
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post #15 of 26
11/27/03 at 7:11pm
i don't beleive it is the connectors. you see if the connectors fail, then windows and the bios would have trouble detecting or initializing the drive. yet, the bios and windows successffuly detects it fine with no problems whatsoever. that means the connection is fine and the communication I/O is fine.

the problem I believe is the engineering of these toshiba drive.
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post #16 of 26
11/27/03 at 7:36pm
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Im wondering what this TEAC drive that gsferrari is talking about.
I removed the drive, blew on it for a while, shook it around violently and put it back in several times. No luck... DAMN YOU TOSHIBA.
I hope Sager replaces it and gives me a spare drive in case the other fails. :P
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post #17 of 26
11/28/03 at 10:15am
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Originally Posted by GreenDestiny
i don't beleive it is the connectors. you see if the connectors fail, then windows and the bios would have trouble detecting or initializing the drive. yet, the bios and windows successffuly detects it fine with no problems whatsoever. that means the connection is fine and the communication I/O is fine.

the problem I believe is the engineering of these toshiba drive.
If Windows sees the drive fine, have you tried running any diagnostic software on it? There have to be some diagnostic tools out there (from Toshiba, etc). Oh, and I just had an idea (from the fact that some diagnostics run from a DOS boot disk): Get a Win98 boot disk (or any other with CD-ROM support), boot with it and see if the drive works in DOS.
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post #18 of 26
11/28/03 at 12:04pm
My Toshiba SD-R2312 in my 8887 has been working flawless for 9 months or so (got it in Feb. 2002). Have burned many CD's, and read thousands.

In fact, one of my CD's (BF1942: RtR) wouldn't read in my Plextor on my workstation, but read fine in my Toshiba on my Sager (was really finger-printed up - I have kids). After a good cleaning, the Plextor finally read it, but it's REALLY sporadic.

So maybe the Toshiba woes are just a BAD model, not the whole brand.

-myrkat
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post #19 of 26
11/28/03 at 7:10pm
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I'll look into a new drive when I get back into town (out of state right now).
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post #20 of 26
9/16/05 at 6:07am
hi short eyes
if you can send me the device driver for toshiba dvd/cd-rw sd-r2512
i lost it my e-mail is a_maxen@yahoo.com
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