Hi there (wow haven't posted on here for ages!)
I have just replaced my Athlon XP setup (board, chip, mem), and purchased some new SATA drives, and my system is now the following
P4 3.0Ghz 800FSB
Abit IC7-MAX3
1024MB PC3200 RAM
2x120GB Maxtor SATA drives in RAID0 ----------------------------- > On-chip SATA controller
160GB Maxtor IDE drive & 60GB Maxtor IDE --------------------- > PCI Promise Ultra100 controller
Liteon DVD-ROM, DVD+-RW & CD-RW ------------------------------ > Onboard IDE controller
The other SATA controller is Disabled in the BIOS.
The problem is, when I burn an ISO image from any of the hard drives to a DVD-R, the disc effectively comes out "blank" or garbage data. I have tried Nero 5.5, 6, Stomp, etc, all the same results. These are DVD-Rs I know work fine, and ISO images I know burn and play fine, as I had done so on the Athlon XP setup. Another thing to note, when I do a read speed test just before burn, the speed seems to settle down to just 3X, **for any of the drives**. However, if I do an independent test under the Cache option of Nero, its more like 150X for the RAID drives and 90X for the IDEs. Sandra reports a very healthy score for the RAID drives in its test also.
I am running Windows XP + SP1, and have got all the latest BIOSes. drivers etc for the various controller chips. I have tried removing the Promise card and just using the 2 RAID'd drives, makes no difference.
Where am I going wrong?
Thanks!
I have just replaced my Athlon XP setup (board, chip, mem), and purchased some new SATA drives, and my system is now the following
P4 3.0Ghz 800FSB
Abit IC7-MAX3
1024MB PC3200 RAM
2x120GB Maxtor SATA drives in RAID0 ----------------------------- > On-chip SATA controller
160GB Maxtor IDE drive & 60GB Maxtor IDE --------------------- > PCI Promise Ultra100 controller
Liteon DVD-ROM, DVD+-RW & CD-RW ------------------------------ > Onboard IDE controller
The other SATA controller is Disabled in the BIOS.
The problem is, when I burn an ISO image from any of the hard drives to a DVD-R, the disc effectively comes out "blank" or garbage data. I have tried Nero 5.5, 6, Stomp, etc, all the same results. These are DVD-Rs I know work fine, and ISO images I know burn and play fine, as I had done so on the Athlon XP setup. Another thing to note, when I do a read speed test just before burn, the speed seems to settle down to just 3X, **for any of the drives**. However, if I do an independent test under the Cache option of Nero, its more like 150X for the RAID drives and 90X for the IDEs. Sandra reports a very healthy score for the RAID drives in its test also.
I am running Windows XP + SP1, and have got all the latest BIOSes. drivers etc for the various controller chips. I have tried removing the Promise card and just using the 2 RAID'd drives, makes no difference.
Where am I going wrong?
Thanks!