I/O error

[sentricyphen]

could somone pleeease tell me what the heck is going on with my dvdr drive??
I keep getting this error when i try to rip or burn. it happens just about in the middle, so i cant get anything done. I also just formatted my drive, thinking that it would solve the problem....

[Tilandra]

I see a SCSI message in there... is it on some scuzzy bus? I'm not too familiar with SCSI cause I've always found them to be a pain in the butt to get set up.

Is this a newly installed drive? or has it been humming right along and now it's acting up all of a sudden?

If it's newly installed, check your jumper settings and make sure master/slave settings are okay. If it's been in there a while, did you install or uninstall any hardware or software right about the time it started acting up?

If all this fails, try taking out one stick of memory, then replacing it and taking out another... see if it still acts up. I recently had my processor go out on me, and that can turn up all kinds of whacky symptoms too.

[salami]

Try disabling Auto Insert Notification if it's enabled.
Here are a couple of good links about it.

http://dvdxcopy.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/17600

http://help.acoustica.com/mp3-cd-burner/2kain.htm

Make sure to reboot after making this change.

[sentricyphen]

well, I had it for about 2 months now.
it worked for about a month and then gave up on me.
no thats the odd thing its not scsi. its atapi.
i tryed to delete it , reboot...nothing worked. the cpu? no i really doubt that that is my trouble, nothing else is going wrong.

ill follow those links and see if they help.

[sentricyphen]

hmm well i tried disabling auto insert, and i am still recieving the exact same error..... any ideas as to what i should do now?? anyone at all?

[BarryHL]

Uninstall the drive and reinstall it, that sometimes works for me.

Also what program are you using for ripping? I use "DVD Decrypter" it seems to be the best.

And lastly you would be better off buying a seperate DVD-ROM for ripping like the Liteon-166. It's really fast and really cheap.

Hope something there helps.

Barry