Buffer level

[blutach]

They're the blank discs I use and I've not had a problem.

Sounds very hardware related.

Regards

[Chewy]

I noticed that, there are a lot of people still talking about those blanks.
Probably those nvbus drivers, but since they say they used 6 other kinds
of blanks. Maybe that burner is bad.

[jm1647]

my last burn log.


=== Scsi-Device-Map ===
DiskPeripheral : Maxtor 6Y160P0 nvatabus Port 0 ID 0 DMA: Off
DiskPeripheral : Maxtor 2R015H1 nvatabus Port 0 ID 1 DMA: Off
CdRomPeripheral : 16X12 DVD DUAL nvatabus Port 0 ID 0 DMA: Off
CdRomPeripheral : DVDRW IDE1008 nvatabus Port 0 ID 1 DMA: Off

By your posted log your in PIO mode on both the primary and secondary, if DMA still shows that it is off, get them back in DMA mode and your buffer problems will go away.

[civilforce]

ok here are two more disks one is a memorex and the second was a tdk

Media Information
Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Media code/Manufacturer ID RITEK R03
Media Product Revision Number 02h
Format Type UDF 1.02
Volume Name THE_SECRETARY
Application id
Implementation id AHEAD Nero
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 12/ 3/2004 0:11:17
Format Capacity 4.22GB(4.54GB)
Book Type DVD-ROM
Media Type DVD+R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 8.0x 11080KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 21CAFFh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 08 02 00 00 01 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 24 CA FF .............$..
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 52 49 54 45 4B 00 00 00 52 .......RITEK...R
00000020 30 33 02 38 23 54 37 09 00 3C 65 00 A0 5F 14 14 03.8#T7..<e.._..
00000030 0A 0A 0A 0A 01 19 1B 0B 0B 0E 0F 01 00 00 00 00 ................


Media Information
Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Media code/Manufacturer ID TTG02
Format Type UDF 1.02
Volume Name Miss Congeniali
Application id
Implementation id AHEAD Nero
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 6/22/2005 22:00:41
Format Capacity 4.36GB(4.68GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Manufacturer Rated Speed Unknown
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.0x 2770KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 09
2x Speed OPC power 0A
2x Write Strategy field 1 15 98 89 90
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 05
4x Speed OPC power 15
4x Write Strategy field 1 0C 0E 09 04
4x Write Strategy field 2 96 05 0B 0B
4x Write Strategy field 3 80 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 09
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 18
4x Write Strategy field 4 14 97 88 85
4x Write Strategy field 5 B8 9A B8 83 00 30
4x Write Strategy field 6 00 00 D0 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 22E21Fh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 00 6C 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 85 0D 0C .l...@....R.....
00000010 87 89 90 00 03 54 54 47 30 32 00 00 04 00 00 00 .....TTG02......
00000020 00 00 00 00 05 BA A3 22 32 20 02 00 06 09 0A 15 ......."2 ......

[Chewy]

I know this is different from yours, my nvidia box is waiting for me to put
a new power supply in, but for example I want you to try this.
We are going to try and roll back the nvidia ide drivers to the default
windows xp ones?
Somewhere nvidia screwed these up.

go into device manager and click on the ide/atapi controllers
go to driver tab try rolling back the driver to MS one like I have

[civilforce]

to jm1647 I saw that too but in my windows device manager it says ultra dma 4 for the burner. SO I am not sure why nero is saying it is off. that may be the problem but I don't know how to fix that.

To chewy I did roll my drive back to use the windows drive and the problem got worse, the buffer would start to flux at 10% so I reinstalled the nvidia driver and then updated it to a new version and now it starts to flux at 50% so I gained 3% more over teh older driver. also I know it is not the burner being bad (or less likely) I have had this problem with all my burners.

[Chewy]

The roll back did not work, the goddess of firmware has stated, sata
nvidia, ide windows default. I am going for clean install of XP and
no "all in one" nvidia package, or at least this time I will follow my own advise
and go custom(pick and choose what's installed).
After 2 months of researching this problem I haven't found out squat.
Looking for a few NFORCE chipset programmers tho. AHHHHHARRRRH!!!!!!

[civilforce]

ok some new things I have tried. Update the bios from version f7 to f11, no help on the burning same results. Updated nero to the latest version no help. Nero's log keeps saying dma off but windows says it is on I am lost there. Again thanks for the suggestions keep them coming.

[Chewy]

post a screenshot like this please

[civilforce]

I attached my screen shot. I did do a burn with dvd decrypter and it worked alot better, for the first 50% of the burn the device buffer said either 97% or 100% after about 50% of the burn done it would say 94%, 97% and 100% never any lower. So maybe nero does not like nvidia ide.

[Chewy]

your version, 2.6, nothing related to burners likes
there are default Microsoft ide drivers, use them.
Hit ROLLBACK DRIVER on that screen, reboot, verify there are
ms ones in it's place and try a burn.

seen this a lot, always nvidia lately tho

[civilforce]

I did that befor and got worse results. The buffer started fluxing faster and more.

[Chewy]

are you sure you weren't rolling back to another nvidia driver?

[civilforce]

I am sure. I had an older nvidia driver so I rolled back to microsoft and then when it did not work. I downloaded the latest version of nvidia. And the latest version worked better, not by much but it was better then the other 2.

[Chewy]

well it's getting down to the burner or a power issue,
can you monitor the voltage?