Have I got the cables correct.

[tomcree]

HI.....
Im having problems with my Pioneer 104 dvd rewriter,,,
I have win xp home, two hard drives a dvd rewriter and a dvd/cd rom drive....I keep getting these errors,,,,,
E80041899 Write error - buffer uncerrun occurred - (06/C5/00)
E80041925 TrackWriter error - Command retry failed -(T7118)
E800418ac Fixation Error.
I dont know what they mean,,can anyone help me with this.
Could it be that my drives and writer is on the wrong cables.
I have my 80gb hard drive as my master, with os on it.
my dvd rewriter as my slave
my dvd/cd rom as my second master
and my 60gb hard drive as my second slave...
I have also had my dvd's reversed with the same results

any advise on this would be very appreciated......
Thank You
tomcree.

[tito13kfm]

I run mine with HD1 as master on IDE1 HD2 as slave on IDE2. DVD1 as Master on IDE2 and DVD2 as Slave on IDE2.

buffer underruns means that your hard drive wasn't feeding enough information to the DVD-burner and it's buffer was depleted.

Make sure that you have DMA mode enabled, not pio. Make sure you defrag, scandisk, chkdsk, disable all background programs and try not to do anything while you burn (well you can do things, but not with the computer)

[sitlet]

do you only have 1 ide channel? i would recommend putting the dvd writer as a master is you can.

buffer underruns means that your hard drive wasn't feeding enough information to the DVD-burner and it's buffer was depleted.

yeah or it might just mean that the data isnt getting to the burner fast enough, if it has to go through another hard drive or cd drive

[tomcree]

Thanks for replying guys....

A thing I forgot to mention....
My main drive, I have it partioned into four seperate drives, could this be the problem,,

[stphilli]

The suggestion of making sure DMA is enabled on all the drives is a good one. Also, with your current setup I definitely see a possible problem if you try to burn from the 80G HD to the burner. Since they are both on the same IDE controller, you are essentially cutting your data throughput to the drive in half because the data has to use the same cable and go from the HD to the mobo and back to the drive. To remove this bottleneck, I would recommend doing as tito13kfm mentioned and using the following...

80G HD - Master IDE0
60G HD - Slave IDE0
DVD Burner - Master IDE1
DVD ROM - Slave IDE1

This will allow you to burn from either HD without problems. The only case where this is not a good setup is if you were to try to do an on-the-fly copy from dvd-rom to dvd burner, but I doubt you will need to do that very often.

EDIT I also forgot to mention that this could potentially help with ripping speeds from the burner or the dvd rom.

[tomcree]

ok stphilli

that sounds good to me,,,,,I dont often copy dvd to dvd so I'll give that a try first.....ok

Thanks a million m8

tomcree