I thought I would be smart and pick up a cheap dvd burner for my asus

I have a usb - ide (pata/sata) cable which works perfectly for any drive I have tried it on but for some reason I can't get the dvd to work.

The burner is a samsung SH-S222L lightscribe and is supposed to be PATA/IDE . I set it to slave but have tried all other options when that failed.

any help appreciated..dB

Not enough power maybe?

the dvd has an external 12V/5V power supply - it seems to spin etc when not connected , just shuts down when i plug in the ide cable ?? ..dB

Oh. I thought that maybe you were trying to power it off USB.

Assuming the drive works elsewhere, I have no idea why it wouldn't work with the adapter.

Sounds like they're not compatible. Try a cheap PATA/IDE card?

this is what I am thinking, just not sure why.

it is for a netbook so pci card will unfortunately not do the trick.

thinking I will just cut my losses and get rid of it. Mostly wanted it to play with and burn selection discs for the car and family picture dvd's for the grandfolk ..dB