Strange problem with two DVD writers

[rahuul]

Thanks Rbrtpl,

But This is not my DVD Writer where DMA is off. It's normal CD ROM.
"CdRomPeripheral : SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L atapi Port 1 ID 0 DMA: Off

My DVD Writer is this where DMA is on.

CdRomPeripheral : TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552U atapi Port 1 ID 1 DMA: On

Am I missing something?

[rahuul]

Any more suggestions guys!!

[blutach]

Yes, read rule 14.

Regards

[Chewy]

Any more suggestions guys!!

I wouldn't try to run xp with only 96 megs of ram. Min is 128megs.
Most use 256 megs or 512megs & up.

Now the optical drive issue, as stated is the faq's, burners should be master,
not slave, especially not slaved to a non dma drive.

[rahuul]

Thanks Blutach for reminding me the rules. I respect the rules of the forum, and that mistake was because of my Anxiety.

Rbrtpl,
I have 128 megs Ram but don't know why that shows 96MB. Though very shortly I would upgrade it.

I have enable DMA on both the drives. Let me try to swap the burner.

[Chewy]

Thanks Blutach for reminding me the rules. I respect the rules of the forum, and that mistake was because of my Anxiety.

Rbrtpl,
I have 128 megs Ram but don't know why that shows 96MB. Though very shortly I would upgrade it.

I have enable DMA on both the drives. Let me try to swap the burner.

shared video(32 megs), get another 128 and watch xp fly!

I just get rid of old optical drives, unless they are standalone masters
they are of little use. Good dvd burners are so cheap now, it's all
I buy. I just found a grey Benq for 34$, w/ tax and shipping, 40$.

[rahuul]

Ya I would upgrade soon.

Regarding my problem: I swaped the CDROM and the burner. Burner being master and CDROM slave.

But the problem is still there. I ran Nero express but I could not see the files in the disc. Whereas when I used windows explorer I could see the files that I copied from my other burner.

[Chewy]

Start all over with a different disk and try again.
I use cd-r's, never rw's as I don't trust their data integrity.

[rahuul]

ok, I shall try that too. but would be able to tell you the outcome tomorrow as my other burner is at work.

[rahuul]

I tried the solution rbrtpl had suggested. I took a new cd-r and burned one small file (1 mb) with multisession enabled using nero express.

After completion, I put the same CD in the very same burner and started nero express, but could not see the file this time. But the file can be seen/copied from windows explorer.

Is it a problem of Nero 6.6?

Here is the log of my last session.

Windows XP 5.1
IA32
WinAspi: File 'Wnaspi32.dll': Ver=?.?.?.?, size=6656 bytes, created 7/10/2003 6:08:44 PM
ahead WinASPI: File 'C:\Program Files\Ahead\nero\Wnaspi32.dll': Ver=2.0.1.68, size=160016 bytes, created 28/7/2004 4:51:12 PM
Nero version: 6.6.0.1 (Nero Express)
Recorder: <TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552U>Version: US06 - HA 1 TA 0 - 6.6.0.1
Adapter driver: <atapi> HA 1
Drive buffer : 2048kB
Bus Type : via Inquiry data (1) -> ATAPI, detected: ATAPI
Connected to MMC as unknown drive with class-nr : 1
Drive is autodetected - recorder class: Std. MMC recorder
CD-ROM: <Generic DVD-ROM >Version: 1.0 - HA 2 TA 0 - 6.6.0.1
Adapter driver: <d347prt> HA 2

=== Scsi-Device-Map ===
DiskPeripheral : SAMSUNG SV4012H atapi Port 0 ID 0 DMA: On
CdRomPeripheral : TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552U atapi Port 1 ID 0 DMA: On
CdRomPeripheral : Generic DVD-ROM 1.0 d347prt Port 2 ID 0 DMA: Off
CdRomPeripheral : Generic DVD-ROM 1.0 d347prt Port 2 ID 1 DMA: Off
CdRomPeripheral : Generic DVD-ROM 1.0 d347prt Port 2 ID 2 DMA: Off

=== CDRom-Device-Map ===
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552 H: CDRom5
Generic DVD-ROM J: CDRom1
Generic DVD-ROM K: CDRom2
Generic DVD-ROM L: CDRom3
=======================

AutoRun : 1
Excluded drive IDs:
WriteBufferSize: 19922944 (0) Byte
ShowDrvBufStat : 0
BUFE : 0
Physical memory : 95MB (97776kB)
Free physical memory: 17MB (18152kB)
Memory in use : 81 %
Uncached PFiles: 0x0
Use Static Write Speed Table: 0
Use Inquiry : 1
Global Bus Type: default (0)
Check supported media : Disabled (0)

