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  1. I'm having issues with my newly acquired Sony DRU500A... So far, the ONLY media that has worked on it is the DVD+RW that came with the drive

    Nero 5.5.9.14 and RecordNow work just fine with the drive. However, i've tried Princo DVD-R, Fuji DVD+R, and Fuji DVD+RW. Everything stops midway through the burn with a Failed message. I've tried using .ISO files, as well as just drag and drop in data mode.

    With both programs it's failing around the 9% mark (PIO mode 4 [16.6MB/s]) or 19% (UDMA Mode 2 [16.6MB/s]).

    My HD is a WD 100JB "special edition" in UDMA Mode 5 (100MB/sec) set as master on IDE Primary Channel (only device). The DRU is master on the secondary IDE channel, along with an (older) Sony CDRW drive set as slave.

    Burning CD's it works fine... When in 24x mode though, Nero's "Used Read Buffer" and "Record Level Buffer" constantly hit down to 0% and then bounce back up, thanks to the Power Burn feature. Is this NORMAL? My other CD drive is only 12x, and that used to never happen.

    Even on the DRU500 at 12x it acts just like the old drive, keeps the buffer levels high.

    I don't think it has issues with streaming the data at DVD 1x, but could there be any chance that it's just starving the drive?

    Or what else could be causing problems? I was debating about holding on Sony's Tech line for 3 hours just to hear "Use Sony Media" but I didn't think it was worth it.

    Thoughts?
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  2. Sorry to hear that...how much did u pay for
    it,cause im sure everyone is wondering bout
    that,its sold out everywhere,mayb some firm
    ware upgrade will fix ur issues...i jus stick
    w/ my 1x pioneer...does it support 4x
    just wondering thx
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  3. Originally Posted by musher70
    Sorry to hear that...how much did u pay for
    it,cause im sure everyone is wondering bout
    that,its sold out everywhere,mayb some firm
    ware upgrade will fix ur issues...i jus stick
    w/ my 1x pioneer...does it support 4x
    just wondering thx
    Bought it in the states at Best Buy for #349.99.. have it on order from Dell as well for $275.00 total.

    And yes, it supports DVD-R at 4x ... to bad I can't even get it to do it at 1X!!!!!
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  4. thats a good deal i guess, im using those princo
    white sided ones on pio a04,with the firmware
    upgrade,i doubt if i would even go 4x though
    to stay away from anymore coasters
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  5. What you said about "Nero's "Used Read Buffer" and "Record Level Buffer" constantly hit down to 0% and then bounce back up"
    Sounds strange...

    I've used the DRU500A with same version of Nero Burning
    an SVCD at 24x and both buffers stay pretty much maxed out - they
    never drop.

    I have a 2 drive IDE Raid 0 setup though...

    Have you checked your drive for fragementation? Maybe that's slowing
    things down?
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  6. Media: see http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=120205

    Hardware setup: any other people have a good hardware setup? DMA, IDE channel placement, etc.
    Panasonic DMR-ES45VS, keep those discs a burnin'
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  7. Hmmm... good to know that with the read buffers and such that other people are able to burn at 24x without it hitting zero at all

    It seams to do this as soon as I burn at 16x or faster, and at first I figured that's why Power Burn and other technologies got started... kinda like a "kludge fix".. =) But it appears not.

    I DID check the fragmentation on the drive... and oh crap it was pretty bad. .. So I defragged my main drive (not enough free space on the "storage drive") and will try again with the file from there... Also took out the older CDRW and decided to use the (40pin) cable that came with the drive.

    I dont want to keep wasting DVDs, so I'm going for the "diagnose and fix as much as possible and try again" fix.. I'll post back if I get things working, as I now know for a fact that this drive works ok with this media
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  8. Still getting the same error message, even after all of the above. Here's the error code if this makes any sense to anyone:

    Disc Write Error - Sense:03 ASC:0C ASCQ:08 (Command:2A)

    Thanks to all for the suggestions.. but it looks like i've lost out with this drive so I'll have to take it back =(
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  9. sounds like a faulty drive. Few of them around at the moment. Mine has stopped working altogether now and wont even spin the disc.

