hello, I've been burning with bad media (Memorex, and fujifilm from Taiwan). After backing up a movie on this media, i would try another and it wouldn't work because XP shut off the DMA. SO I would then reistall the burner then burn another disc. I finally got around to buying some Maxells and found that the DMA was still being shut off through the first or second disc I burned to after reinstalling the drive. Did I wreck my drive or are maxells still not good enough?
DMA goes to PIO after around 5 errors so it still is probably your media. Taiyo Yuden and Verbatim media are considered quality media and you might want to try your burner with these and see what happens. What are the media codes on the media you have been using, Memorex, Fuji, and Maxell?
If your maxells were made in Japan (MIJ) then they are top notch hitachi. Fuji MIJ are top notch Taiyo Yuden so you might want to check those labels. Have you tried reinstalling the drivers?
Oh, I thought you were talking about a physical reinstall. And in Device manager did you uninstall the drivers of they IDE channels too?
I was thinkiing about uninstalling it but then i was afraid the harddrive would get messed up. now that i look at it, its on a seperate IDE so i can uninstall it.
I want to make sure we are both talking about the same thing, OK? Click on Start Left click once on My Computer Right click once on My Computer and select properties. Double click on Device Manager Double click on IDE ATA/ATAPI then Double Click on Secondary IDE Channel Make sure your settings are for DMA not PIO Does your system settings look like the above?
Update 1: The Maxell discs that i am working with work fine on an associates DVD burner. Update 2: I uninstalled the drivers for the IDE channel as well as the 2 cd/dvd drives attached then I physically reinstalled the drive and made it master and my cd burner the slave. started up xp, and they installed fine. I then tryed to burn a Video_TS File that had been backed up at 8x (since it doesn't seem to make a difference whether it is 4 or 8, it still fails), but it still failed approximately 14% into writing. I checked the Transfer Mode afterwards and both had been set to PIO mode. Is my drive garbage? (its an LG SuperMulti 8x, forget the model no.)
Again CRC errors will kick out the DMA, actually just slowing down the drive speed since the drive is encountering those errors. Can you try and backup a none Sony movie using your software and see if it works? If you try once again and you get the same results, then I would say yes, it’s most likely your drive. Nothing to lose right?
Thanks for all your help, it seems to be working well now that i have been using the maxells steadily (just got some sonys because i couldn't find an verbatim), burn at 4x, and not altering anything when using dvd shrink (That seemed to be the big problem for some reason, as soon as I stopped altering the compresion ratios and soundtracks it stopped failing).
