When I first got a CD Burner I Didn't place the Drives on the same IDE
Controller. I had one
slaved to my hard drive on one controller and the burner by itself (if i
could help it) on the
other controller. My Current Configuration since I upgrade my Mobo, is of
course having the HD
on the UDMA 66 Controller. I have my burner on one IDE controller by
itself, and the CDROM drive on
the other Controller by itself. This arragement is perfect 95% of the time.
Sometimes I just get
a CD that simply will not burn. Either of Copy Protection or just its a
game with DATA
on track 1 and music on the other tracks, Seems as though Nero and Adaptec
do not like this at all, and
causes serious buffer underrunns.
--Patrick Black
Certified CCNA
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From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Pamela Leming
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 6:44 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Burning CD's
I'm having a problem burning CDs. I have a Packard Bell Intel Pentium MMX
200
MHz system with 96 MB RAM. I have one 4 GB HD partitioned into two 2GB
partitions. Each partition has about 600 MB free space. I have a 40x CDROM
and a Creative CD-RW RW6424E CD writer as a slave to the 40x drive. I use
Nero
Burning CD software, recently upgraded to version 5.
I've read through the archives here and have tried all the advice I could
find.
I've closed down all running programs, turned off screen saver, made sure no
power-saving features of hard drive and monitor were running, turned off
virus
scanning program, etc. However, I'm still having problems. When I first
got
the drive less than a year ago, I would run into occasional problems
creating
copying or writing to a new CD (write errors
, buffer overrun, etc). I would
usually get one of those per session, and chalked it up to a bad disc. I
don't
use the drive very often...since buying it maybe 9 months ago, I've used it
to
burn maybe 25 CDs. However, lately, I can't get it to finish the process at
all.
I always used "on the fly" method to make new CD, but after getting errors
on
3 or 4 tries, I finally created an image and used "burn image". The image
gets
created just fine, but the burn process stops anywhere from 1% to 15% of the
way
through the creation of the new CD. The only error message I get is the
"write
error" message. I went through a whole box of 10 CDs and never got ONE to
work.
I've had these problems using both version 4 and version 5 of the software.
When I upgraded to the version 5 of Nero, the wizard did suggest that both
of
my drives were on the same bus and, to avoid buffer overruns, to corr
ect that.
Is that because I have the burner as a slave to the other? If so, I would
think
that creating an image would eliminate the first drive and it wouldn't
figure
into the picture?? Even using the image I still get write errors and the
burn
process stops.
The very last time (and using my LAST CD), I got through about 15% of the
process and accidentally bumped my mouse. The process IMMEDIATELY stopped
and I
got the write error. Is the process really that sensitive to something else
running in the background, even a mouse move?
Any help or info would be greatly appreciated.
Pam
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