Spyder 0 Posted February 4, 2002 Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone here can help me with continued problems with my CDROMs since upgrading to XP Pro. My 8x4x32 Iomega CDRW drive is on IDE2, Master My 52x LG CDROM is on IDE2, Slave Alright..let the explanations begin! My CDRW burns at half the speed that I tell it to. I've used Nero and Roxio and I tell both to burn at 8x but the time taken is double than it should be so its only burning at 4x. My CDROM is another issue altogether. When inserting a CD, my mouse cursor doesn't flash the little CD icon beside it to say that my CDROM is accessing a disc. Most of the time, after inserting a CD, my PC freezes for about 15-20 seconds, and then it starts responding again, just in time to hear my CDROM spinning up to read the CD. These errors show in my Event Log and I'm copying everything I think is related .. Event Type: Warning Event Source: Cdrom Event ID: 51 Date: 2/2/2002 Time: 10:41:58 AM Description: An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom1 during a paging operation. Event Type: Error Event Source: atapi Event ID: 9 Date: 1/26/2002 Time: 9:51:20 PM Description: The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort1, did not respond within the timeout period. Event Type: Error Event Source: Cdrom Event ID: 7 Date: 1/15/2002 Time: 2:12:46 PM Description: The device, \Device\CdRom0, has a bad block. I've noticed also that my CDROM sometimes makes a strange...noise...while reading a disc. Its hard to describe...a high pitch wobbly sound that breaks while the laser scans the disc. Anyways, someone please help. Thank you! Share this post Link to post
DosFreak 2 Posted February 5, 2002 1. Your using an LG CDR. Bleh. 2. CD quality is a factor. I use imation and if I'm desperate Maxell's. 3. Update to latest firmware. 4. The errors that you are seeing are most likely the CDR not spiing up/down fast enough/quality of CD's/scratched CD's/dirty CDR. Share this post Link to post
DosFreak 2 Posted February 6, 2002 DOH! I saw LG and all sanity was lost. Share this post Link to post
Dragon-Lord 0 Posted February 6, 2002 Windows XP reduces your IDE speed after 6 errors, so if it was originally UDMA2, it becomes UDMA1, UDMA1 becomes PIO (ACK!!!). I was able to trace by CDRW problems (16X burner only burning at 8x) to that issue. The only way to force it back to UDMA was to go to the device manager and remove not just the offending device but the IDE chain it was connected to. Upon a reboot everything was reinstalled back to the factory default settings and now it is all good as gold. So, you might just want to make sure Windows XP hasn't downgraded you to PIO after those errors... Hope that helps, :} Share this post Link to post
