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Need help with CD-R....Please

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I just installed a new DVD and CD-R/RW. Previously I had a SCSI CD-ROM and CD-R/RW. I decided to go all IDE. I now have a Pioneer Slot DVD and Plextor 12X10X32 Burnproof. I put the DVD as slave to the IBM HD and then the Plextor as secondary master. I reinstalled Win2K and then installed the Intel INF update, Intel Security update, and Intel Ultra ATA Storage Driver. After that I installed all the windows updates (SP-1 and etc.). I then wanted to give it a try so I installed Nero.

Here is the problem. Every time I try to burn a CD I get an error. I get it when trying to write at any speed. What have I done wrong?

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what is power calibration error. i used to get this error on my cd-rw now it it dead. it is detected and a icon still shows up in windows, but it cant read cds or write cds. any ideas?
 
I ran into the same problem, found that if I had ezcd in the tray I couldn't burn with nero. I shut down the adaptec software and nero works great.
 
Your problem is the Intel ATA Drivers. This is a known issue with these drivers, and you should either uninstall them, or try the new 6.10 beta drivers. General results with these new drivers are that people are now able to burn, but they are still a bit dodgy. Best thing to do is get rid of them completely and simply use the Microsoft drivers.
 
andy is the Intel ata driver refer to ata100 ? If yes, right now i am putting my teac 4x4x32 cdrw on intel ata100 channel it works great on mine. Is it only happen to 12x cdrw ?
 
The ATAPI CDRW problem with the Intel ATA drivers occurs with any CDRW drive capable of DMA mode. The Plextor drive is one of them, as are most of the newer drives.

Some people are able to get away with being able to burn CDRs/CDRWs with the Intel ATA drivers installed when they manually set the maximum transfer rate in the Storage Companion to PIO mode 4....ie NOT DMA mode.

ALstonLoong: Your 4x4x32 Teac drive is probably running in PIO mode, rather than multi-word DMA, which is why you have no problems.
 
andy yeah i am using pio mode for my burner.I rememeber i read a page, for burner is better running in pio rather then dma mode. isnt it right ?
 
I have fixed the problem. It was the Intel drivers. After uninstalling them, everything works great.

Thanks
 
after you uninstall the intel ata100 driver, i think it will slow down your harddrive perfomance right? why dont you just set the cdrw mode to pio mode?
 
well some already automatically set it to dma ......emm i dont know where else can set to pio....emm....i think have to wait for our guru andy for help too.
 
I just looked in the BIOS and saw that I could disable DMA for the CD-R. The DVD already had it disabled. Should the PIO be set to 4 and will this solve my problem and give me better HD performance once I reinstall the Intel drivers?
 
yeah i set it to pio and install the intel ata100 driver .......my harddrive perfomance jump up to the level suppose to be. you can do a benchmark with hdtach to see the harddrive perfomance difference.
 
You can set the maximum transfer rate to PIO mode 4 using the Storage Companion that comes with the ATA Drivers. Double click on the wrench next to the setting, select which PIO mode you want and then reboot.
 
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