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Panasonic CW-7586-B NOT WORKING

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by mike (from canada) 2 views

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I have recently purchased the cd writer (name in topic) along with 5 CD's (manufacturer is verbatim). When I tried to use the included software (Prassi Primo CD plus version 2.0), it wont let me burn cd's over 3MB. First, I thought it was because I had long filenames. so I removed that and tried again. still no luck. Now I tried to copy about 5 files totalling about 3.5MB all in the same folder and the files follow the ISO level 1 format. It wont let me do that either. At first I assume that the software is screwed up. but then when I tried it with nero, it gives me a scsi timeout error YET I am using an IDE drive! so I have figured that my problem is that the CD drive is equipped with a timeout value and somewhere in my system, it is set too low. Is there a value in the registry I can change which also changes the timeout value or is there software I can download?

I need help here and I only need to backup 250MB data!

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by dcosgrove

you may wish to look in the device properties in the hardware manager and see if turning off DMA alows you to burn. Otherwise it souds as though the drive is not fuctioning.

by isys

Experiment with the recording speed. A SCSI timeout is an indication that your data throughput is faster than the hardware can handle. Take the recording speed down to 2X if you can.

by mike (from canada)

I tried recording at 2X (lowest possible for the CD) and it can only go up tp 2MB. When I tried 4X, it went only to 1MB. I tried it at 1X, and it went to about 3 or 4MB.

What else can I try?

by dmiles

If changing the settings are not working then you may ant to try caching the files to your hard drive before burning

See the following sites
1)www.cdcopies.com/faq/
2)www.fadden.com/cdfaq/

by mike (from canada)

Caching makes it worse. CDRWIN recommends not to use caching. I successfully burned ONE cd when I attached a 2nd hard drive to my computer and use that as an image fileholder.

by pete.lowrey

Hi

1, Have you gone back to basics and defragged yet?
2, Try it with an 80 way IDE cable
3, Try putting the writer on an IDE channel by its self

Good luck

by mike (from canada)

1. Yes and it made no difference
2. what do you mean by an "80 way IDE cable"?
3. I tried that as well and noticed that I cant access it in pure dos. I have to have it on the same channel as the hard drive so that it can be enabled in pure DOS.

by pete.lowrey

Hi 80 way cable is UDMA 66/100, it has 80 lines to a 40 head, it must be jumpered to cable select, I have had bother with some of the latest drives as they are UDMA 2/4 and seem to like UDMA cables, when you enabled DMA in windows did you enable it on the HDD and the CDRW? if not give it a try.

by mike (from canada)

Thanks. I researched this somewhere else on the internet and it told me to add a few lines to an INF file and when I reinstall the hard drive drivers in windows, I can record CDs at the FULL 8X speed. You get the points for mentioning that it was the DMA.

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