XP doesn't like me having the transfer mode of my drives on DMA, ie it freezes whenever i put a cd in it. But if i force them onto PIO it seems to work fine....

but i have been buring quite alot of coasters, the burner is new and im using nero 5.5.9 and i was wondering if it was becasue of the transfer mode and what i could do to fix it

I dunno, but getting rid of that sig might help :p

But yeah, what else are you doing while burning, are you running any other programs? Try leaving the comp completely alone while it burns.

im not a n00b BTW, i dont leave mem hogs and alike open and my pc isn't s***, its an xp2000+

dma should run alot faster then pio - also your sig is gay.

BTW i leave it alone when i burn things

does your burner even support dma?

most older ones dont

i dont care if my sig is gay, and i KNOW that dma is faster but i cant use it

its brand new and it does support DMA, and im not a n00b, duh

What are you burning and what do you mean by coasters? Do you mean the burn fails partway through so the CD won't even be recognised?

If it's a new burner you really shouldn't have that sort of problem. Pretty much all the decent new burners have burn-proof/justlink or similar which means you don't turn out coasters. Only way I've seen a coaster turned out on a burnproof machine was the guy used a 10c blank that was so crap you could literally see through the dye. Which means the CD media is a problem. Are you using decent media? Do you have a burnproof burner?

Are you burning from CD - burner on the fly or copying to the HDD first (or copying direct from HDD)? Do you have more than one device on the same IDE cable as the burner? Ideally the burner should be on a separate cable to the source (ie: HDD on one cable, burner on another). While on the topic of cables... try using an ATA66/100 cable for your burner. I dunno why but I've seen a couple burners play up when using the old style ATA33 cables but work perfectly with the new style cables.

Also, are you running the burner on a mobo with IDE raid? If so make sure you have the burner attached to a standard IDE channel not one of the raid ones. Most mobos with onboard raid don't support using the burner on the raid channels. Some disable it completely while others have weird errors.

Don't piss about posting argumentative comments with the guy - it won't help. Just ignore it. :)

im not part of QGL

then why seek help here?

cds are decent quality, its not on raid, on ata33 cable only drive on it, and it has justlink and im burning off my 40 gb 7200

ignore the trolls

becasue im a member of actgn, and there arent people there who goto the fourms that often, canberra isn't that big, and yes it fails while buring, it happens just about every second cd, and i free up the ram between and close the ram freer while burning and open and close nero evrey time etc.

BTW im burning video clips

OK, try putting it on an ATA66 cable instead then. It shouldn't make a difference but from past experience with a couple friends burners it does. Maybe there is too much crosstalk generated because there is a lot of data flow and that is corrupting the data being burned.

Justlink should stop buffer underruns (typical cause of coasters) so I'd guess it's data corruption rendering the CD unusable.

can i be the queen of shibby!?

and can we hang out in a hot spring with deformed asian chicks and a bizarre clumsy blonde haired negro?

btw, install win2k - problem solvered.

kind regards,

troll.

I had similar problems with a HD that i had seated in a caddie, turned out it was the caddie that was stuffed. The disk and caddie worked fine in PIO mode but as soon as i forced it to DMA if fell over and gave a whole pile of errors.

So the Burner could be stuffed or the cable could be buggered. If your disk is sitting in DMA chances are its the above two and not the IDE controller.

okies, i'll buy a new rounded one on the weekend, everything is on PIO and wtf is a caddy?

A caddy is a removable hard drive caddy.

oh, ok then that makes sense, i call them removeable hard drive bays cause that is what they are sold as