Hi I'm not sure I'm asking this question in the right place but here goes I've a Sony DVD RW DW-Q30A drive on my computer, it came with my computer. It seems to work when burning a cd from itunes but when I try to create a dvd from dvd decrypter or instant copy and dvd shrink I seem to get a blank dvd. It seems to burn the discs, and I've tried this with different dvd media but the same result, it doesn't play on my dvd player. I never had this problem with my old computer so I was wondering if it's a driver problem or somewhing worse? But with me not really knowing much about computers I thought I'd ask. Oh - I use the same software and media on my laptop and they seem to work fine, weird. Thanks in advance Gogz
What format are you using? Are all 3 of those brands of media you used the same format? Sounds like a compatability issue. You've tried 3 different types of media,but did you try the opposite format? Make sure that sony Q-30 plays that backup using your pc.It should,and the quality should be near to the original. What was the brand name and model# of that dvd-rw drive on your older pc? What format of media are you using? What's the firmware version of that new sony drive? Your old pc had no issues. Sounds like you have 2 different burners,thus you have 2 entirely different backups.Stand alone players can pick them apart.There's something about that new sony drive that your player doesn't like.First thing,get some quality media from the opposite format. You old burner may have performed ok with your regular media,and your stand alone had no issues with them.Now you got a totally different burner,and will have to find the right format for it and your stand alone player to perform well. That's the compatability factor of dvd backups,and is a fairly common issue.Stand alone players can pick apart: Media quality/certain MID coded media/Burn engines/and even different burners. I know,because I have 7 pc drives and see the huge compatability differences between my benqs and non benqs. Test those sony backups on other drives.Test them out on your older pc,some friends/family members drives.See how they fare with them. If you get the opposite format,test some of them using your other burner,and test them out on all your dvd drives to see how they all fare with them. If you are going to be using both pcs for dvd backups,you need to come up with the right format that can be handled by all your dvd drives.
Wow that's some reply thank you. I'll have a look, I've just been using dvd decrypter and either dvd shrink or pinacle instant copy. But I'll try some others if I can find them. Gogz
That was some post,but not even the tip of the iceberg when it comes to stand alone compatability issues, LOL. Some people never know about these compatability issues until they switch burners.Suddenly,what use to work for them,no longer does.You have to find a whole new recipe, LOL You've got a picky stand alone player,and have to find the right combination of the format of your media to all the different drives that'll be doing the burning and playing. I've got 4 pcs and know all about these compatability issues. I see all the variations between the backups from all 7 of my pc burners and some of my players. That's why I completely bypass the plus and dash format,and booktype my plus format to dvd-rom,making them have a higher rate of stand alone compatability. I'm not sure your sony drive has this capability.The other sony models like: Dru-700A/710A/and 800A did because they were rebadged lite-ons.
I'm now totally lost, as it would appear that my drive isn't configured properly. After constructing my own dvd from mpegs on DVD Architect I went to burn it onto a dvd and after burning the lead-in it came up with the following message. The command failed due to a IOCTL error. Your interface or drive may be configured incorrectly Details: ‘SFMMCX’-(17) ‘ATAPI’-(3) -‘SONY DVD RW DW-Q30A YYS2’-(1) Module sfmmcx.cpp Line 1795 Status: ff000000 Command: 2a 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 20 00 Sense: 02 04 08 Info: 00 00 00 00 Specific: 00 00 00 Extra: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
How are your drives configured? Primary harddrive-where you os is,should be primary master. After that,your other drives will follow suit. Here's 3 of my pcs: Primary Master- Main harddrive-windows xp home Primary slave- Extra 200 gb harddrive-holds my movies Secondary Master- My reader dvd drive-can be dvd-rom or another dvd-rw drive. Secondary Slave- My benq burners-they do all my burning.Those secondary drives can be flipped around-same performance for me.The jumpers have to be set correctly. How the jumper pins are set on the back of the drives,determines which connector on your IDE ribbon it goes on. IDE ribbons may have 2 connectors,or 3. A ribbon with 3 connectors- the one on the end,closer to the middle connector is your master.The middle one is either slave-or cable select-depends on the manufacturer. The end furthest from the middle connector,goes to the mobo.Basically the ends go to mobo and master.Middle connector is slave or c/s-cable select. This goes for both primary and secondary ribbons. Now you determine which ribbon your sony drive is on,and which connector: Now you make sure the jumpers is set according to how it match's up on that ribbon.Your drive should have a picture on it showing: MA-for master/SL-for slave/and CS-for cable select. If your using the middle connector,try setting the drive to slave.If issues arrise-set it to cable select. Keep your harddrive/s on your primary,and optical drives on the secondary.
Sorry I gave up last month, I decided to try again but still no luck. The drives are all configured correctly with my Harddrive being the Master & the secondary master is my sony dvd-rom & the secondary slave is the evil sony dvd-rw, the jumpers seem right too (little green things on MA & SL. But its still the same story with the drive, when I use it with DVD Decrypter and dvd shrink it seems to copy but doesn't work on any other machine (computer or dvd players), it only works on my computer it's self. The same the other day when I copied some of my music onto a data dvd for my girlfriend, I used the cyberlink file copy I got with my computer and again I can't read it on her computer or my old one only my own with the dvd drive. I've no idea on what to do apart from fork out for a new drive.
Gogser's drive is a rebadged Lite-On SHW-1635S capable of bit setting to the DVD-ROM booktype. @Gogser, You can use the Lite-On utility to bit set your DVDs to DVD-ROM. Here is the utility (link originally provided to me by Mort81)http://www.liteonit.com/DOWNLOADS/utilities/BookType135.zip Also update your firmware. Here is your latest firmware. http://www.sonyisstorage.com/bv_downloads/cpce/dvd/YYS7_WIN_B.EXE
Thanks Joshewah, I'll give the firmware a bash tonight. I'm not clued up on all this stuff but I don't understand what setting my dvd-r's to dvd-rom's will do for me, sorry if it's a stupid question.
You won't be able to bit set your DVD-Rs in a Lite-On writer, only DVD+Rs. Only some Nu Tech writers are capable of bit setting DVD-Rs to a new format. Bit setting to DVD-ROM fools (many) stand alone players into thinking the blank media is an actual DVD-ROM when in fact it is your DVD+R blank media booktyped to DVD-ROM. If you were having compatability issues before try booktyping your backups to DVD-ROM format with the Lite-On utility I sent you and see if that allows you to play your DVDs in your stand alone players. Using the utility is easy: Insert the Media (DVD+Rs in your case), then launch the Lite-On utility and set the "change booktype to" option to "DVD-ROM" then click the "change" button at the bottom, then launch your buring program and burn the disc image. Your writen media should then be DVD-ROM. Test it out and see if it works. Make sure you have your most recent firmware installed first.
