Unstable buffer whilst burning ??? NOW SOLVED

[blinky88]

Can anyone please explain why the buffer & devise buffer should become unstable whilst burning a backup with DVD Decrypter. I have recently installed a Pioneer 108D and have installed Piodata F/W v1.18. I have never experienced this problem before and have tried various configuration of the drives to overcome it however, the problem still exists.

I have not had this problem with previous 1.08 burns.

All drives are running in Ultra DMA

Any help would be very much appreciated.

[SCDVD]

There can be several causes for this. Usually it is because your system is busy running something else. If you have other tasks running, shut them down. It is also possible that you have other tasks running that you don't know about. Its a good idea to do a virus scan as well as an adware/spyware scan frequently to get rid of the sneaky stuff.

You might also defragment your hard disk and make sure that it isn't too full. Any system with a nearly full hard disc slows down quite a bit because it constrains the operating system's virtual memory operation. This is even more true when the system has a limited amout of memory. 512 MB or even 1GB of RAM does wonders for a system's performance.

[blinky88]

Thanks to SCDVD for your response. I finished up solving the problem after a couple of hours. I originally had two 10g drives on RAID 0 and I replaced them with two 20g drives. I set the pins to master and slave not thinking that is the setting for RAID 1. After changing the pin setting on both drives to master, everything was back to normal.

I guess, I'm getting a bit long on the tooth and tend to forget small things.

[blinky88]

For those people having problems with an unstable buffer and I have seen many, many posts about unstable buffers, one item to check is the pin setting of the installed drives.

[steve2713]

Hi blinky88, when you say you had an unstable buffer, just HOW unstable do you mean? Was it going from near 100% all the way down near 0%, or was it fluctuating mildly between 90-100% ? Every burner I own fluctuates slightly around 95%, I'm assuming you meant it was going from 0-100% or thereabouts, but just wanted to clarify (if only so anyone else that reads the thread knows that small fluctuations are not unusual).

[blinky88]

Hi Steve,

All way the down to zero, both buffer and the devise buffer, several times during the burn. Once I discovered my error with the pin settings on my RAID drives and corrected that error, everything returned to normal.

[chas0039]

DVD Dcrypter allows you to increase the buffer setting in the IO options. I don't exactly know what this does but it might be a place to start. I know of one post that solved a buffer problem by increasing this setting.