SATA Optical Drives become unresponsive

[FishCow]

Hi all,

I have a new install of SL but having some issues with optical drives.

 

I have 2 x SATA DVD drives installed.

1) Pioneer DVR-216

2) Samsung SH-S223B

 

Both work fine and I can boot from either of them if I need to, BUT . . .

If I leave media in one of them (DVR-216), without accessing for a while, it just shuts off .. no power.

I have to reboot to get them back.

If I play movies or continually access the drives - they stay functional.

If I don't put anything in them, they stay alive as well.

 

I read in another thread that someone believes (in their case) that having "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" in Energy Saver was the cause of the problem.

Unchecking this option seemed to solve the issue - but not for me.

 

Any ideas?

Regards

Fish

[SA22C]

I have the same issue. The fix is to never leave a disc in the drive. When you're done using it, eject. If the drives remain empty, the issue never occurs for me.

[Smoc]

Try to uncheck "put drives to sleep when possible" under Energy Saver (System preferences)

[FishCow]

SOLVED

It turns out it was only the Pioneer Drive causing the issue in my case.

I updated the firmware to 1.09 (from 1.03) on the DVR-216 and the problem went away.

 

I left media in both drives over night and let the computer sleep.

Both drives work without issue after waking.

 

I also don't sleep my hard drives.

[ANARCHiNTOSH]

same problem here...

i'll try updating firmware and unchecking 'put drives to sleep when possible'