    Problem is for me I bought it in the US but live in the UK so I cant even take it back.
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    IT going down to 0 and bouncing back up isnt odd, that's just the powerburn kicking in and letting the buffer get it'self back togather, it will burn at whatever speed it can get data until it can get enough info in it's buffer to burn at high speed
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  11. For anyone that was following this....

    I went out today and picked up the Pioneer 104 drive. Installed it in my system as in (to which the DRU didn't work), and guess what?

    ZERO PROBLEMS. PERIOD.

    So now I know for sure that it's something with the drive.. I am going to return it and get a new one tomorrow just to see if by chance the drive was defective. However, If not that's the end of the line for me with the DRU500

    All media working great on the Pioneer 104 .... but I know most of you know that already =)

    Thanks again to all those who offered support and suggetions. it's MUCH appreciated
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  12. I will be receiving my sony 4x burner shortly...will let you know of my results. I use Riteks.
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  13. dude reason your read buffer is going down is due to pio mode.. if you select your transfer mode to programmed input output mode (PIO) then it will not be able to transfer directly so when cdr /dvd is writing it cannot get data to buffer.. when buffering it cannot write.. so basically 1 task at a time.. with dma mode this will not be the case.. your buffer should stay up high unless your doing other work that uses harddisk etc.. so keep your drive on DMA mode..
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  14. gianniz wrote:
    dude reason your read buffer is going down is due to pio mode
    your explanation makes reasonable sense to me xcept for the fact that I am currently running a Pioneer A03 on PIO mode and when burning CD's or DVD's with Nero, the read buffer stays above 90% all the way through unless I am stupid enough to try and start a disk or processor intensive task during burning. This is on an Athlon 800 system.
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  15. FWIW, I've been trying to burn a DVD created with IFOEdit in Nero 5.5.9.14, and have had nothing but problems. I keep getting spontaneous reboots and BSODs. I"m going to try to author the .IFO set in SpruceUp instead, and see if I have better luck.
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  16. I fixed my BSOD/reboot problems. Turns out, it was outdated motherboard firmware. I have an ABIT KT7A, and was running an old February 2001 BIOS build. I updated to the newest firmware, dated July 2002, and my problems magically disappeared.

    I'm now watching Bang, Bang, You're Dead (good film BTW) ripped from my DirecTiVo on my Malata DVP-520.
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  17. Originally Posted by s_lipowitz
    Still getting the same error message, even after all of the above. Here's the error code if this makes any sense to anyone:

    Disc Write Error - Sense:03 ASC:0C ASCQ:08 (Command:2A)

    Thanks to all for the suggestions.. but it looks like i've lost out with this drive so I'll have to take it back =(
    You may want to try switching media.

    I got that too; then I switched media which worked fine;
    I have since been able to burn the original media that cause the error too!

    The Fuji DVD+R media is on the 'bad' list in the DRU-500A media post, and Princo DVD-R is incompatible according to the vendor I bought some DVD-Rs from today.
    I know some people (or one person?) have (has) had success with Princo, but I would try Ritek or TDK if you don't mind spending a bit more.

    It's up to you, but I did originally get the exact same error...
    Since then I have burned 3 straight good burns (TDK, Prodisc and even a DVDPro DVD-R which is not supposed to work...)
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  18. I have a Sony DRU-500A and have burnt to the following disks successfully: Fuji DVD+RW (2.4x)(as video using both Nero and Sonic MyDVD), Memorex DVD-R (1x)(as data using Nero) and K-Hypermedia DVD-R(1x)(as data using Nero). The video DVDs seem to work fine in my 2 standalone players (Pioneer DVL-909 and Sampo 611) but I didn't go through every second as I burnt them just to check out the system. The data DVDs were checked using the file check built into Nero and checked on my Toshiba DVD-ROM drive using a file compairer. The only problem that I've found is that my Toshiba DVD-ROM drive doesn't like DVD-RW disks (but that isn't a Sony problem).

    Todd M
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