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Imjin
26th May 2002, 22:22
Hello all.

I've recently upgraded my burner box to something with a little more oomph. I was running an Athlon 800 which took quite a while to IFOEdit something, now on the new Athlon 1.4 it takes maybe 1/2 that. On my old machine I was running Winders 95 and the burner worked fine, but since I've basically built a new box and dropped it in, with a different mobo as well and a fresh install of Win2k, I get this timeout error that I had never gotten before.

I know a lot of you use Win2K and I'm hoping someone else has seen this funky error before. I think its a SCSI or ATAPI timeout error, but not sure. Basically it occurs when I try to write or simulate writing. The error is occuring when trying to burn with InstantDisc, part of the InstantCD+DVD program. When I was on Win95, it worked like a charm and let me burn UDF formats fine, but not now for some reason. The error is below.

"An error occured while writing to track 1 at position 3776. Extended Information: Device: Pioneer DVD=RW DVR-104 - HARDWARE ERROR: LOGICAL UNIT COMMUNICATION TIME-OUT" and a bunch of hex afterwards.

I thank you scholars in advance for your kindness. :)

Ragornette
26th May 2002, 23:21
try to find forceaspi 1.7
and install
That could maybe help you ...

Imjin
27th May 2002, 00:31
I just stumbled across something on the http://www.pioneeraus.com.au/multimedia/dvd/dvd-r_faq.htm site about the A03 burner and Windows 2000 that seems to have fixed the problem.

For those interested, in the Win2K Device Manager, open up the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers section and open up the properties of the Secondary IDE Channel (which I have my burner on). Click on the Advanced Settings tab which will show a section for each IDE device, 0 and 1. Since my burner is the only device on that IDE channel and is Device 0, I'm changing those settings. Originally from the Windows install, it defaulted the Transfer Mode to "DMA if available" which didn't seem to be working right. I then changed that value to "PIO Only" and rebooted.

Seems to have corrected my problem. I'm not sure why because I know I've run this same drive on a nearly identical mobo running Win2K and I didn't have to set anything to PIO... I'll just chalk it up to Satan and move on.

mikeathome
27th May 2002, 14:42
Hi,

Pioneer A03 does not work in DMA mode while DVD-R/-RW burn. It simple does not, don't ask why, this is given, reported many times and confirmed by Pioneer...

P.S: The A04 isen't any better on this !

mike