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etilena · Sun Sep 28, 2003 8:38 pm

How do you find out if it ain't workin anymore? It still reads discs fine though I can't seem to get it to burn CDs properly anymore, and that's writing with data from a HD on a separate IDE channel. In Nero, the buffer goes erratic (usually it's 98-99% full, now it goes from 99-0-50%)

An aside question, what's the difference between Cable Select compared to hard setting it to Master or Slave?

Sun Sep 28, 2003 8:45 pm

Does it have any sort of buffer underrun protection? What error message are you getting?

On a drive without buffer underrun protection, you can get failed burns if you are burning from a badly fragmented hard drive.

Also, in the Misc tab when you tell Nero to burn, what are the Caching settings?

etilena · Sun Sep 28, 2003 8:55 pm

It's a Liteon drive, 24x write. I have it on Secondary Slave.

I used to have a Pioneer DVD-ROM (116-D) on Secondary Master. The Liteon burner worked fine then. It did have some problems burning at 24x on some Ricoh discs back then, but they turned out fine at 16x, so I thought it was a media problem back then.

I recently changed the DVD-ROM to a Pioneer DVD-RW (106-D). Settings are same as before, I've burned one or two discs on the Liteon drive with no problems, it's only been recently it started to show problems. It was even lagging Windows where it'd take 5 secs to register a mouseclick.

I'm not really sure what the problem is though.

eckslax · Sun Sep 28, 2003 8:58 pm

I had a burner that just suddenly refused to burn at full speed without errors. Bumping the speed down fixed the problem, but I still couldn't for the life of me figure out what had happened. This was in an old OEM computer that I rarely work on, let alone open up and mess with.

the_silver_bullet24 · Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:44 pm

Even if it is going, CD Writers are so cheap and so fast it is barely a loss. I could have gotton on for like 30 bucks after rebates one day.

etilena · Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:58 pm

Yeap, they are really cheap at the moment. It's not really an issue with me, I was just wondering if there was a way to find out if it was really dying. I guess it's not worth the effort anyway.

the_silver_bullet24 · Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:04 pm

with my experiences with CD Writers, (I have only owned 2) I think they just start sying. I had an external 2x writer that was used lots and it would start giving off Buffer UnderRun BS and have like a 1% buffer and not to mention the damn thing took an hour to burn a CD Nevermind the Buffer at 1%!!

OutlawRecon · Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:11 am

When in doubt, by a new one! I saw a 52x burner for $30 bucks Canadian the other day.

the_silver_bullet24 · Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:11 pm

OutlawRecon wrote:
When in doubt, by a new one! I saw a 52x burner for $30 bucks Canadian the other day.

Futureshop? I seen that too.

OutlawRecon · Wed Oct 01, 2003 3:31 pm

the_silver_bullet24: Yeah it was Futureshop. It was a no-name brand but really, is the brand of a cd burner going to make that much of a difference??? Are you in Calgary silver bullet?

the_silver_bullet24 · Wed Oct 01, 2003 3:49 pm

Nope Manitoba. LG makes good stuff.

the_silver_bullet24 · Sun Oct 05, 2003 1:39 pm

Here ya go 52x burner 40 bucks after mail in rebate.

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