Hi Kevin Thanks very much for this information!
David On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Kevin Lloyd wrote: > Yu enable DMA for your CD drive through control panel, system, device > manager. Select the rewriter and then tab to properties. You'll find an > option to enable DMA there. This should come with a little health warning > though. You'll be warned by Windows that changing the setting could cause > the hardware not to work when your computer is restarted. > > The symptoms I was suffering were that I could burn a data CD no problem at > all but whenever I tried to copy an audio CD, the burn would fail 5-10 > minutes into the simulation step. Changing this setting cured that > immediately and I've never had the problem since. > > Kevin > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mimi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:50 PM > Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem > > > > You know, I never thought of that. How do you do that, Kevin? Maybe this > > will cut down on a lot of dead CD's. > > > > Mimi > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:09 AM > > Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem > > > > > > > Hi David. > > > > > > I suffered with this problem for a number of months. Have you tried > > working > > > your way through the Nero help tool? I found this very useful as it > will > > > run through a checklist of areas that may affect successful burning. > > > > > > Anyway, the answer for me was to set my CD-rewriter to be DMA enabled. > > This > > > meant that data could be transferred between the rewriter and hard drive > > > much more efficiently. I've never had a buffer underrun since. > > > > > > Have you ever been able to burn CD's successfully with your current set > > up? > > > > > > Kevin > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "David R. Sky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:09 AM > > > Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem > > > > > > > > > > Hi Mimi > > > > > > > > No, it was not the CD's... I've got very old equipment cuz I can't > > afford > > > > anything else right now. Apparently it was something called "underr > un" > > or > > > > "underburn" or something, which meant the buffer to the CD write > thingy > > > got > > > > empty before more info was grabbed from the hard drive. I don't know > how > > > > else to explain it at the moment, it's new to me. Anyway, my friend > > burned > > > > the CD's with his own computer and the same kind of CD discs, so they > > were > > > > okay. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, mimi wrote: > > > > > > > > > Oh, no! That means your disc devloped an error in it. If you are > > using > > > > > CDR's, which you can only use once, there is nothing you can do to > fix > > > that > > > > > once it's burned. If the problem persists throughout the pack of > > discs, > > > you > > > > > have a bad package! You might have to try a different brand of > discs. > > > > > Anyway, Nero should have asked you if you wanted to save the > > read/write > > > > > error onto a disc. Anyway, I would say no, because I don't want a > > > defective > > > > > write or play. > > > > > > > > > > I don't know what else to suggest other than try other discs to see > if > > > the > > > > > same thing would happen. But I do know that any time your burn is > > > > > unsuccessful or incomplete it's a bad disc. You cannot see the > > defect. > > > > > Another way to know is when you play it back on your computer's CD > > drive > > > if > > > > > the last track will not play at all. I've had that happen a lot > > lately. > > > > > > > > > > Mimi > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > From: "David R. Sky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:31 AM > > > > > Subject: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi listers > > > > > > > > > > > > With sighted help, I learned how to use Nero 5.5 to burn mp3 files > > to > > > a > > > > > CD. I split thirty five tracks into three folders and tried to make > > > three > > > > > CD's from these. At 4x speed, only 4 tracks were burned. Then, > running > > > my CD > > > > > burner at 1x speed, the first eleven tracks are burned (and played) > > > great, > > > > > but each time the twelvth and last track is played, it's okay for a > > few > > > > > seconds, then it gets comically crazy, like a space-age > > merry-go-round. > > > And > > > > > the CD player stays stuck on that track until I physically stop it > or > > > switch > > > > > to another CD in my player. > > > > > > > > > > > > There was an error message from nero at the end of each burn > > session, > > > and > > > > > I saved the burn log from the last session. It's 8 pages long and I > > have > > > no > > > > > idea what it means. I can forward a copy to the list if it would > help > > in > > > > > solving this problem. > > > > > > > > > > > > I'd appreciate any help, thanks in advance! > > > > > > > > > > > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
