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DVD Burner is giving huge error at 1.2GB on Neros "DVD speed" test..help!

Discussion in 'DVD / Blu-ray drives' started by mikej3131, Nov 30, 2006.

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    binkie7 Moderator Staff Member

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    Not a problem there mikej3131 :)

    The 3rd connection is just the audio cable.

    Anymore there really is a diff between master and slave. The terminology sounds like it should be something else but isn't really. It just what connection on the ide cable - like 1st or 2nd you could say.
    Though it is better not to have an optical drive set as slave or master on the same ide cable as the hard drive.
    I usually have my main burner set to master and the other one I read/rip from set to slave.

    You can post back your configuration from Nero if you like and we can make a recommendation.

    Might just want to pick up the LiteOn anyhow - the price is right :)


     
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    mikej3131 Regular member

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    yeah the price is definitely right if the drives as good as people are saying.

    I will post that config for ya tonight when i get home work.

    Thanks again
     
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    binkie7 Moderator Staff Member

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    Oh they're good - I've done many, many burns on them and coasters are few and far between. I can't even remember the last time I had one w/ a LiteOn.

    Keeping the pc running clean and updating the firmware goes a long way too.
     
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    mikej3131 Regular member

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    Hey Binkie good news,


    I just went out to walmart and got the LiteOn external dvd burner, model number SHW 160P6S, installed it, then burned a dvd and tested it. My results were only 20 total PI Failures with a max of 1 and an average of .00

    So i geuss it was my drive. This was 80 bucks atwal-mart so i might use their return policy and return this and then buy the internal equivalent drive on newegg for alot cheaper. Do you think the internal one(165H6S) will be just as good as this external one?
     
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    binkie7 Moderator Staff Member

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    That is good news!
    Helluva scan too.

    Nice price on the external LiteOn.

    Yes the internal are even better than externals (don't get me wrong externals are good too but on some setup's and some software there is sometimes a conflict - not always though).

    If you decide to keep it - the latest firmware is PSOB.
     
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    mikej3131 Regular member

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    yeah right now thefirmware is at PSOA. I dont know if i should flash it to the new firmware as im getting really good results with PSOA
     
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    binkie7 Moderator Staff Member

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    I have the same drive (internal) came with the PSOA too. No problems w/ it but did update to PSOB.

    Don't know what media codes were in the latest so since you're using Verbs may not make a diff. If you start burning dual layer discs I would definitely update.
     
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    Whats the product number for the internal that you have? Do you think yours is better than the 165H6S internal liteon series
     
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    have you ever used clonedvd and gotten a wierd error message when ripping a dvd that says cannot find C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\eraser\pal\Video_TS\Video_TS.IFO:Unable to open file
     
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    The only diff is the 165H6S has LightScribe. Both are good drives.

    Your error message- how did you rip the file to your hard drive? It's showing you trying to open a file from your C drive (usually the hard drive).
    Yeah I've gotten that message when I picked the wrong drive :) So if you trying to rip from the disc w/ Clone change the path.
     
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    mikej3131 Regular member

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    ok cool that worked thanks.


    Im getting all kinds of good burns with this drive now. I have been testing these new Liteon burns with nero's dvd speed on both (old and new) drives. On my new drive the tests come out with amazing results (pi failure total at 50 with a max of 1) and then when i go to test the same burnt dvd on the old drive i get average results(Pi faiure total at 600 with a max of 2). Is this normal? why are there different results on different drives?

    Just about a half hour ago, that damn 1GB failure at 30 came up when i tested scarface :(
    This failure only shows up on the old drive though and when i tested scarface with the new drive it gave me really good results. Any ideas whats going on?
     
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    Hmmm I guessing Scarface has a playback problem in that spot?

    Try playing it back in the LiteOn and see if that spot plays ok.

    No 2 drives scan the same. Some are better than others.
    Take one of the same discs you scanned with the LiteOn and scan it again - this time at a different read speed. Probably won't get exactly the same results.
    I put more stock in how they play and being able to re rip much later.

    I have a scan of a Ritek for example done over 2 years ago (burned on a LiteOn) that has a score of 0. To look at it you would think playback would be horrible if at all and read errors out the ying yang.
    Neither one is true . Plays fine and can re rip w/o a problem.
    Does this always hold true though- not at all. Kinda why I put more faith in playback.
     
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    is this true, someone said this in another forum

    and then some1 else said this

     
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    No - I've been using LiteOn drives for over 3 years and they are one of the best imho. I'm not the only one here that uses and recommends them. I wouldn't recommend them if I did not have personal experience with them.
    I do alot of burning and they have stood the test of time.

    Different forums will have different ones they like. Nothing wrong w/ LG - BenQ is a great drive too - would have recommended that one 2 but they are hard to find if you can find them since BenQ was bought by LiteOn.
    On newegg you notice a lot of the reviews are good too for LiteOn.

    Same can go for most good drives - reviews/recommends though you never know what the users knowledge/experience is so can go both ways.
    I wouldn't try and steer you wrong :)

     
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    hmmm well i shall decide soon as i have to take this external LiteOn back to wal-mart. In the meantime im gettin some good burns out of this one. Only complaint so far is it gave me a coupl of dvd's that couldnt be read or tested on any dvd player or dvd drive so i had to throiw the dvd's away? wierd huh? I think the only times it happened is when i tried to burn a dvd that is only 40 minutes long and only takes up 2GB of data. Why is that?
     
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    Could be how & what you used to burn the disc.
    Like doing a mulitsession disc.

    So what kind of file were you burning? And how did you do it - like used Nero burning rom using the iso/udf option.

    There's always a reason :) Just need to figure it out.
     
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    well im pretty consistent with my burning. I always use Clonedvd with Anydvd to Rip and then burn the dvd, Verbatim 16 dvd-r MCC 03rg20, i always burn at either 6x or 8x. These coasters were the same thing i always do. The only thing different that i could think of was that the movies were split in half when it was ripped to the hard drive because some were too large. The first half burned fine but the second half were the coasters. The second half of the ripped movies were only like 30 minutes long and only 2GB. My other burner burned the split 2GB files fine but this LiteOn i think maybe has a problem with Movies less than 2GB????Could that be it?
     
    mikej3131, Dec 5, 2006
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    No I don't think it has a problem with split movies (not something I do - have only done 2x I think). But I have put smaller files on discs and all was okay.
    I'm not familiar w/ splitting w/ Clone - only used Shrink to do it.
    My thought is it has something to do with the split w/ Clone and how it burned it.
    2 gig seems high for 30 mins but I could be wrong (math could be way off) - some players have a problem with discs under 1 gig so that might be the problem. (?)
    Did they play back in the drive?
     
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    Now my PC keps randomly shutting off and i think its because of this nw drive because it only started doing it after i installed this new drive. This is what mivrosoft says about this error

    Hmmmmmmmm??
     
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    I thought you got an external? Either way they are plug and play - they use Window's drivers.

    What was the error code in the pop up - that one gives you the drive that's causing the problem.
     
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