Sony DRU-500A & InCD / DLA

[igalan]

I just purchased this DVD burner. It worked perfectly burning DVD-R HiTech (plays fine on the stand alone DVD ) . Also burned a CD-RW with some backups perfectly (Sony CD-RW).

Buuuut packed writting software isn't working! I tried InCD 3.51.61 (latest) it will format the CD-RW or DVD+RW with no problems, but any file written is corrupted. Then I tried Veritas DLA 3.58 (downloaded from Sony) and got the same results. My guess is that both software aren't compatible with this drive (not yet), because burning the same files in the same media works fine... Anyone can help? I didn't try DirectCD; buying EZCD just to get DirectCD is too much (and I don't like EZCD at all).

[igalan]

I'm replying to myself . I've narrowed the problem. I've connected the burner to a different computer (with Windows 2000 SP3) and the problem is not present. So the problem is either incompatibility with the IDE controller of the MB (Asus A7A266 BIOS 1011), or the cable is bad (80 wires UDMA cable) or some software incompatibility with Windows XP... But the burner isn't faulty as I thought.

If someone has the same motherboard as I do and this DVD burner, please tell me. I would like to know if the problem is in the IDE controller or Windows XP.

[beeman1]

I also Have the Asus-A7a-266. I'm not having any luck with this drive. Sony Tech support has been useless.

[igalan]

Today I will install the latest Ultra IDE Driver 4.0.0.7 (included in the integrated driver 1.091) to see if I have more luck with this driver. If it works I will tell you. The cons of this driver is that it doesn't support hibernate & standby, but if the burner runs fine, I can live with this. If this still doesn't work the only option left is to buy a PCI IDE controller (for 25€ you can get one that even supports RAID 0 and 1).
Which OS do you use? Which IDE driver?

[beeman1]

That sounds like a good idea. I think I will try that myself. I read in the setup booklet that the drive should not be run on an ATA card. I also read( but I don't remember where) that you should't run it on the same cable as another cd drive. That is the next step. Please let me know how you make out. Beeman1.

[beeman1]

Hooray- I made my first usable DVD. I went into Setup and Defined the drive as a CD-Rom and disabled UDMA. I also pulled the plug on the othert device on that IDE cable. My Lite on CD Burner. I reconnect that and see what happens. I would like to keep that in the system.

[igalan]

The Ultra IDE driver 4.0.0.7 didn't make any difference, the issue was not fixed. The Ali Win2K driver 1.4.2.0 did not improve eighter . I did set the DVD as CD-ROM and then disable UDMA, but that did not make a difference for me . As I said, I can burn DVD-R, DVD+RW, CD-RW, whatever, but the burner will fail reading the files (however the same CD works fine in the DVD-ROM).

So have you been able to read a CD-RW perfectly? Can you use InCD or some other packet writting driver? What driver are you using? What OS? I will try further, if you have the same MB, I should be able to do the same... Thanks for telling me.

[beeman1]

I am running an Athlon 1400 with 524mb of ddr ram.For right now I am using the Sony DVD+RW that came with the drive.

[beeman1]

I forgot to mention I have EZCD Creater in there but I haven't Tried Direct CD Yet.

[igalan]

But which OS are you using? I'm using Windows XP home SP1 with Ali 1.4.2.0 IDE driver. I have a DVD-ROM as slave (BenQ 16x) plugged to the Sony DVD, I will try removing it. BTW, I've tried Nero.

[beeman1]

I am using XP Pro. I am using the default microsoft IDE Driver that XP installed when I installed XP. I reconnected my CD Burner. A Lit-on 48125W to the Primary as a slave. I burned another DVD using the Sony DVD+RW that came with the drive. Using the Veritas software. It came out OK. You might try going into hardware properties and see if you can do an update from microsoft on that driver. I have EZCD Creater5 in the system also Which I updated to the latest version.

[igalan]

Goood, I also got it working perfectly!!! Even InCD works flawless . I did excatly the same as you: in the BIOS set the DVD as CD-ROM and disable UDMA, disable UDMA in the Windows XP Driver, and unplug the slave DVD-ROM, this last thing has made the trick (I didn't try both at the same time). So now I will do some more tests and see if I can use UDMA or not.

Since I have two HDD it's a problem removing the DVD-ROM, which is able to read at 16x (Sonu DRU500A only 2x with DVD). The DVD-ROM rips a full DVD in less than 12 mins...

[beeman1]

I pluged the slave back in and set it to auto. It seems to be working ok so far but I havent tried all th possibilities yet.