When I have trouble with "media", I check my drive firmware
and see if they have a newer flash for it... Sometimes it helps.
(Mostly I was never "forced" to flash.)
My Lite-on 48126s seems to be older than yours and works super...

                                       Rick Glazier
From: "Stephan Prince"
>I use a Lite-On 48161H combo CDR Drive in my Micron Computer. I won't recognize certain CD-R media. I put a HP CD-R 48X 700MB Blank
>into the drive and it does not open or recognize it. Is this a Lite-On issue or system issue? This drive is a 48x and works with
>Sony and Memorex media, but not HP or Verbatim media.



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