411s, can't get it right

CD, DVD and (Ultra HD) Blu-ray Writers LiteOn / PLDS / Sony Writer
#1

Hello

I bought my DVD recorder on October 2003. I never had it full working, which means that the only thing I took from this recorder was DVD-r expensive media (verbatim) that only works on table top dvd players, not on my own 411s… I could never conect the 411s to the secondary IDE ATA 100 (I had 3 HDD) so I had it conected to the primary IDE (for 40 conectors cable). I thought that the problems I had were due to not having the 411s conected with 80 conect cable on the ide ATA100. Yesterday I got rid of one of the HDD and conected the 411s to the secondary ide ata100. Now, every time I start a burn in nero my system hangs, even ctrl+alt+del can’t recover.

My system:

Athlon thunderbird 850mhz
Asus A7V via Apollo kt133
4in1 drivers
2 40gb hdd
hp cd-writer+
fs0h firmware
burning with nero 6.0.0.19

Note: when my system boots it shows udma 5 for both HDD and UDMA 2 for the 411s (master) and the HP(slave) which are both conected to the secondary ide ata 100

Any help wuld be appreciated

Thank you in advance

#2

To help someone with similar problems:

First thing I did was updating firmware to fsoj patched with omnipatcher. Then I tried to burn dvd+r instead of dvd-r. It worked great even with cheap media (Medianca 2.4X) , all my laptop/desktop players could read it and, which is most important to me, my table top player. Then I found out that the nero crashing with dvd-r media was due to having the 411s conected to the primary ide ata 100. I put it back on the normal ide conector.
The only problem is that the dvd’s I burn with DVD-r media do not play in my laptop/desktop players. In the table top players they do play at the beginning, after 10 minutes or so they stop.
Although I’m happy for having solved the problem with DVD+R media, it still annoys me the fact that I gave 150€ (about 175 USD) for a recorder that is supposed to burn minus media too… and it doesn’t.

#3

There is a problem with burners and your chipset, here is a thread that you might want to read http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=84865&highlight=kt133
I have an old PC with the same chipset but I have SCSI burners in that and all works fine, most people seem to fix the problem by purchasing a PCI IDE controller card.

#4

Thanks for the concern. I checked the thread and found it interesting, but since I don’t experience those other problems (problems with video, file corruption, etc) and one of the guys said that he couldn’t solve the problem with DVD-R and Nero (stating that a separate ATA controller would be the way to go) I’m not going to take the chance. I’m producing high quality-wide compatibility-even with cheap media DVD+R which is very good for me now. Moreover, I’m starting a project to which I’m going to need to burn DVD’s and I better stick to this working solution. Nevertheless I will buy a new computer soon, I’ll try Pentium this time, and then I will try the 411 with it. Maybe then I will take my hat off to Liteon.

Tanks again