F:\ is not accessible—incorrect function

**Barracuda** · June 3rd, 2004, 12:20 PM

Hi Guys,

Recently purchased and installed a LG GSA-4081B (an oem dvd/cd reader/writer combo drive). Using a P4 2.0, 512 megs ram, 64mb geforce 4 mx computer from dell, figured it'd be trouble free as the drive was advertised as 'plug and play'.

Playing dvd movies proved to go smoothly. Everything lookin good. However, problems soon arose. When i inserted a blank Maxwell DVD+R into the drive (my F:\), the 'My Computer' screen changed from a DVD drive to a CD-ROM drive...attempting to open this drive...i got the error: "F:\ is not accessible—incorrect function ". Maxwell DVD+R is one of the LG recommended media type for this drive and i tried several of the dvds. Unless they were all broken, i suspect the problem lies elsewhere. I checked out the LG websites for newer drivers and found nothing. Has anyone experienced a similar problem? Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Help please!
Tom

**geoscomp** · June 3rd, 2004, 12:59 PM

what dvd burning software are you running?
what OS?
what service paks?

**Barracuda** · June 3rd, 2004, 01:05 PM

nero 6,
windows xp home,
and SP1 respectively.

**hudsonsmith** · June 3rd, 2004, 03:44 PM

Do you have the latest firmware?

The A104 firmware update increases compatibility with DVD-ROMs

See here.

**Barracuda** · June 3rd, 2004, 04:04 PM

Installed the most recent drivers and got the same error. Tried putting a CD-R in there and got the same error. No problems readin when i put in a cd burnt on my normal CD-R drive....

The problem seems to be in identifying/opening blank media...no clue why.

Here's a pic of "my computer", <img src="http://img4.photobucket.com/albums/0603/Alucard/wtfff.jpg">

A, C, and D drives were already here before. E and F came up when i installed the new drive.

Not knowing too much about computers, might it be any problem with the fact that this lg drive is setup as a slave to my other cd-rw drive?

Thanks for any help guys.

**DocPC** · June 3rd, 2004, 04:09 PM

Make the DVD burner the master and the other the slave. Use a 40 conductor cable, not an 80.

Are you saying that when you installed the DVD burner it appeared as 2 drives?

**FatalException0E** · June 3rd, 2004, 04:42 PM

You're not just slapping in a blank DVD-R then going into My Computer to try to look at it, are you? I guess that might work if you're using InCD for packet writing. (Does packet writing work with DVD?)