Burn Proof not burn proof

[jaylee11]

I have a lite-on 24x that keeps running out of cached memory, hence coasters. This only happens when I try to copy cd's, its fine from the hard drive. I have the cd-rom as the slave on the primary ide channell, and the cd-writer as the master of the secondary ide channell. Is this configuration correct? I'm using nero 5.5. It tells me that the burn proof is activated but it just wont copy some older cd's. Any ideas?

 

[kly1222]

Your setup is okay. Is DMA enabled for both cdrom drives? You might have a problem with your cdrom reader not being able to read the older discs. Have you tried making an image of one of those older cd's to your hard drive first?

 

[Slacker]

What quality is the cdrom? and what speed?

 

[jaylee11]

I have tried to make a copy of the cd-rom to the hard drive and that wont work either. The cd-rom is an inexpensive one, 56x. Under win xp how do I check to see if dma is enabled, I cant seem to find it.

 

[kly1222]

If you can't even copy it to your hard drive, it's your cdrom.

 

[jaylee11]

Think I can copy it from my cd writer to the hard drive and then back to the cd writer? Think I'll try that and then steal a better cd-rom from one of my other systems.

 

[kly1222]

<< Think I can copy it from my cd writer to the hard drive and then back to the cd writer? >>



That should work 🙂

Unless it's not the cdrom that's the problem, but your cd's. Are the cd's a good condition (not scratched)?

 

[SonicTron]

You'll probably have to make an ISO image of the CD you are trying to copy, otherwise it might not read correctly after you burn it.

 

[jaylee11]

it must be the cd rom. I burned an image to the hard drive and she copied fine to the hard drive, and then perfectly to the writer. Oh well, I only paid $15 for this cd-rom from office max brand new. I'll just switch it out for another that I have. Thanks everybody. You guys rock! I have yet to have a problem that hasnt been solved here.

 

[erikiksaz]

Just to check if DMA is enabled: Head into Control Panel, then System, Then Hardware, Device Manager, and open the IDE/ATAPI Controller tree. From there, go to the properties of the Primary and Secondary IDE controllers, and under one of the tabs there will be an option to use any available form of DMA. I think that should be right, it was off the top of me head 😛

 

[eplebnista]

Here is a link to a LiteOn Forum. I had a problem with enabling the DMA and the solution was to manually configure the drive in the BIOS as PIO4 Mode, instead of Auto.

hth,
eplebnista