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need driver for samsung sata SH-S203 dvd burner

Asked by Harry Milliken

I'm a newbie to Ubuntu and so far I love it. I installed a new Samsung sata SH-203 dvd burner as a second dvd drive, and it doesn't show up in my system- computer, however I do see my IDE dvd drive. I believe this is a very new type of drive. I went to Samsung website with no luck.
Thanks for a great product

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Juan C. Villa (juanqui) said : 		#1

Harry,

I am almost certain you will not need a driver to make the dvd-writter work. One thing you might want to look at is how you have connected it in your machine. Generally, when you have two dvd-roms/dvd-writters/etc.. connected, one will act as a MASTER and the other as a SLAVE. This can be configured through jumpers in the back of the dvd-writter (in your case). Can you confirm that you have indeed configured them correctly? One quick way would be to see if when you boot your machine, the bios spits out the presence of both your drives.

Let me know, good luck.

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Harry Milliken (harrymilliken) said : 		#2

Thanks Juan.
I think the difference between the IDE drive and the SATA drive is the problem. There are no jumpers on SATA drives and no master slave . But IDE drives have the jumpers and master salve configuration. I have 2 identical SATA 320 g hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration. UBUNTU had no problem identifying these drives but not so with the DVD burner.

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Harry Milliken (harrymilliken) said : 		#3

Thanks Juan.
I think the difference between the IDE drive and the SATA drive is the problem. There are no jumpers on SATA drives and no master slave . But IDE drives have the jumpers and master salve configuration. I have 2 identical SATA 320 g hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration. UBUNTU had no problem identifying these drives but not so with the DVD burner.

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Juan C. Villa (juanqui) said : 		#4

I was not aware your other driver was SATA. In an SATA bus the drives delegate who's the master and who's the slave by themselves. Can you confirm that the BIOS picks up your drive? You might want to enter the BIOS setup and check, or maybe you can see it in POST screen.

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Harry Milliken (harrymilliken) said : 		#5

The BIOS does see both DVD drives. it see's one on IDE Channel 0 as a slave and the other on SATA Channel 4 as a master.

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Best Steve Leith (stel52) said : 		#6

Hello. I also have a new Samsung sata SH-203 dvd burner and have installed it in a ECS nforce3 mb. I had installed 8.04 64 bit but could not get lightscribe software to work with 64 bit. I installed 32 bit 8.04 (yesterday) and was able to install and use the lightscribe simplelabeler application-- works great.

The dvd burner did not need any kind of driver to work in either 64 bit or 32 bit 8.04 ubuntu. However, I don't think that the dvd burner will allow the computer to boot from it; even though the bios does see and list the the dvd burner at boot time. I had to install using an IDE burner. : (

After installing ubuntu with the IDE burner, ubuntu sees the Samsung sata burner and there is no problem using it.

Why can't the sata dvd drive boot the install cd?

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Harry Milliken (harrymilliken) said : 		#7

Evidently since my 2 dvd drives are identical except for one is sata and the other is IDE they showed up as 1 DVD icon in "computer". I just checked to see if they both would work by putting in an "open office" CD and both of the drives would read the cd. Then I saw 2 icons in "computer" one had a (2) after it. Now both icons show up!
Thanks for the help
Harry

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Harry Milliken (harrymilliken) said : 		#8

Thanks Steve Leith, that solved my question.

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Roy Harrison (uandmee33) said : 		#9

I bought a 750 gb Samsung HD but my PC will not recognise it.

                                                                                                         Roy H