How to make a LiteOn burner work under Win98?

[GreenGhost]

Hi,

Maybe you can help me save some coasters by telling me the tricks that would make my Newegg's LiteOn 12x work. I'm getting buffer underrun errors (copy from CD to CD and from HD to CD). It stops near the end of burning (about 80% done, 7 minutes, both times I tried).

my setup:
both the CD-ROM and CD-RW have DMA enabled;
CD-RW is master of secondary channel, CD-ROM is slave of primary IDE channel;
I'm using Easy CD Creator, updated to 4.0.3;
CD-ROM is a brand-new Sony 52x;
Windows 98, Abit BH-6;
No problems detected during installation of drives.
No other application running during burning.

Reviewing the comments in previous threads I've seen some people recommending turning DMA off, but many say that's not a problem. Some people don't like Adaptec's software, and many have reported problems with Win 2000.

If you had similar problems making the LiteOn work, can you share how you solved them? Does anybody still have problems with this burner under Win98?

Thanks,

GreenGhost


PS: please refrain from posting "buy a Plextor", and "Nero rocks" comments. I've heard them enough. Have a good day (& weekend).

 

[ganesha]

I guy I work with had a similiar problems with his LiteON from Newegg. It actually stopped working and would no longer be detected in the bios. He just got his replacement a couple days ago and it works fine in 98 using Roxio's EZCD Creator 5.

Did you try different brands of CD's? Or burning different kinds of CD's-music or data?

 

[AnMig]

I thought those lite on from newegg had some form of burn proof technology?? Why the buffer underun? also curios since I am considering in buying one.

 

[bonkers325]

your prob is ezcd 4.03 has no burnproof support

 

[GreenGhost]

I just had one brand of cd-r's (Sony). This is my first burner. I was also disappointed when I read the error message and it said buffer underrun error. I didn't know that for Burnproof to work you needed support from the software side.

 

[chaotic]

What you could try (temporarily) is to select a lower burn speed (10x or 8x)... I've had buffer underruns from my CD-CD copies before, and that seemed to help for a little while.