buffer underrun using yamaha 2100 (8 mb) when cd -> cd

[chrisbest01]

when I use the yamaha 2100 to make cd -> cd, I get buffer underrun, it has 8 megs of buffer, how can it be underrun?

but it has no problem burning from hdd.

the reader is toshiba 16x dvd
software is adaptec ezcd 4.03a and nero 5.0
OS: win98, win2k

 

[Bakwetu]

Depends on what you're burning or more specifically what you are reading. If you are reading a protected cd which only can be read correctly at very low speed you'll get buffer underruns if you try cd to cd. If you are burning music it could also be that your dvd is slow in extracting the files or that the burning program doesn't recognize the dvd and thus don't know what speed it can extract.

 

[phigamman]

CD to CD is just a bad idea, especially across the IDE bus. Odds are your CD devices are the Master and Slave on the Secondary IDE channel (don't put your HDD on a channel with a CD - you'll kill the HDD's performance). It doesn't matter that you have an 8 MB buffer: traffic across two channels of the IDE bus is notoriously congested, moving at the rate of the slowest device on the channel. If you can help it, try to burn from your HDD every time. I have SCSI (see My Rig) and I still burn CD -> HDD -> CD-R to avoid making coasters. For coaster-free living, dump the image to the HDD first! Hope this helps! 🙂

 

[RickH]

Try burning at a low speed, mabe 1X just as a test. Is DMA enabled on the drives?? Rick.