Pioneer DvD burner

[HiroPhrozeN]

i bought a Pioneer dvd burner ( DVR-A09XLA ) and i can watch movies and play games read cd's etc, but wen it comes to burning dvds i either get communication error or mainly a DMA error, its really annoying as hell, since i sent it in for warrenty repair and what happend install it and get dma error 20secs into burning i just feel lost for words at this. im using nero7 to burn, and ive upgraded every thing to do with the burner, if tryed burning at lowest speed, ive gone through like 10dvds. it took like a month to get it repaired and its still stuffed, like arn't pioneer ment to be one of the best wen it comes to optical drives.

edit. looking at the nero7 error log it says dma mode is off, could that be a possible problem? if so how do i switch it on, it says all my drives and hdd has dma off so i didn't think any thing of it.

 

[BoboKatt]

Oh man well in control panel under system and then Devices or Hardware (forget now) in XP.. look at your IDE/SATA controller. Open that up and check to see what everything is running at. Generally it's set to LET BIOS choose but then you have to make sure your BIOS is allowing or recognizing or is set to AUTO. I have never had to fiddle with this and always on my newer system (AMD64 X2 3800+ with a MSI Neo2 Plat board) it just always had it enabled. If you truly have the DMA disabled you for SURE will have many issues with burning.

 

[HiroPhrozeN]

i looked at what u said, finding it in Nvidia nforce4 parallel ATA controller and it is set to ULtra DMA 4 - Ultra66. let bios select transfer mode was enabled

and wen i set pioneer an email the first time round they said the minium was ultra66.

also im not sure if it matters but i have Epox 9npa nforce4+ultra mobo and 4200+ amd duelcore cpu and win xp.

 

[HiroPhrozeN]

bump.