48A Problems

AlexMC 2003-05-05 13:18:33 UTC #1

Hi!
I just bought a new recorder for my pc, it's a Plextor 48/24/48A but I'm having lot's of problems with it
I managed to record a couple of cd's without big problems, but then the problems started, the recording time started to increase and I was needing 7 minutes to record 700MB at 48x!!! I foundd out the problem, the drive tranfer mode was set to PIO, I managed to change it back to UDMA 2.

Now I set the drive to record at 48x, it starts, takes 3 minutes and 30 seconds to burn a 700MB avi file and when it ends Nero reports a write speed of 32x ????
But this isn't the main problem, after the record ends I tested the file by copying it back to the hard drive and it gives me an error (cyclic redundacy error) meaning that the avi is corrupt
This is hapenning in 80% of the cd's I try to burn.
I'm using nero and plextools.

What can be the problem ?

My PC :
Board: Abit BX6
Intel Celerom 400Mhz processor
384Mb of memory
Main hard Drive: Seagate 80GB 7200rpm (conected trough a ATA 133 disk adapter)
Geforce 2 MX 400

jwkuipers 2003-05-05 13:31:09 UTC #2

Dude check my reply to your post at neowin:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=13&t=77084&st=0#entry833045

AlexMC 2003-05-05 13:36:59 UTC #3

You say the problem is my junk PC, it is slow sending the data to the burner, but I don't think that's the problem, that kind of problem causes buffer underrun problems and that isn't hapenning, the burn operations are finishing without problems, the problems only apera when I test the data.

miha 2003-05-05 15:47:41 UTC #4

Hi,

I don't think that the reason for crc errors is a slow PC, I have sent my drive for RMA because of this and I have a P4, 1GB RAM.
Just to be sure, I have tried a TEAC x52 burner on my pc which worked fine. I have also connected the Plextor to another pc (P4, 512MB RAM) and it produced the same errors. send the drive for RMA.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=68470

AlexMC 2003-05-05 15:58:03 UTC #5

Have you got a response from them yet ?

miha 2003-05-05 16:15:32 UTC #6

Hi,

I've got only an RMA number.

You could e-mail feedback@plextor.be and ask them about your problems.

btw, read http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?threadid=68316

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