PlexWriter 12/10/32A Problem

[75frosty23]

I am having no success in burning any Audio CD using the Plexwriter 12/10/32A and a Pioneer 115 DVD/CD-Rom. Using the latest Version of Adaptec Easy CDCreator (4.03) my computer has no problem burning a Data type CD. However, when I place an Audio (Music) type disk into the Pioneer cd-rom reader, the computer locks up with the usual hour-glass spinning endlessly. I can only use the task manager, CTL-ALT-DEL, to check the situation , and when I do, it shows that Creatr32 (Adaptec Easy CDCreator) is not responding. When I close the CReatr32 task, I then get a message stating in a small window of the CD copier task stating "The RPC Server is Unavailable".

I believe this may be a software problem as a result of being able to burn copies of Data type Disks. I am currently using a MSI 6337 MoBo with the intergrated sound option enabled as I have not yet selected a sound card. Could this lack of having an installed sound card and its associated software preventing me from burning audio CD's

Thanks in advance for any help you could provide

 

[gplracer]

Try using the regular cd-r not the audio one. My plextor burns perfect audio and data cds. I have never bought an audio cd. They just cost more. I buy the ones at compusa that are $9.99 minus a $5 rebate for $4.99.

 

[Usul]

Use regular cd, and try to disable the on the fly tag

 

[Stealth1024]

I have the same two drives. Mine work perfectly after I disabled a few of the startup items. For example, three different programs were loaded during WinME startup and placed in the system tray. All of them were looking for a blank CD to be inserted.

 

[Stealth1024]

By the way 75frosty23. Is DMA enabled on both your DVD and CDR drive? Whenever I enable DMA on my Plextor, WinME fails to see it. Whenever I enable DMA for my Pioneer it is disabled on the next reboot. Each is on its own IDE channel alone. Any ideas? I believe the fact that DMA is not working might account for jittery DVD playback.

 

[Deceiver]

I caught this from an earlier article on the 12/10/32A drive. It has helped me a little. If you got the retail kit, there is a jumper that comes with the drive. If you place it on the jumper spot on the back of the drive (to the left of the digital audio output), it will enable ultra dma. Before I had this only DMA was active (that's what win2k said). I heard that only through this jumper can DMA be enabled. I don't know why Plextor didn't mention this in their documentation, or if this truely is for UltraDMA. Also are both drives on the same IDE channel? Anyone know how well it works to make a duplicate cd using drives on the same IDE channel? I have my Pioneer 10X DVD set to my secondary master and my Plextor set to my seconadary slave, so for any duping I will do, I'll just make an image first. I might switch my second hard drive and one of the ROMs around. Also be sure to upgrade to the latest firmware. It's really easy to do. There are many benefits including audio ripping at a maximum of 32X!

 

[billandopus]

Hmmnn.... I don't think your setup is the problem. Your Pioneer should be alright. I don't think that having an integrated sound card on your mobo would have any bearing on being able to burn an audio disc or not. If you were having problems with your burner working in general I would look first to your IDE drivers for your mobo not being able to handle your burner. Your situation looks like a possible software problem. Have you tried other cdr burning software?

This is what I would do:

chuck the Adaptec crap (no offense) and download Nero (whatever the latest version is) - it is much, much better as well as CloneCd. here - check more cdr software on the lefthand side. There's lots of info there. I would have more confidence using Nero over Adaptec instead. Don't forget to uninstall Adaptec first fully. Even clean out your registry as well to make sure that there are no possible conflicts later on.

In addition, you aren't using "for audio only" cdrs are you? The overpriced ones that are advertised for standalone "audio recorders" only, the ones that look like regular stereo components and not the ones that you have for your computer.

The reason is because those particular cdrs have security info on the ATIP which must be read in order for the standalone recorder to accept it for burning. It's a profit issue and has no bearing towards quality in any way. The industry basically legally overcharges you bigtime because they figure that they are losing lots of money from your assumed pirating. So, they get your dollar first to compensate their corporate fat cats.

Using these cdrs may or may not have a deleterious effect on your Plex. Make sure this is corrected first.

As for DMA, in my experience many times its your motherboard IDE drivers among other interfaces that can account for the inability to enable DMA. When I upgraded my IDE drivers for my mobo I was finally able to enable DMA, not that it made much difference anyways. I was burning perfectly fine with my Plex 8/4/32a without DMA enabled.

BTW, what configuration are you running anyways? I hope you are running the Plex as secondary master and the Pioneer as Primary Slave.

 

[75frosty23]

I want to thank each and everyone of you who provided an answer to my problem. In particular, I want to thank Bill_N_Opus for his suggestion to try another CD Burner. As it turns my hardware was setup properly and functioned as it should have. The problem was with the ADAPTEC software which was the cause of all my grief. I downloaded Nero Software and needless to say it worked flawlessly.

Once again thanks for all your suggestions and wish you all A very Happy New Year.

 

[billandopus]

Sweet. Glad to have helped out. This is what the forums is all about. Help someone and hopefully someone down the road will help me. Happy burning.