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From: Roy on 29 Jul 2010 03:58 dvd drive xp home When disk is inserted the drive page opens up and shows the disk content. Also, when I burn a 2 1/2 minute data disk it now takes 11 minutes. Just started doing both within the last 48 hrs. I have not d/l anything within the past week. Researching this for many hours to no avail. Maybe,buffering? Any sane or insane answer will be greatly appreciated. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name System Manufacturer INTELR System Model AWRDACPI System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2811 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 9/27/2006 SMBIOS Version 2.2 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" User Name Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB Available Physical Memory 1.41 GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 4.82 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Drive E: Description CD-ROM Drive Media Loaded No Media Type CD-ROM Name _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives) Status OK Transfer Rate Not Available SCSI Target ID 0 PNP Device ID IDE\CDROM_NEC_DVD_RW_ND-3500AG___________________2.98____\5&3B90A244&0&0.0.0 Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2108), 61.50 KB (62,976 bytes), 8/4/2004 1:59 AM) Nero 7 Ultra -- Roy
From: Roy on 29 Jul 2010 04:41 Sorry, forgot to add that the activity light pauses and blinks when burning. -- Roy "Roy" wrote: > dvd drive xp home > When disk is inserted the drive page opens up and shows the disk content. > Also, when I burn a 2 1/2 minute data disk it now takes 11 minutes. Just > started doing both within the last 48 hrs. I have not d/l anything within the > past week. Researching this for many hours to no avail. Maybe,buffering? Any > sane or insane answer will be greatly appreciated. > > OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition > Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 > OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation > System Name > System Manufacturer INTELR > System Model AWRDACPI > System Type X86-based PC > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2811 Mhz > BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 9/27/2006 > SMBIOS Version 2.2 > Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS > System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 > Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 > Locale United States > Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" > User Name > Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time > Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB > Available Physical Memory 1.41 GB > Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB > Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB > Page File Space 4.82 GB > Page File C:\pagefile.sys > Drive E: > Description CD-ROM Drive > Media Loaded No > Media Type CD-ROM > Name _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG > Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives) > Status OK > Transfer Rate Not Available > SCSI Target ID 0 > PNP Device ID > IDE\CDROM_NEC_DVD_RW_ND-3500AG___________________2.98____\5&3B90A244&0&0.0.0 > Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.5512 > (xpsp.080413-2108), 61.50 KB (62,976 bytes), 8/4/2004 1:59 AM) > Nero 7 Ultra > -- > Roy
From: Paul on 29 Jul 2010 05:50 Roy wrote: > dvd drive xp home > When disk is inserted the drive page opens up and shows the disk content. > Also, when I burn a 2 1/2 minute data disk it now takes 11 minutes. Just > started doing both within the last 48 hrs. I have not d/l anything within the > past week. Researching this for many hours to no avail. Maybe,buffering? Any > sane or insane answer will be greatly appreciated. > > OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition > Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 > OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation > System Name > System Manufacturer INTELR > System Model AWRDACPI > System Type X86-based PC > Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2811 Mhz > BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 9/27/2006 > SMBIOS Version 2.2 > Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS > System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 > Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 > Locale United States > Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" > User Name > Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time > Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB > Available Physical Memory 1.41 GB > Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB > Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB > Page File Space 4.82 GB > Page File C:\pagefile.sys > Drive E: > Description CD-ROM Drive > Media Loaded No > Media Type CD-ROM > Name _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG > Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives) > Status OK > Transfer Rate Not Available > SCSI Target ID 0 > PNP Device ID > IDE\CDROM_NEC_DVD_RW_ND-3500AG___________________2.98____\5&3B90A244&0&0.0.0 > Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.5512 > (xpsp.080413-2108), 61.50 KB (62,976 bytes), 8/4/2004 1:59 AM) > Nero 7 Ultra When that happened to me, it was because my USB port driver for USB2 had gone missing, and the interface to my external burner was running at USB 1.1 rates (about 1 megabyte per second). Since that isn't sufficient to keep the buffer full during a burn, the LED on the drive would go on for a second, then off for several seconds, repeatedly. No data was lost, because the drive had some form of "burnproof" that can withstand data underruns. Using MSINFO32 here, I can see that your drive "IDE\CDROM" is an internal drive. It could be, that the interface is now in PIO mode. See the "Workaround" section, half way down this page, for what to do. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817472 Paul
