Is my cd-writer broken

[Pete202]

Hi !

When I am trying to write a cd with CDRwin ver. 4.0a on windows XP (The CD- Writer is a: HP CD-Writer+9300) I keep getting this error:

"Error: ‘WRITE’ command failed on device 1:1:0
Unrecoverable hardware error (04h 00h 02h 04h 08h 03h)"

I have tried to upgrade with both: "adaptec aspi_471a2" and the newest "Golden Hawk Technology's ASPI driver installation kit"

Can anyone tell me whether this means that my CD-Writer is Broken

Best regards

[Jiggy]

Take a look at these,

link 1 (http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport/ccsearch/displayans?search=0&qry=failed%20on%20device%201:1:0%20&sni=hpcdwriter20027&pname=hp%20cd-writer%20plus%20internal%209300i%20drive&pname_desc=HP%20CD-Writer%20Plus%20Internal%209300i%20Drive&opname=hp%20cd-writer%20plus%20internal%209300i%20drive&lname=hp%20cd-writer%20plus%20internal%209300i%20drive&prodhomesURL=http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/product.jhtml?lc=en%26pagetype=hpcdwriter20027&ctflag=&iqry=&ctry=&lang=en)

link 2 (http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/faqCategory.jhtml?lc=en&pagetype=faq&prodId=hpcdwriter20027&docparent=14900311&cat=TASK_FAQ)

[Pete202]

Thanks!

I have checked it out but I am afraid there weren’t any answers to the error I am experiencing and there doesn’t exits a firmware upgrade for Windows XP either.

Any other suggestions?

[mjc]

The firmware is not for a particular OS it is for the writer.