8.11.2005
CD-ROM (ISO)
11:08:24 PM #1 Text 0 File Isodoc.cpp, Line 6165
Iso document burn settings
------------------------------------------
Determine maximum speed : FALSE
Simulate : FALSE
Write : TRUE
Finalize CD : FALSE
Multisession : TRUE
Multisession type: : Start multisession
Burning mode : TAO
Mode : 1
ISO Level : 1 (Max. of 11 = 8 + 3 char)
Character set : ISO 9660
Joliet : TRUE
Allow pathdepth more than 8 directories : TRUE
Allow more than 255 characters in path : TRUE
Write ISO9660 ;1 file extensions : TRUE

11:08:24 PM #2 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 2832
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552U
Super Link activated

11:08:24 PM #3 Text 0 File Reader.cpp, Line 127
Reader running

11:08:24 PM #4 Text 0 File Writer.cpp, Line 122
Writer TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552U running

11:08:24 PM #5 ISO9660GEN -11 File geniso.cpp, Line 3286
First writeable address = 0 (0x00000000)

11:08:24 PM #6 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 3117
Turn on Track-at-once, using CD-R/RW media

11:08:25 PM #7 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 256
Last possible write address on media: 359844 ( 79:59.69)
Last address to be written: 823 ( 0:12.73)

11:08:25 PM #8 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 268
Write in overburning mode: NO (enabled: CD)

11:08:25 PM #9 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 2309
Recorder: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552U;
CDR code: 00 97 15 17; OSJ entry from: Ritek Co.
ATIP Data:
Special Info [hex] 1: C0 00 90, 2: 61 0F 11 (LI 97:15.17), 3: 4F 3B 46 (LO 79:59.70)
Additional Info [hex] 1: 00 00 80 (invalid), 2: 00 80 00 (invalid), 3: 00 80 80 (invalid)

11:08:25 PM #10 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 430
>>> Protocol of DlgWaitCD activities: <<<
=========================================

11:08:25 PM #11 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 844
Setup items (after recorder preparation)
0: TRM_DATA_MODE1 ()
2 indices, index0 (150) not provided
original disc pos #0 + 824 (824) = #824/0:10.74
relocatable, disc pos for caching/writing not required/ required, no patch infos
-> TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048, config 0, wanted index0 0 blocks, length 822 blocks [TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552U]
--------------------------------------------------------------

11:08:25 PM #12 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1047
Prepare recorder [TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552U] for write in TAO
DAO infos:
==========
MCN: ""
TOCType: 0x00; Session Closed, disc not fixated
Tracks 1 to 1:
1: TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048/0x00, FilePos 0 307200 1994752, ISRC ""
DAO layout:
===========
__Start_|____Track_|_Idx_|_RecDep_|_CtrlAdr_
-150 | lead-in | 0 | 0x00 | 0x41
-150 | 1 | 0 | 0x00 | 0x41
0 | 1 | 1 | 0x00 | 0x41
824 | lead-out | 1 | 0x00 | 0x41

11:08:25 PM #13 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1096
Removed 2 run-out blocks from end of track 1. Length: 824 -> 822.

11:08:27 PM #14 Phase 24 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1853
Caching of files started

11:08:27 PM #15 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 4003
Cache writing successful.

11:08:27 PM #16 Phase 25 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1853
Caching of files completed

11:08:27 PM #17 Phase 36 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1853
Burn process started at 32x (4,800 KB/s)

11:08:27 PM #18 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 2497
Verifying disc position of item 0 (relocatable, disc pos, no patch infos, orig at #0): write at #0

11:08:28 PM #19 Text 0 File Mmc.cpp, Line 20673
Set BUFE: Super Link -> ON

11:08:37 PM #20 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 229
all writers idle, stopping conversion

11:08:39 PM #21 Text 0 File Mmc.cpp, Line 15477
<TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552U> start Close Session

11:08:57 PM #22 Phase 37 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1853
Burn process completed successfully at 32x (4,800 KB/s)


Existing drivers:
File 'Drivers\PXHELP20.SYS': Ver=2.03.26a, size=20576 bytes, created 12/1/2005 2:03:00 AM (Prassi/Veritas driver for win 2K)
File 'Drivers\atapi.sys': Ver=5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158), size=95360 bytes, created 3/8/2004 10:59:44 PM (Adapter driver for rec)
File 'Drivers\d347prt.sys': Ver=3.47.0.0 built by: WinDDK, size=5248 bytes, created 22/8/2004 4:31:48 PM (Adapter driver for src)

Registry Keys:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\AllocateCDROMs : 0 (Security Option)

====== *** Nero-Burning Rom, History File *** ======

[rahuul]

The problem is SOLVED. Here is what I did.



In Nero StartSmart window. There are few buttons down below, I selected the "toggle between standard and more advanced tasks" (second button from left) and switched to standard mode.

In standard mode when I clicked "make data cd", it is able to show all files burned previously.

Thanks a lot for all your support. I have learnt few things from you people.

Many many thanks...

But I still wonder why nero behaves this way?