Last year I built two near identical PC's with TDK Cyclone CD writers. About 9 months ago I started experiencing 'write errors' at 90% on about half my disks. I changed to better disks but to no avail. I then swopped the drives around but still no luck. The kids machine upstairs worked flawlessly. I then swopped my TDK for a Lite On Combi and still no luck.
Yesterday I realised that 9 months ago I put a Pioneer 105 on my IDE chain so I removed it. The writing went straight through with no errors. Wasted five disks doing this but all went OK. Put the Pioneer back on and back came the 90% error. I then tried the three IDE drives (1 HD and 2 Optical) in every conceivable position but still I got the errors until I removed the Pioneer.
I don't know if it really is an error as such. Lets say I write an audio CD of my group and it errors out at 90%. Its a full disk so 90% is about 72 mins into the disk. When I play that particular track its OK and nobody has returned our CD's to me.
The thing is the light bugs me because the writing stops for a few seconds and then continues. Anyone know what might be causing this and how to fix it?
Yesterday I realised that 9 months ago I put a Pioneer 105 on my IDE chain so I removed it. The writing went straight through with no errors. Wasted five disks doing this but all went OK. Put the Pioneer back on and back came the 90% error. I then tried the three IDE drives (1 HD and 2 Optical) in every conceivable position but still I got the errors until I removed the Pioneer.
I don't know if it really is an error as such. Lets say I write an audio CD of my group and it errors out at 90%. Its a full disk so 90% is about 72 mins into the disk. When I play that particular track its OK and nobody has returned our CD's to me.
The thing is the light bugs me because the writing stops for a few seconds and then continues. Anyone know what might be causing this and how to fix it?
