Burning problems! help ~~

[ku]

I have a generic 8x dvd player (48x) and 16x10x40 liteon cd-rw. A long time ago, I was able to copy cds on the fly. Now I can't do that. I've tried different IDE bus combinations and It just doesn't seem to work. It gives me "Communication error, Analysis of CD failed" or similar to that in NERO. Could anyone tell me what happend here?

 

[Mitzi]

Do the CDs copy ok if you copy the source to the hard drive first?

Is DMA enabled on both drives?

What sort of CDs are you trying to copy (music, copy-protected cds, data cds)?

What happens if you try to copy the cd at a slower speed - i.e. 8x?

 

[nealh]

Were you able to on-the-fly burn at 16x with your setup...I concur with Mitzi try slowing the speed and see if it works

 

[ku]

Mitzi: I can't put the CD onto the hard drive with my DVD drive but I can with my cd-rw drive. Then it burns fine.
DMA is enabled on both drives.
I've tried audio cds, data cds, vcds, etc... none of them work.
I have the same problem at lower speeds.

EDIT: Is there some IDE bus combination I have to use? I have my DVD drive on Primary Slave and my CD-RW on Secondary Master

 

[Zenmervolt]

<<Mitzi: I can't put the CD onto the hard drive with my DVD drive but I can with my cd-rw drive. Then it burns fine.>>

FWIW, this sounds to me like a problem with your DVD drive. You should be able to make an image file of the CD with the DVD drive. If the DVD drive is taking extra time to realise that it has a disk in it (as in, autoplay takes longer than normal or something like that), I'd suspect that. I understand that LiteOn makes a nice DVD drive that can rip audio at full drive speed (20X-48X I think), you may want to look at it as an option to replace the existing DVD drive.

ZV

 

[ku]

thanks. I think it may be my dvd drive is failing. I think it takes longer to spin up and seek than it is supposed to. I'll look into it =P

 

[ku]

ERG... seems like mode 1 data cds work. nothign else does though. anyone know why?

 

[ku]

TT

 

[ku]

nvm... a firmware flash fixed it ^^... it was hard to find the flash for a generic drive T_T