Nero 5.5.10.20 and Power-Burn

[igalan]

I have noticed that the latest releases of Nero (5.5.10.20 and 5.5.10.15) don't use Power-Burn on my Sony DRU500A (Sony's buffer underrun technology.)

Can anyone that has this burner confirm this problem? Or the oposite, is it working for you?

When I choose the burner in Nero, I can see that the check box for PowerBurn is activated, so it's detected at least. But when burning (DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW or DVD-R) it's not used! With older releases of Nero (can't remember which ones) I could see that Power-Burn was being used because during burning Nero showed a message like "Initializing Power-Burn" or something similar, and the information of the burner's buffer was not used (it was blank, instead of reflecting the buffer state.) Because of this I had the first coaster because of a buffer underrun

I don't use the Nero ASPI, I use the same ASPI (with ForceASPI) drivers as always...

[igalan]

Please, someone with the Sony DRU500A/AX and Nero can tell me if Power-Burn is used or not when burning DVD. I want to know if it's a specific problem on my computer or it's a general problem with Nero.
Come on, many people has this burner and surely some of them use Nero

[quandd09]

I've been using 5.5.10.15 to 5.5.10.20, 'PowerBurn' is detected in the Driver Options, but did not show up in the 'Burn' dialog. So there's nothing wrong with your drive/computer.
Sony DRU-500AX.

Kudos,
Quan.

[igalan]

Thanks for the answer. However I remener that in the burn dialog appeared something like "Initializing PowerBurn successfully", and the burner buffer graphic was disabled during the whole burn process. Now this doesn't happen. So I think that Nero is not using PowerBurn. This and the coaster DVD-R because of a buffer underrun...

[TBoneit]

Well, I have been using Nero 5 (5.x) for a while now....

Plextor 12x , Aopen 24X, LiteOn 32X, Sony 500A...

And they use different names for buffer under-run prevention, however the buffer percentage has always shown %used...

I haven't ever had a coaster from buffer under-run with nero... Even when I made the mistake of putting the Burner on a Promise controller card and the buffer was all over the place and slower than heck... Buffer under-run kept the disks working.

As to it showing I'l have to look tonight and see.

Cheers