Problems with CD Burning: "Power Calibration Error"

[Bovon]

Originally posted by shahani
So, how do I identify a good brand for serious archieving?

Check this page out.

In part:

"At the moment there is a lot of talk about which is the best CD-R Media on the market today. Usually people are talking of a certain CD brand being the best but they should tell you which is the best factory manufacturing these CD-R's.
There are at the moment around 250 different CD-R brands on the market but there are ONLY about 16 manufacturers making all these CD-R's. So when buying CD-R's it's wise to check the factory where they are from, especially with the flood of NoName CD-R's which are usually of lesser quality as they have to be cheap.

Feurio! or CDR Identifier can be used to check which manufacturer made the CD-R. At the moment only a CD-Writer is able to retrieve this information, but not all of them. The Yamaha writers are able, the HP4020i is not. Check the CD-Writer Data Base list to see which CD-Readers are able (check for Vendorcode).

Keep in mind that some CD Brands tend to change from one factory to another once in a while usually without changing the CD Layout & covers."

Then, read here for the dye and makup of disks.

The dye types is what I could not recall in my earlier post, they are: Cyanine and PhthaloCyanine, and I seem to remember, the PhthaloCyanine dye being the easier to burn.

Be sure to check this page out. You will find much info here about the 'good, the bad and the ugly' disks.

Just about anything you ever wanted to know, but were too busy to learn about CD disks and media, can be found at Media World.

Bovon, YOU ROCK!!

[Bovon]

Originally posted by shahani
Bovon, YOU ROCK!!

Tanks, I try. That $180 bucks worth of Phillips bad-burner had to be made up somewhere, and as I am one hard headed SOB, I decided to make it back up in education.

And educate a lot of people here. So, the $180 didn't go waste in my opinion.

Thanks, again.

[Ruahrc]

Wow, look at all the replies. Sorry it took so long for me to get back to you all.

The power (read: electricity) problem has occured to me- because both my DVD and my Burner are on the same molex chain. Those two drives and my LS-120 all reside on the same molex chain, and so I was thinking maybe the sudden current draw of the DVD spinning up and the CDRW trying to burn could give it problems? I'll need to test a setup with differernt molex chains. My PSU's an Enermax 350, it should be giving enough juice.

Um as far as IDE chains go, I have an A7V133, the HD's on pri master, the burner is on sec master, the ls-120's on sec slave, and the DVD is on the RAID pri master. The only doubling up is between the LS-120 and the burner, and that doesn't matter because the LS-120's not being used while the burner is going.

As far as media goes, I'm using pretty name-brand stuff here... TDK data CD-R's. Those don't seem to work, nor do my roomate's cheapo PNY CDR. One point though- I don't do a whole lot of burning, so my CD-r sits around quite a lot. Do blank CDR's decay after some time? They're not in direct sunlight but they're not in the dark either. Maybe that is an issue.

If the lens is dirty, then why does it work reliably after the simulation is performed?

I'll get into those links, maybe I can dig up something there.

BTW the unit was bought retail from CC in July 2001. Still under warranty?

Thanks a lot

Ruahrc

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Hi, its all very well ppl blurting out all this technical info, but im sure to the average user this will look like gobbaldy Gook!

I've had this trouble when i fresh installed XP, so after hours of pulling out my hair i decided to load 98 on then upgrade, and it was working fine,
I've recently formatted and was having the same prob, it worked sometimes but not others,
so i found this thread from google and tested burning with better quality discs, it did work ok with them. (which annoyed me as i just bought 100 cheap discs!! )
But after months i was able to get through to my drive manufacturer's poor website (the french page) with a flashtool.exe for my drive which corrects precisely that problem!

So b4 you start poking around with your expensive piece of equipment, i would check your cdr/rw manufacturer's web site for FIRMWARE.

hope this is some help to ppl out there!

[DutchMaster]

Hi, its all very well ppl blurting out all this technical info, but im sure to the average user this will look like gobbaldy Gook!

WE sometimes get carried away, but we are always open for questions.

Thanks for your contribution and welcome to TechInMyOpinion!!!

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