Freezing while burning with CopyToDVD

[IndianCreek]

Greetings,

I'm having problems with my burns freezing and I have to restart in order to get my desktop operable again. I am using CopyToDVD and I have a NEC-2510A. I researched the CopyToDVD Log and this is what I found:
10/8/2004 7:31:23 PM info ********** Report session closed ***********
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info Detected media $0011 : DVD-R
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info Finished browsing files - Data size 4.37 Gb.
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info Start Browsing file structures
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info Writing device used : 0:1:0 - _NEC DVD_RW ND-2510A 2.04 [F] (Ide)
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info Using Patin-Couffin driver Version 1.19, Internal revision 19
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info Checking Access layer availability
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info Using DVD Video creation mode.
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info ParamStr 1 = "/dvdvideo=I:\Fahrenheit 911"
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info ParamStr 0 = "C:\PROGRA~1\vso\COPYTO~1\CopyToCd.exe"
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info User default language : 1033 (0x0409h) - English (United States)
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info System default language : 1033 (0x0409h) - English (United States)
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info Version 2.4.1.244
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info Title : CopyToDVD
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info ExeName : "C:\PROGRA~1\vso\COPYTO~1\CopyToCd.exe"
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info OS : Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4 (Build 2195)
10/8/2004 7:31:22 PM info ******************** Report session started ********************
10/8/2004 6:25:31 PM info ********** Report session closed ***********
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info Detected media $0011 : DVD-R
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info Finished browsing files - Data size 4.37 Gb.
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info Start Browsing file structures
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info Writing device used : 0:1:0 - _NEC DVD_RW ND-2510A 2.04 [F] (Ide)
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info Using Patin-Couffin driver Version 1.19, Internal revision 19
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info Checking Access layer availability
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info Using DVD Video creation mode.
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info ParamStr 1 = "/dvdvideo=I:\Fahrenheit 911"
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info ParamStr 0 = "C:\PROGRA~1\vso\COPYTO~1\CopyToCd.exe"
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info User default language : 1033 (0x0409h) - English (United States)
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info System default language : 1033 (0x0409h) - English (United States)
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info Version 2.4.1.244
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info Title : CopyToDVD
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info ExeName : "C:\PROGRA~1\vso\COPYTO~1\CopyToCd.exe"
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info OS : Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4 (Build 2195)
10/8/2004 6:25:10 PM info ******************** Report session started ********************
This is only a couple of logs of failed burns from the complete log file.

I also looked into Win2k's System log (Right-Click My Computer > Manage, Computer Managment > System Tools > Event Viewer > System) and this is what I've been finding:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Removable Storage Service
Event Category: None
Event ID: 116
Date: 10/13/2004
Time: 9:37:01 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ATLANTA
Description:
RSM could not identify the media in drive Drive 0 of library _NEC DVD_RW ND-2510A. An error was encountered while attempting to read data from the media.
Data:
0000: 01 00 00 00 ....

Event Type: Error
Event Source: dmboot
Event Category: None
Event ID: 2
Date: 10/13/2004
Time: 9:35:25 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ATLANTA
Description:
dmboot: Failed to start volume Volume2 (no mountpoint)
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 02 00 4e 00 ......N.
0008: 00 00 00 00 02 00 50 c0 ......PÀ
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Removable Storage Service
Event Category: None
Event ID: 116
Date: 10/11/2004
Time: 10:19:44 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ATLANTA
Description:
RSM could not identify the media in drive Drive 0 of library _NEC DVD_RW ND-2510A. An error was encountered while attempting to read data from the media.
Data:
0000: 01 00 00 00 ....

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Pcouffin
Event Category: None
Event ID: 43
Date: 10/9/2004
Time: 3:52:32 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ATLANTA
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 43 ) in Source ( Pcouffin ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event: .
Data:
0000: 16 00 00 00 01 00 c2 00 ......Â.
0008: 00 00 00 00 2b 00 04 c0 ....+..À
0010: 02 00 03 00 11 00 00 80 .......€
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

The first of these errors is what catches my eye as what may be the cause of my difficulties. The freezing doesn't always happen @ the same point in the burn, I've observed that it occurs anywhere from 8% to 15 seconds left on Finalization. I have tried to make sure that I keep enough free space on both the Data Hard drive I'm burning from and the System hard drive for Cache memory, but I still get freezing sometimes. To give an idea of how often it happens, I probably have 10-15 coasters out of every 100 discs.
If anyone can help me with this please respond, hate wasting resources (discs, and most of all TIME).

[IndianCreek]

Today I disconnected the removeable storage tray, to see if it was the cause of the problem. I suspected this after repeatedly making coasters and finally realizing that the 'RMS removable storage device' that the system event viewer was referring to was indeed my removable tray. I have burned about 5 or 6 movies back to back since I have done this and had no problems so far...I will keep you updated.

Could anyone help me with why this Removable storage system is causing such a problem? I bought an IDE controller with hopes of connecting most of my hard drives to my system at the same time in order to save time rather than shutting down and switching hard drives whenever I want to burn something from another hard drive, but it caused even worse problems when I installed it with the Removable Storage Tray still connected. I'll try to installed the IDE Controller w/o the Removable Storage Tray and then see how it goes. BTW, the Controller is a Promise TX2, if you have any suggestions on better controllers, please link me to them.

peace

[jbelder]

Your controller card sounds fine maybe the configuration in the bios did you check the bios?Maybe try the newest version of copytodvd to see if thats not the problem.

Today I disconnected the removeable storage tray, to see if it was the cause of the problem. I suspected this after repeatedly making coasters and finally realizing that the 'RMS removable storage device' that the system event viewer was referring to was indeed my removable tray. I have burned about 5 or 6 movies back to back since I have done this and had no problems so far...I will keep you updated.

Could anyone help me with why this Removable storage system is causing such a problem? I bought an IDE controller with hopes of connecting most of my hard drives to my system at the same time in order to save time rather than shutting down and switching hard drives whenever I want to burn something from another hard drive, but it caused even worse problems when I installed it with the Removable Storage Tray still connected. I'll try to installed the IDE Controller w/o the Removable Storage Tray and then see how it goes. BTW, the Controller is a Promise TX2, if you have any suggestions on better controllers, please link me to them.

peace