CDR-CDRW-HW-SOFTWARE-?

[dargo]

OK, All you whiz kids out there, please give me your input. I recently bought a Memorex CDRW2216 and a ICD 3600 AT CD Rom (Made by IMS). A couple days before that I had upgraded my ABit tx-5 with an AMD K6-200 CPU to a Viking 3 (P5MVP3-AT) and a AMD K6-2/350 CPU. I had several cards installed but have removed all except a second lpt card and the Yamaha OLP3-SA sound card. I've spent almost two months trying to get the CD-Recorder to work. I've "wasted 18 CD-R's". There has been so many errors and hang-ups that it is impossible for me to list all of them. I've tried NTI (which came with the recorder), Adaptec CD-Creator and Direct CD, NERO, GEAR, CJD, CDRWIN and a couple of others. I'm at my wit's end (and my wife's also). Any help, advice, and/or solutions will be greatly appreciated.

[TheCop]

The problem may not be your software. I had similar problems with my burner. The problem for me seemed to be the way I had my IDE devices set up. I am still not sure as to how exactly these should be set up (I never got an answer to my post here) but you may want to try moving them around from Primary and Secondary, Master and Slave.

[BC_1]

Ditto.

Had the same problems when I first started out. My current setup is both my HDDs are connected to IDE1 (P.Master/P.Slave) and my CDROM (S.Master) and CDRW (S.Slave) is connect to IDE2.

Normally, I keep DMA enabled, but whenever I need anything burned, I disable DMA for all my HDDs and my CDRom. I also uncheck "auto insertion detection" in the device manager properties for my CDRom and CDRW as well. After the burn session, I re-enable everything again.

You should also make sure that you disable any power saving schemes as well, especially system standby and harddisk power down.

Haven't wasted a blank CD since.

[This message has been edited by BC_1 (edited 04-22-99).]

[ANTONIO E GUERRA]

I had a very similar problem with an AMD 400 and a Mitsumi Cd-Burner. It was almost impossible to burn a cd. I tried with another AMD 233 and I did not get any sound. In some cases, AMD has several problems with cd-roms(especially Mitsumi). I upgraded all the drivers and everything but did not work. I even installed a patch from Amd and nothing. Eventually I sold the AMDs and I am using my burner in an Intel computer. Believe or not, the burner did not work properly in any of the Amd machines.

[Mntsnow]

Dargo,
The way you need to setup the CDR Burner is to have it on the Secondary MASTER and the source cd-rom drive as the Primary slave. I have a AMD k6-2 350 o/c'd to 400 at 2.2v. I have the BTC 2x2x8 burner. and have NEVER had a problem burning cd's...I also have a 2nd harddrive in my system and it is set as secondary slave. I am running DMA active on all drives! One of the biggest problems is people leave things like Virus scanning progs and screen savers running when trying to burn...THATS A NO NO !! you will end up with lots of coasters http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif the memorex burner you have will work just fine...just take a deep breath and double check your setup and then HAPPY burning http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

GL
Mntsnow

[Ed_S]

Have mine set up on tertiary port on sound card using ISA bus. Sony CD-R as master & NEC 4 disk changer as slave. Both are 6X read, writer is 2X. Working great over 1 year, only 2 coasters out of 50 or 60. This also leaves both MB IDE ports for 4 faster devices, 6 in all. Tertiary port only good for CD drives, as no bios setup. Souncard must be able to setup as tertiary, only one's I know of that work are real Soundblaster Awe 32 or Awe 64.

BTW, using disk changer lets me mix things from 4 cd's in single session, real time saver!

[cpt puget]

www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/chip/3025 (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/chip/3025)

this site has quite a bit of info about cdr/w failures and problems