Do you have one? If so, what model? Are you happy with it? How often does it burn coasters? What burning software do you use? What media do you use?
I'm curious, because I got that latest Sony DVD burner.. (DRU-530A), using Nero 6, and using Memorex CDs... and that set up kicked ass for about three days..
then one day, my DVD burner performance started sucking.. like it was half as slow as my two-year-old crappy Creative CDRW drive. What gives? The diagnostic check passes all tests for my new Sony DVD burner, but can't manage to burn a simple 700MB CD without corrupting a small number of files (ALWAYS "Verify" your CD/DVD-ROM burns, folks! Important lesson!). I'm thinking of returning it on Monday if I can't get any progress this weekend.
But I wanted to hear your stories and see if they match mine, or conflict them.
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)
(this is an internal burner, by the way)
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)
(and this shit happens even after I completely defragged my hard drive)
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)
Hey db, I don't have a dvd burner, nor am I running xp at home, but I can offer to go get a beer or coffee with you sometime this weekend if you reach the point where you just can't take it any more.
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)
I might take you up on the offer... and the great thing is, I'll have plenty of aluminum coasters to donate for our beer and coffee drinkin' pleasure!
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)
Aw, so some good came out of this!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 February 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)
Well to me it sounds broke. If you haven't changed anything else in your setup, it seems fairly likely. I have a sony one too. The first one I got was extremely flaky and I lost about 8 out of the ten discs I tried while I was trying out different things trying to get the thing to work.
But my new one has been 100% cool at 4X which is its max (its a DWU 14A). That should be your experience too, in XP or 2000. The occasional coaster fair doos, but if you find yourself worrying on every burn then its bollox and you should take it back.
The only thing I would check would be that you are in DMA mode for the IDE channel you are using and not PIO. I use 2000 so I'm not sure if it works the same in XP but I go to:
my computer right click-> properties-> hardware-> devicemanager-> IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers-> the relevant channel-> right click go to properties-> advanced settings and check the transfer mode. phew!
I have found that this has not been enabled by default before (again, in 2000 at least) and it greatly reduces the performance of your burner. e.g. you have a 40X cd burner. In PIO mode it'll take 7mins to burn.
In DMA mode it'll take 3. This is even more noticable with a DVD burner. I went from 40mins to 15 odd mins for a DVD.
Not sure to be honest if it will help in your case cos you are getting corruption, but its worth a look and in general a good thing.
hope it works out, very frustrating when a burner is wasting discs
― Shady Nook, Saturday, 7 February 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)