Recorder Buffer Level Indicator In NERO

Ever since this morning when I go to burn a CDR it is taking twice as
long as it did yesterday. Also the recorder buffer level indicator in
Nero is now going back and forth from about 10% to 90%. Before when
the burn started the flashing light would stay on now it is starting
and stopping like burn proof is being used.

Also at times if I go to move my cursor it almost like frozen for a
few seconds.

Nothing has changed since yesterday when everything was fine.

Running under XP Pro and in device manager under the IDE/ATAPI
controller it is showing "use DMA if available" like before. But
something is sure wrong.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

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Ever since this morning when I go to burn a CDR it is taking twice as
long as it did yesterday. Also the recorder buffer level indicator in
Nero is now going back and forth from about 10% to 90%. Before when
the burn started the flashing light would stay on now it is starting
and stopping like burn proof is being used.

Also at times if I go to move my cursor it almost like frozen for a
few seconds.

Nothing has changed since yesterday when everything was fine.

Running under XP Pro and in device manager under the IDE/ATAPI
controller it is showing "use DMA if available" like before. But
something is sure wrong.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

What you are seeing is some form of buffer-underrun protection taking
effect. The particular flavor depends on your (unnamed) drive, but
whatever it is, slowdown of a factor of two or more is exactly what one
would expect.

The cure depends on knowing why the buffer was underrunning all of a
sudden - and that depends on undisclosed factors, such as what sort of a
write you were doing, whether it happened once, repeatedly with the same
source or with a variety of sources.

Given some information, one of us may be able to help you.

Mike
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http://www.mrichter.com/

In XP, the problem is most likely to be that your drive(s) have reverted to
PIO mode. It's a well-known bug in XP. Go to device manager and check it.
(on the IDE controller, not the drive). If it is so, (check the hard
drive(s) too), then uninstall the controller and reboot, that should fix it.
If they still show UDMA status, do the same thing anyway just to be sure.


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Ever since this morning when I go to burn a CDR it is taking twice as
long as it did yesterday. Also the recorder buffer level indicator in
Nero is now going back and forth from about 10% to 90%. Before when
the burn started the flashing light would stay on now it is starting
and stopping like burn proof is being used.

Also at times if I go to move my cursor it almost like frozen for a
few seconds.

Nothing has changed since yesterday when everything was fine.

Running under XP Pro and in device manager under the IDE/ATAPI
controller it is showing "use DMA if available" like before. But
something is sure wrong.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:36:14 -0700, Mike Richter
wrote:

What you are seeing is some form of buffer-underrun protection taking
effect. The particular flavor depends on your (unnamed) drive, but
whatever it is, slowdown of a factor of two or more is exactly what one
would expect.

It is a Plextor PXW 40

The cure depends on knowing why the buffer was underrunning all of a
sudden - and that depends on undisclosed factors, such as what sort of a
write you were doing, whether it happened once, repeatedly with the same
source or with a variety of sources.

Burning MP3 files to an audio CD Disk At Once. It happens all the time
now regardless of what I am trying to burn. Even data disks.

Given some information, one of us may be able to help you.

Thanks Mike I hope you can.

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:07:52 -0600, "Dan G" wrote:

In XP, the problem is most likely to be that your drive(s) have reverted to
PIO mode. It's a well-known bug in XP. Go to device manager and check it.
(on the IDE controller, not the drive). If it is so, (check the hard
drive(s) too), then uninstall the controller and reboot, that should fix it.
If they still show UDMA status, do the same thing anyway just to be sure.

Thank You! Thank You!

Exactly the problem the CD drive had reverted to PIO. Uninstalled the
secondary as well as the primary just to be sure as you said.

Problem Solved.

Thank you again. I was going crazy.

If you look in the Event Viewer, you may see recent CDROM errors showing. XP
will switch to PIO if it detects a certain number of errors. Nobody knows
why.
Windows2000 rules.....




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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:07:52 -0600, "Dan G" wrote:

In XP, the problem is most likely to be that your drive(s) have reverted
to
PIO mode. It's a well-known bug in XP. Go to device manager and check it.
(on the IDE controller, not the drive). If it is so, (check the hard
drive(s) too), then uninstall the controller and reboot, that should fix
it.
If they still show UDMA status, do the same thing anyway just to be sure.

Thank You! Thank You!

Exactly the problem the CD drive had reverted to PIO. Uninstalled the
secondary as well as the primary just to be sure as you said.

Problem Solved.

Thank you again. I was going crazy.

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:15:30 -0600, "Dan G" wrote:

If you look in the Event Viewer, you may see recent CDROM errors showing. XP
will switch to PIO if it detects a certain number of errors. Nobody knows
why.

Strange thing not a one there.

Windows2000 rules.....

You are not the first person to say that. :-((

Thanks again Dan.