CD/DVD in Satellite L300 1AM in WinXP- drive runs and stops alternately

Hello
I have bought a new Satellite L300 1AM
I have installed WinXP Home SP3 system (using nLite and SATA driver from Storage Manager), and all drivers from Toshiba website.
I have problem with CD/DVD drive (HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50N):
-copying from CD/DVD on HDD looks like following: for some time (few second upto few minutes) data is copying; then drive slows down and stops, copying is stopped, progress bar does not move; after e.g. 1 minute drive starts to rotate and next part of data is copying. Sometimes system stops to respond and one has to reset computer, sometimes computer restarts automatically...
-listening to audioCD music and watching DVD movies look similar, it easy to imagine...
-uninstaling DVDRAM in Device Manager and restarting system helps a bit, i.e. time of copying becomes a bit longer..., sometimes problem occurs with next CD/DVD in drive
-AudioSilencer do not change anything
-writing on CD/DVD is also impossible - progress bar stops after 1-2 minutes and nothing happens. Yellow diod is still on and to stop process one has to restart system...
What is interesting, drive works perfectly with newest Debian LiveCD version...
Has anybody any ideas???
Thanks in advance
Jan

Hi
SATA driver has been integrated with WinXP CD using nlite - this allowed installer to find HDD and to install system :) Driver has been taken from the Storage Manager package. Later, with system installed, I run .exe from that package again.
Do you think SATA driver should be installed somehow once again?
In IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers I have only one position:
"Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller"
Should I have IDE Channels despite both DVDROM and HDD are SATA?
Lars_3, I agree, it MUST be software problem!
Perhaps something like interference or conflict between programs or drivers...
Drastic solution is to reinstall system completely and to check the correctness of CD/DVD-reading after each newly-installed program or driver... but I would like to avoid this way as long as possible :)
The problems occur with disks of various manufacturers, which work correctly on several other computers
PS CD/DVDs are read correctly also under Debian 5.0.0 installed parallelly on HDD
Jan

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