Been having a very consistently irritating issue with my fancy expensive Pioneer Blu-ray drive - yeah, another problem with it.
Sometimes you cycle the tray and it gets stuck in some bizarre software null state? I can't be sure if it's the drive firmware or something in Windows, but a common scenario is I've just burned a disc in ImgBurn, then ImgBurn automatically cycles the tray before verifying, and after the tray closes again... Nothing. ImgBurn nor Windows itself seems to recognize the disc is back in. The drive itself seems just fine, it spins the disc for a second to recognize the type and then slows down and waits for a command, but nothing ever comes. There's a total communication breakdown somewhere.
And like, it's bad. It fucking hangs everything. ImgBurn is stuck at the "Cycling Tray before Verify" step, and if you try to cancel the operation or close the program, it starts to do those things but never finishes aborting the task or closing itself. If you click the exit button a second time, ImgBurn even has the snark to give a pop up saying "Be patient, I heard you the first time!" but of course continues to just hang unless I break out Task Manager.
You can't look at the optical drive in Explorer when this happens. It will fucking hang Windows Explorer. Sometimes you can't even look at the "This PC" window that lists the optical drive, you'll just get a blank screen and and endless loading bar.
Sometimes this issue seems to magically fix itself and the drive starts registering properly again. But most of the time, the only solution is a complete reboot - and sometimes even that fucking hangs and I have to kill the power to the computer after it sits at the "Restarting..." spinning dots for ten fucking minutes. This should definitely not be happening, right?
Fortunately you can do the Verify bit with ImgBurn separately, but man is it really fucking annoying to have basically my whole computer hang because my Blu-ray drive just, I dunno, decided to stop talking to the computer? Or the computer decided to stop talking to the drive? I genuinely don't know what could be wrong here.
The simplest solution would be "update your drive firmware!" But if the problem is in the drive's firmware version then I'm fucked, because I can't update it, because the only update newer than the version it's currently running is the update that breaks LibreDrive, which makes it a lot less useful for playing and ripping blu-rays. And if that update only served to patch that security hole, then it probably wouldn't fix my issue anyways.
Anyways time to forcefully reboot my PC again and hope nothing corrupts.