Can't read 700mb 80m blank CD on a new Burner???

cybrosh · Jul 27, 2003

Hello,

A friend has a Benq CDR/W 40X12X48, M.4012X(Internal IDE). Up until a couple of weeks ago he used Win98, Nero 5.X to burn CD's both 650 and as he claims 700mb as well. He was upgraded later on to Win2k Pro, and now he says he can only burn 650 - not only that! the recorder won't recognize 700mb blank cdr's. I saw it myself, not Easy Cd 5 P, or Nero 5.5.10 would recognize it........what do to????

serjer · Jul 27, 2003

have a try @ bao,not a big proggie ,about 3mb
when ur pal upgraded,did he upgrade from win98 or did a clean install of win2k?

cybrosh · Jul 27, 2003

Clean Install of win2k. Everything was re-installed. The burner works like a charm on 650MB. The burner isn't old...it should be able to read 700mb - odd.

BAO?

scarecrow · Jul 27, 2003

It can certainly happen- had this problem myself with SKC 90 minutes media. My Plexwriter 24/10/40 could not read them at all, while my other burner (Liteon 24102b) had absolutely no problem reading and writing them.
In short: Try another media brand.

cybrosh · Jul 27, 2003

I did.....changed from Samsung to Benq(hoping that the benq media would match the burner)

scarecrow · Jul 27, 2003

Samsung and Benq just stamp media, they don't make any...
Check if the burner opertates in DMA mode- Benq burners should operate in PIO mode.

cybrosh · Jul 30, 2003

I don't know regarding the DMA or PIO, and I really don't have the strength to open the computer and take a look, but I was able to find some old quality media - 700, 80 TDK/Sony and they worked pretty well.

The thing is...the new CD-R's are 40-48X Max, and the old CD's I've found got up to 16x. Maybe it has some effect?

MantraSonic · Aug 7, 2003

cybrosh said:
I don't know regarding the DMA or PIO, and I really don't have the strength to open the computer and take a look

Fortunately, you do not have to open up your computer to check DMA / PIO:

Windows 2000 / XP:
System Properties > Hardware Tab > Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers > double click the channel the drive is on (I am going to say the drive is the Master on the Secondary channel for my example) > click the Advanced Settings tab:

Device 0 is the Master, Device 1 is the Slave

Under Current Transfer Mode, it will either say PIO or Ultra DMA Mode 2 (DMA/33)

If you do not know where the drive is on the chain, it should say when you start up the computer in the POST.

Good luck