CD-rom conflict

[joker_927]

I have a Lite-On 32x burner, and a toshiba 16x dvd-rom in this new system. I couldn't burn any disks with the lite-on and I thought it went bad on me. I erased its frimware, and updated it. I anstlaled the lastest ASPI (spelling?) layer and still couldn't burn anything. I was getting really angry.

Windows could read both drives fine, but buring just got an error.

As a wierd twist of fate, I unplugged the dvd-rom drive. I can burn anything now. Works fine. I plugged the dvd-rom back in, can't burn antyhing?


Ever heard of this?

[paul9]

but did you check your jumper settings on all your ide drives, and autodetect them in the bios? also check the dma settings, especially for the dvd as they may need dma disabled.

[Buzioid]

is your lite-on set as the master? It should be the master.

[joker_927]

really? Burner should be master?

[Bovon]

Yep..most times the burner is setup as master, and the reader is the slave.

Check to be sure both the burner and reader are not each jumpered as a slave or master..it does happen.

What size is your powersupply. A guy had a very simular problem recently in a different forum..he finally found his power supply just simply did not have enough uumph to it...burners use a lot of power when in burn mode, and will pull a psu way down, especially if the psu is marginal to begin with.

[Dj-Icer]

I heard about the power supply problem too, about the juice that is needed to run a heavy software, especially when burning. An automatic voltage regulator could do help.

p/s: I could be late saying this , but you should set the jumpers around the back. There are instructions given when you first bought it, and I'm sure there are diagrams of putting the jumpers correctly.

[joker_927]

my psu

420w

[joker_927]

Okay... I pulled both drives out, and set both jumpers to cable select. When I boot is looks like th biod betects both drives fine. Once in windows, I put the windows XP cd in both brives and both autoplay screens came up fine. Could borwse the cd fine. I put in a CD-rw and ERASED the data on it perfectly.

Right there I thought that the problem had been solved. I decided to burn a test disk just to be 100% sure. I did the same thing. Wouldn't burn with cd-mate, Nero, or windows.

I am totally lost. The IDE cable can't be bad becaise the bios AND windows detect the drives fine. The DVD-rom cant be bad because it reads disks fine, along with the cd-rw. So maybe its just the burning part of the cd-rw, but then how could it erase disks?

ARG!!!

Is windows just pissing me off? Maybe a format is instore.

[Bovon]

Originally posted by joker_927
So maybe its just the burning part of the cd-rw, but then how could it erase disks?

That is a totally different type of "burn"... Not really a burn, to erase a disk. When a CDR disk is burned, it actually burns pits in the media on the CD..in a series of dots and dashes. One being for a 0, and the other being for a 1. The data placed on a disk is in binary...0s and 1s. The technology to burn to a CDRW is completely different. If there is anyway to test that Lite-On in another machine?...is there any way to get your hands on a different burner to test your machine?..

At this point, I am leaning towards the laser in your burner not coming up to the power levels necessary to burn a disk. I have read recently of other Lite-On burners that have failed prematurely.

Is windows just pissing me off? Maybe a format is instore.

Well...its your system, but I seriously doubt a reformat and OS reload will cure this.

[RAR]

Just to verify real quick. You are running your dvd player and your cdrw drive on the same ide channel. If that's the case you need to make sure one is master and one is slave. As mentioned above, make the cdrw master and the dvd player slave. When you hook them up to the ide cable make sure the master is on the last connector on the end of that cable. The slave drive goes on the middle connector. If that doesn't work then there is something weird going on.