cdroms and burners

[railugh]

I have recently encountered a few systems that hold both a standard CDROM and a CDRW (most linked on the same IDE cable) that have had the standard CDROM fail after a burn on-the-fly. Fail meaning the cdrom no longer recognizes dics at all even though the burn process completed. I have seen a variance of Master/slave combinations with these troubled units. Though I advise (and myself choose)to burn from an image rather than O T F .. I am curious if a burner could possibly alter the tranfer rates of another player to a permanent effect.
The failed cdroms spin but are unable to read

Has anyone encountered this condition? have any insight?

Thanks in advance for any responce

 

[webmaster999]

Never heard of this, but...

Suggestion...
Take out/disconnect the cable of the other CDROM when burning OTF...

Matt A+, MCP, MCP+I, MCSE Windows NT 4.0, MCSE Windows 2000 Early Achiever with Security Emphasis

 

[Shohan]

To my knowledge when burning "on the fly" it takes data from the source cd and directly transfers it to the cd-r drive. The information never hits the hardrive. Now having both CD drives on the same IDE cable could cause some data collision. All my experience with "on the fly" have been with the two drives on seperate cabling. This really doesn't help your problem with the cd-rom not recognizing cds but it may be the cause of the problem, but its just my assumption.

Shohn

 

[Scotsdude]

you say you've encountered this with a variance of combinations. The standard CD-ROM drive, where they all from a certain manufacturer?

 

[andyT69]

I encountered the same on my brand-new Plextor PX2410 with Nero 5.5 in Win2K.

It's the only CD drive in my PC set as master on the secondary IDE drive (so I didn't burn 'on the fly', of course).

Didn't give it too much consideration, took one more re-boot to solve ;-)

Comments would be appreciated, however...

take care,
Andy

 

[railugh]

the last instance I encountered was with a Creative 52x cd and I believe the burner was a Wearnes CDRW 8x4x32... the burner was set as slave with the creative as master both on the same IDE cable ... adaptec sofware was utilized in the burn process

as HiLiKus stated , on the fly transfers data through the cd buffers directly ... thus the drives synchronize there timing ... with the burner at a slower speed than the reading drive, i am left to question this as a possible cause of failure

the creative was covered by warranty and replaced .. the RMA inquiry revealed transfer rates had been altered on the drive thus disabling it functional properties,

if it was a single occasion that i had seen this i would have chalked it up to a crash

with burn proof drives coming released, buffer under run errors are said to be resolved, i still wonder if under run errors could have caused the malfunction of the drive

i have two other drives that are on the shelf that were not covered by warranty and died in similar circumstances... they power up, spin well. but that is as far as they go .. it may appear that on the shelf is where they will stay