Plextor PX-708A, Nero verification fails

[Gillespie]

Hi, this is my first post here.

I have recently started experiencing problems with my PX-708A and Nero Burning ROM 6.3.0.0.

When trying to verify or access a DVD, it isn't able to read the files in the last dir.
It enters the dir fine (using Total Commander 6.0), but when I try to view the files in it using F3, it pops up a dialog box with the caption 'Disk read error!', with an big yellow exclamation mark, and the name of the file it can't read just to the right.

I know that there is no problem with the media, because I've had it work fine before, but then I was using the burner in different machines (they aren't mine, so I couldn't just leave it there).

This one:
AMD Athlon 2700+
512 MB RAM
MSI K7N2GM-IL

The 2nd one:
AMD Athlon 2800+ (was also tested and working with the above CPU)
512 MB RAM (has it's own, and was also tested and working with the above RAM)
MSI K7N2 Delta

The 3rd one:
AMD Athlon 1700+
512 MB RAM (different from either of the above)
ECS SiS mainboard (not sure what type, but I think it's called K75SA or something like that)

All machines run XP 2600 with SP1a, and the latest drivers, except for the 3rd one, which I'm not sure what drivers it had on it.

I have the Plextor upgraded to firmware 1.04, and it's functioning at Ultra DMA Mode 2, with a perfectly normal read speed, according to PlexiTools (between 3-8X, it's been at 4 and something, and then I just took it off).

I've tried 2 types of media (Datawrite 4x (says PRINCO with 4x certified speed in PlexiTools) and White Label ?x). I've burnt at 1x, 2x, 4x on both types, disabling autostart, Windows' built-in CD write support (via services.msc and X-setup), write caching on the HDD's.
Both these types worked perfectly on the other machines.



In Nero, this is the error I get, and the same thing has happened several times, with the only thing changing being the burning speed:

I've tried burning in ISO mode and UDF mode.

Here's another image, with most of the info from PlexiTools (~430kb).

Have anyone of you had the same problem, or do you know what it could be?
Is there another app I can use, that will burn several data folders (all containing 1 .bin, 1 .nfo and 1 .cue), directly to DVD?

Btw, I've tried this with other content, that didn't have the Ü or anything weird like that on it.

Thanks for any and all replies.

 

[Duracell]

Hi Gillespie, Welcome to our forum!

i'm not clear about in which machine your burner is now running;

however, try to set up your burner as master (no slave present) at the 2. IDE channel connected via 40-wire cable, don't connect a slave to it; install the latest IDE/chipset drivers (available at your motherboard fabricators homepage); configure the drive as UDMA2;
if it does not help uninstall the specific IDE drivers and use the generic M$ IDE busmaster driver instead; configure the drive as UDMA2 too;
both mentioned chipsets nForce2 and SiS are often problematic in burning stuff;

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[Gillespie]

Thanks.

It's running in the first one described, and it is master on the 2nd IDE channel with no slave present, but the cable is an 80 pin cable (the mainboard complained when I had 40 pin cables connected to it). The latest drivers are installed, and the driver is UDMA2.
Is an 80 pin cable 'wrong' to use?
I have two HDD's connected to IDE1 (Seagate Barracuda IV and V), and they're both in UDMA5.
The IDE controller driver I have installed now is NVIDIA NForce MCP2 version 6.1.2600.0 (dated 13.05.2002), which is digitally signed.

I tried burning with burnatonce just now, and that seems to have worked for the DVD above, and I was so happy thinking I had fixed it, but then I tried making another one, and even though burnatonce said it was successfull, I had problems accessing 2 of the files in the last directory on the DVD.
I also had put 2 large files on the root of the DVD (~600MB each), and they seem to be fine.
There were 7 in total, and the other ones seemed fine, after scrolling through them a bit with F3 in Total Commander, to see if a Disk read error would occur.

Is the last thing to be written to a DVD the last file in the last folder?

I'm sure I'm not exceeding the DVD limit or overburning, because what I've written has been ~4.3GB, and the compilation above was written fine with burnatonce (i.e. I could access the last files in the last dir with no Disk read error).

Confusing!

 

[Duracell]

Is an 80 pin cable 'wrong' to use?

it may cause problems, 80-wire cable (not pins, count them yourself ) are specified for IDE devices not for ATA devices;

The IDE controller driver I have installed now is NVIDIA NForce MCP2 version 6.1.2600.0 (dated 13.05.2002), which is digitally signed.

well known trouble maker; M$ did withdraw their certificate and nVIDIA removed this IDE driver in the following chipset driver packages;
anyhow, now they are back with IDE 2.0 NVIDIA driver 3.66 (WHQL)

like i told above, last option is M$' generic IDE busmaster driver;

Is the last thing to be written to a DVD the last file in the last folder?

sorry, don't know about file sorting/arrangement while DVD burning;