I have been researching the same problem. I have two drives that Vista is
not recognizing as burners. I cannot burn in Media Player or Media Center but
Imgburn recognizes my DVD burner for what it is and I have used it
successfully. In the device manager both drives are listed as SCSI CD ROM
devices. I saw a post on the net where someone solved this by replacing the
installed driver with a Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller driver.
Problem is he did not explain how he did this. Can anyone help with how to
find and install a standard PCI IDE driver in my Vista machine to replace the
SCSI driver that is there now?

"rrayw747" wrote:

My Pioneer dvd writer and NEC cd drive worked with no problem with ultimate,
and then I installed pemiere, they worked for about a week and suddenly
disappeared.
I guess I'll reinstall Vista....drives are fine on other HD with XP

"Pfarn" wrote:

Make sure you are using an 80 pin cable. XP doesn't seem to care, but Vista might. I had a similar problem with a Sony DVD drive with an Nvidia chipset on the motherboard. It wouldn't recognize it at all, and it complained about my CD writer, although it reads from it alright.

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