CD-Burner problems

[Kenny Graves]

I just got this CD-Burnwe. Memorex CRW 1622 and when I'm copying CD to CD it keeps ejecting the CD beinh copied too around 75%. Why does thsi do that? I lose a CD each time that happens.

[kwai]

some cds have a copyright protection scheme that will prevent common burning software (ie adaptec stuff) from making a copy.

[Mntsnow]

and again i would check on your power management scheme and make sure you have NO other programs running in the background...virus checks, screen savers ect.

another thing you can try to do is first copy the cd to harddrive and then copy from the harddrive to the burner....the harddrive is able to feed the information to the burner in a more stable fashion....the memorex burner has a fairly small buffer....if your cd rom that has the cd in it spins DOWN durring the burning process you end up with a buffer underun and bingo.you now have a coaster!

also what is your setup? are the Rom and Burner on the same IDE cable or not...which is master/slave on what cable ect.

keep us updated to what you have checked and what results you had..

Mntsnow

[Kenny Graves]

Thanks lots. The burner and the Cd-rom drive are on the same IDE cable. The burner is secondary master and the CD-rom drive is secondary slave. Also I did try to copy with other stuff running in the background and had the screen saver running once also. Also should I compeltely turn off power manangement? And some times the Cd-rom drive does down spin. I did try to copy to the hard drive first but stoped becazuse it was taking like 5 hours. Anyway anymore ideas would help.

[Mntsnow]

This is what I would do as it has worked for me!

Make Burner MASTER on 2nd cable
Make CD-Rom SLAVE on 1st cable (if you have 2 hard drives put 2nd hard drive as slave behind burner)
Go into your power profile and set it to NEVER powerdown. (and save this profile as CD BURN so you can choose this profile when you are going to burn stuff and when done change back to your "normal" power profile)
TURN OFF screen saver before you start burning.

Since doing this I have yet to make a "frizbie"

Enjoy burning away! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Mntsnow

[bobcat]

This also takes longer, but if you can test while coping, it will pretend to burn the cdrom all the way though. If it makes it, it will then copy it the second time around. If it fails, then it really didn't burn anything and you can try another CDROM.

Another possible problem is running a LAN. If you have one, create a profile for CD-Rom burning. Boot into that profile and disable the NIC card. I had this problem.