Burner Problems

[ArchZ]

OK: So this has now officially become an obsession.
I've installed win2k on my system after completely reformatting the hard drive. Since I've done this, I continually get buffer under run errors when burning at 8x.
I didn't have this problem in win98 so I'm wondering what I've done wrong. Here's what I've done thus far:
updated promise drivers to win2k (ata100 hd)
bought a friggin 52x creative cd rom
switched from adaptec to nero
driven my household crazy.
enabled and unenabled ultra dma (one question here... when it is selected what value should I use, 1-5?)
It does the same thing each time... Has a underrun 5% through the burn process.
It doesn't do this if I save to the HD first, but I've never
had to do this before and I don't want to start now.
I don't think that it's the rest of the hardware, but I'm open to suggestions... tbird 900...133fsb
any ideas?

 

[ejsmith2]

You've changed the DMA mode in the bios (go with the highest mode your HD and reader will allow; probably 5 and 2).

Now you have to enable DMA in Win2k. Heh.
Go to the device manager, and open up the Ata/Atapti controllers, and check the settings on the primary and secondary. Enable DMA for both. You hard disk defaults to DMA on, but your cdroms all default to PIO.

I can't remember. It's been so long since I've microwaved my Ezcd disk. I think you have some manual chucking-of-files to do in order to get nero to fully work after Ezcd. Ezcd is like radiation; you have to use hot water and scrub a lot.

And doing a direct copy of a protected cd will *always* crank a buffer underrun unless you drop down to 1x or 2x. I can't remember the last time I did a direct copy. Even when I backup my music cd's, I always cut-n-paste so I can fill up 80min instead of the 64min most cd's give you.

 

[ArchZ]

OK... That worked. Once I enabled dma under
the ata/atapti devices I was able to burn at 8x
on the fly. Thanks for the input.