Stupid geek in me upgraded without any particular reason the firmware of the DVD+-RW TS-L632H I have in an old Inspiron 1525 to version DW30, the latest available from the Dell site.
Until then the drive functioned flawlessly. After the upgrade and os restart, the drive died completely. It is viewed and "works properly" in control panel, but I cannot eject it, its led doesn't light up and it is basically unusable.
I tried uninstalling the drivers from controlpanel and then let the os reinstall them, downgrade the firmware to dw20 and then dw10 and still no luck. The drive cannot be ejected and looks like its power cable is unplugged.
Bios version is A17 and the system has XP/Linux in dual boot mode. The problem persists on both os's.
Please suggest me a solution!