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Poll: plextor 12/10/32A question w/ poll

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How many people use that dip switch on the very most left of the back of the Plextor 12/10/32A? I heard it enabled UDMA, but I'm not quite sure. I've got mine enabled, but I also got some problems. I don't remember if I had the same problems before.

Basically when I try to burn a cd, I'll watch it write the lead-in section and then I notice it stop writing. Nothing happens from there. I have to reboot my computer to be able to open the plextor. I'm thinking about removing that dip switch to see if that's the cause.

My setup:
300a @ 464
bh6
ibm 75gxp source drive
win2k

Any help would be appreciated.
 
On my PII-300, the drive didn't need to have the jumper (it's not a dip switch), to run in DMA mode.
When I installed it in my Athlon/A7V system, the jumper was needed.


Go figure ...
 
duh, i didn't think dip switch sounded right...

i'll have to try it without it to see if i have the same problems.

oh, i forgot to mention this happens in Nero 5.0.1.8 and I revision 1.07 for the Plextor
 
I didnt even know there was a jumper in the back of my 12/10/32 for DMA/UDMA- On my KT7-RAID board ,VIA's DMA tool says mine is at DMA while my dvd & Kenwood drives are at UDMA. Ive burned about a 100+ cdrs and never had a problem while at DMA setting
 
I run Win2K and have DMA enabled on the drive and it works fine. I did nothing to the jumpers in the back.
 
I have the Plextor and the TDK and both required the jumper to enable DMA on a Pro2a with a 1 Ghz Tbird. I haven't had any trouble burning anything. If your using Easy CD Creator that might be the problem.
 
No, the problem only occurs with Nero. I've recently removed the jumper and I've burned three audio cds since. Hopefully things will work out now.
 
I didn't change anything except the jumper to master setting on the drive and its been running at full speed anyway... I don't think there's a point to doing the UDMA setting. I've used both Nero and EasyCD and it's fine...

Is there any difference between InCD or DirectCD for CD-RW 10x disc usage in speed? Are the programs different in memory footprint??
 
I'm not sure. I haven't used either one of those. They are packet writing software, right? If I remember correctly, InCD doesn't work in Win2k (which I use) unless I'm thinking of some other program.
 
This is FYI only. Direct CD completed about %95 of the formatting of my first CD-RW then it choked and replyed with something like "unrecoverable read error, media possibly bad" and then quit. I said FU and installed InCD and it formatted the same disc and I am using it now to back up my downloaded files. This ccoud have just been a hiccup on DirectCD's part, but I don't like Acraptec software anyway so I didn't take too much convincing.
 
I have the jumper installed on mine. It now shows up as ATA33 on bootup. I will have to pull the jumper and run CDSpeed on it, then re-install the jumper, and run it again to compare, and see if there is any difference.

EDIT: I have had no problems burning with the jumper installed.
 
I have mine hooked up to the ATA 66 controller of by BE6. It is recognized as UDMA2 on the blue HighPoint bois screen, but DMA isn't even an option in the Device Manager. The DMA box isn't there! I'm a little confused by this.

I had the jumper on for a few days, but took it off because I didn't think I needed it
 
hmm, maybe you are one of the ones that require the jumper to be set. who knows. i wish plextor would clarify this for us.
 
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