From: Paul on 29 Jul 2010 06:14 Paul wrote: > Roy wrote: >> dvd drive xp home When disk is inserted the drive page opens up and >> shows the disk content. Also, when I burn a 2 1/2 minute data disk it >> now takes 11 minutes. Just started doing both within the last 48 hrs. >> I have not d/l anything within the past week. Researching this for >> many hours to no avail. Maybe,buffering? Any sane or insane answer >> will be greatly appreciated. >> OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition >> Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 >> OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation >> System Name System Manufacturer INTELR >> System Model AWRDACPI >> System Type X86-based PC >> Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2811 Mhz >> BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 9/27/2006 >> SMBIOS Version 2.2 >> Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS >> System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 >> Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 >> Locale United States >> Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" >> User Name Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time >> Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB >> Available Physical Memory 1.41 GB >> Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB >> Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB >> Page File Space 4.82 GB >> Page File C:\pagefile.sys >> Drive E: >> Description CD-ROM Drive >> Media Loaded No >> Media Type CD-ROM >> Name _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG >> Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives) >> Status OK >> Transfer Rate Not Available >> SCSI Target ID 0 >> PNP Device ID >> IDE\CDROM_NEC_DVD_RW_ND-3500AG___________________2.98____\5&3B90A244&0&0.0.0 >> >> Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.5512 >> (xpsp.080413-2108), 61.50 KB (62,976 bytes), 8/4/2004 1:59 AM) >> Nero 7 Ultra > > When that happened to me, it was because my USB port driver for USB2 > had gone missing, and the interface to my external burner was running > at USB 1.1 rates (about 1 megabyte per second). Since that isn't sufficient > to keep the buffer full during a burn, the LED on the drive would go on > for a second, then off for several seconds, repeatedly. No data was lost, > because the drive had some form of "burnproof" that can withstand data > underruns. > > Using MSINFO32 here, I can see that your drive "IDE\CDROM" is an > internal drive. It could be, that the interface is now in PIO mode. > > See the "Workaround" section, half way down this page, for what to do. > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817472 > > > Paul Something else I just tested. I put a CD into the tray of my "IDE\CDROM", and ran MSINFO32 again. This time, it populated the Transfer Rate field. So you will get a value for that field, if burned media is present. "Transfer Rate 3942.86 kbytes/sec" Using 150KB/sec as the "1x rate", that is about 26x rate. If I use Nero CD/DVD Speed tool in the Tools folder of Nero (that tool has had more than one name over its lifetime), and I had it measure the transfer rate. The CD I used to test, has only 200MB on it. The 26x corresponds to the fastest part of the recording, at the end of the recorded area. So the MSINFO32 is giving a good estimate of the peak transfer rate possible on a read. It doesn't tell us whether the interface is in PIO mode. But I believe one of the Nero tools in that same folder, can tell you the mode it is in. My media is 48X, for what that is worth. It might have achieved a higher value, for a CD that was burned right to the end. OK, using Nero InfoTool 4, "Configuration" tab, "DVD/CD-ROM drives", there is a "Current DMA mode: UDMA2 field" shown for my old CR52 IDE burner. And UDMA2 is fast enough (33MB/sec) for any media I might use. It is as effective, as if I had the drive connected by USB2 (which is ~30MB/sec). So give the InfoTool a try, and see what mode the IDE cable is in. Paul
From: Jim on 29 Jul 2010 09:48
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:58:04 -0700, Roy <Roy(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > dvd drive xp home >When disk is inserted the drive page opens up and shows the disk content. >Also, when I burn a 2 1/2 minute data disk it now takes 11 minutes. Just >started doing both within the last 48 hrs. I have not d/l anything within the >past week. Researching this for many hours to no avail. Maybe,buffering? Any >sane or insane answer will be greatly appreciated. > >OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition >Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 >OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation >System Name >System Manufacturer INTELR >System Model AWRDACPI >System Type X86-based PC >Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2811 Mhz >BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 9/27/2006 >SMBIOS Version 2.2 >Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS >System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 >Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 >Locale United States >Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" >User Name >Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time >Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB >Available Physical Memory 1.41 GB >Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB >Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB >Page File Space 4.82 GB >Page File C:\pagefile.sys >Drive E: >Description CD-ROM Drive >Media Loaded No >Media Type CD-ROM >Name _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG >Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives) >Status OK >Transfer Rate Not Available >SCSI Target ID 0 >PNP Device ID >IDE\CDROM_NEC_DVD_RW_ND-3500AG___________________2.98____\5&3B90A244&0&0.0.0 >Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.5512 >(xpsp.080413-2108), 61.50 KB (62,976 bytes), 8/4/2004 1:59 AM) >Nero 7 Ultra System restore to 3 days ago , see what happens ? |