Reading DVD Ram

I have a TSST DVD +- RW TS -H653A SCSI drive. Computer is Dell Inspiron 531
running Vista Home Premium.
The drive will not read DVD Ram disk. Does anyone know if an update is
available to enable this drive to read DVD Ram.
I have been searching, but cannot so far at least, come across an updated
driver.
Any advice would be gratefully received.

Bob

Bob wrote:
> I have a TSST DVD +- RW TS -H653A SCSI drive. Computer is Dell Inspiron
> 531 running Vista Home Premium.
> The drive will not read DVD Ram disk. Does anyone know if an update is
> available to enable this drive to read DVD Ram.
> I have been searching, but cannot so far at least, come across an
> updated driver.
> Any advice would be gratefully received.
>
> Bob

It would be a firmware update, not a driver update, if one was available
for your drive.

Contact Dell to find out the capabilities of the drive you got from them.

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"Bob" <> wrote in message
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>I have a TSST DVD +- RW TS -H653A SCSI drive. Computer is Dell Inspiron
>531 running Vista Home Premium.
> The drive will not read DVD Ram disk. Does anyone know if an update is
> available to enable this drive to read DVD Ram.
> I have been searching, but cannot so far at least, come across an updated
> driver.
> Any advice would be gratefully received.


According to these pages, it can read and write DVD-RAM discs.

http://www.gearxs.com/gearxs/product...oducts_id=8909
http://www.cdfreaks.com/devices/DVD_.../TS-H653A.html

It appears to be a rebranded Samsung SH-S183A. The Japanese companies
stopped making optical drives years ago, and just sell rebranded Korean and
Taiwanese (possibly Chinese as well these days) made drives instead.

Try updating to the firmware to vSB03.
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firm...x?DriveId=1376

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome" <> wrote in message
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>>I have a TSST DVD +- RW TS -H653A SCSI drive. Computer is Dell Inspiron
>>531 running Vista Home Premium.
>> The drive will not read DVD Ram disk. Does anyone know if an update is
>> available to enable this drive to read DVD Ram.
>> I have been searching, but cannot so far at least, come across an updated
>> driver.
>> Any advice would be gratefully received.
>
>
> According to these pages, it can read and write DVD-RAM discs.
>
> http://www.gearxs.com/gearxs/product...oducts_id=8909
> http://www.cdfreaks.com/devices/DVD_.../TS-H653A.html
>
> It appears to be a rebranded Samsung SH-S183A. The Japanese companies
> stopped making optical drives years ago, and just sell rebranded Korean
> and Taiwanese (possibly Chinese as well these days) made drives instead.
>
> Try updating to the firmware to vSB03.
> http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firm...x?DriveId=1376

Are you sure that drive is a SCSI one? If you do update the firmware, make
sure that the SATA version is the same, or find the latest Samsung firmware
for the SCSI version. Any new Samsung firmware is bound to be newer than
anything that Dell may have on their site.

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome" <> wrote in message
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> "Synapse Syndrome" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>>I have a TSST DVD +- RW TS -H653A SCSI drive. Computer is Dell Inspiron
>>>531 running Vista Home Premium.
>>> The drive will not read DVD Ram disk. Does anyone know if an update is
>>> available to enable this drive to read DVD Ram.
>>> I have been searching, but cannot so far at least, come across an
>>> updated driver.
>>> Any advice would be gratefully received.
>>
>>
>> According to these pages, it can read and write DVD-RAM discs.
>>
>> http://www.gearxs.com/gearxs/product...oducts_id=8909
>> http://www.cdfreaks.com/devices/DVD_.../TS-H653A.html
>>
>> It appears to be a rebranded Samsung SH-S183A. The Japanese companies
>> stopped making optical drives years ago, and just sell rebranded Korean
>> and Taiwanese (possibly Chinese as well these days) made drives instead.
>>
>> Try updating to the firmware to vSB03.
>> http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firm...x?DriveId=1376
>
> Are you sure that drive is a SCSI one? If you do update the firmware,
> make sure that the SATA version is the same, or find the latest Samsung
> firmware for the SCSI version. Any new Samsung firmware is bound to be
> newer than anything that Dell may have on their site.
>
> ss.
>Its definitely SCSI, I just rechecked in Device Manager. What do you mean
>when you say that the SATA version should be the same?
I am reading conflicting info about this drive. It does read DVD Ram and it
does not read DVD Ram. I don't know what to believe really!

Bob

"Bob" <> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> Try updating to the firmware to vSB03.
>>> http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firm...x?DriveId=1376
>>
>> Are you sure that drive is a SCSI one? If you do update the firmware,
>> make sure that the SATA version is the same, or find the latest Samsung
>> firmware for the SCSI version. Any new Samsung firmware is bound to be
>> newer than anything that Dell may have on their site.
>>
>Its definitely SCSI, I just rechecked in Device Manager. What do you mean
>when you say that the SATA version should be the same?
> I am reading conflicting info about this drive. It does read DVD Ram and
> it does not read DVD Ram. I don't know what to believe really!

Well there appears to be SCSI and SATA versions of this drive and,
strangely, they seem to both have the same model number. Therefore it makes
updating the firmware a bit risky, as you may need a different version to
the SATA firmware.

Getting a SATA drive that can read and write DVD-RAM is not expensive at
all, so you might consider just doing that.

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome" <> wrote in message
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> "Bob" <> wrote in message
> news:2kvKj.30060$...
>>>>
>>>> Try updating to the firmware to vSB03.
>>>> http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firm...x?DriveId=1376
>>>
>>> Are you sure that drive is a SCSI one? If you do update the firmware,
>>> make sure that the SATA version is the same, or find the latest Samsung
>>> firmware for the SCSI version. Any new Samsung firmware is bound to be
>>> newer than anything that Dell may have on their site.
>>>
>>Its definitely SCSI, I just rechecked in Device Manager. What do you mean
>>when you say that the SATA version should be the same?
>> I am reading conflicting info about this drive. It does read DVD Ram and
>> it does not read DVD Ram. I don't know what to believe really!
>
> Well there appears to be SCSI and SATA versions of this drive and,
> strangely, they seem to both have the same model number. Therefore it
> makes updating the firmware a bit risky, as you may need a different
> version to the SATA firmware.
>
> Getting a SATA drive that can read and write DVD-RAM is not expensive at
> all, so you might consider just doing that.
>
> ss.
Yes I am coming to the same conclusion. Thanks for your interest and
advice.

Bob
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