Hi,

Hope someone can help with a problem I have, similar but not identical to a couple of other threads I've read here.
I bought a Sony DW-U18a which also goes under possibly Sony DRU530 and is apparently a rebranded Liteon SOHW-812S DVD+-RW. OEM, wish I'd shelled out for the drivers now.
It reads and plays DVDs through WinDVD 6, it reads and writes CDs, it's listed as a DVD-RW drive in My Computer, but when I insert a blank DVD-R it changes in My Computer to simply "CD ROM". The media it lists is DVD-R but says it has no bytes free and refuses to write to it. I tried Nero 6 (newly downloaded today) which also picks it up as a DVD-RW drive but ejects the DVD-R and tells me to put in a CD-RW instead.
It sounds like a driver-type problem to me as it plays DVDs fine. Windows has chosen cdrom.sys as the driver. I tried driver update on the hard disk and the XP SP1a installation disk but no joy. I've installed all the drivers from the (ASUS) motherboard CD. I've run Windows Update and updated the drivers from there.
Looking on Sony and LiteOn websites it appears to require only the Win XP driver. Neither site has drivers I can see.

Any ideas? In-place OS repair in case it missed a driver?
Many thanks in advance for any help. I'd really love to get this baby working!
Dralip.