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Yamaha CR3200S Fails Nero CD-DVD Speed Test- Error No Seek Complete (030200)
I have a Yamaha 3200S Ultra SCSI 24x8x40 CDRW installed with an
Adaptec AHA-2930CU host adapter. I'm also using an Ultra SCSI Pioneer DVD 305 DVD/CD ROM. My system is an AMD Athlon 1700+ on an ECS K7SA Mobo with 1GB of RAM and 4 harddrives. Two 40GB and two 80GB Western Digitials running XP Pro SP1. I've been able to burn CDs with no problems for 2 years. I was using Nero 5.5 to burn. I installed iTunes and noticed some intermittent burns. I uninstalled iTunes then installed Nero 6.6 and to make a long story short (installed, uninstalled and tested with Roxio Easy CD Creator and Sony CD Extreme) I ended up getting some error messages on Nero CD-DVD Speed. The error is NO SEEK COMPLETE (030200). I performed a write test with Nero CD-DVD Speed and it wrote at 24X? Sometimes blank CDs are recognized and sometimes they're not. I originally started with Fujis then bought a spool of Imations thinking it might be a bad batch of disks. The problems persisted. This drive is an IDE or SCSI drive. It ships with a powered adapter that converts the port from IDE to SCSI. I perfomed tests in both modes. I then installed the drive into an AMD K2 450 with about 468MB of RAM running Win2k Server SP4 (a machine I pieced together). The drive was recognized and I get the same errors with Nero CD-DVD Speed on this machine. On this machine the write test passed but at 8X. I have the drive hooked up to the second IDE chain as master. DMA is disabled according to Nero System Info but I cannot activate it. According to the Yamaha manual there should be a Settings tab in Device Manager where DMA mode can be switched on but that tab doesn't exist on either of my machines. Is this something that I can possibly fix? The drive is 2 years old. I sprayed it out a little bit with canned air but haven't attempted to take the cover off to see how it looks inside. TIA, P |
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On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:47:34 GMT, devilboy
wrote: I then installed the drive into an AMD K2 450 with about 468MB of RAM running Win2k Server SP4 (a machine I pieced together). The drive was recognized and I get the same errors with Nero CD-DVD Speed on this machine. On this machine the write test passed but at 8X. I have the drive hooked up to the second IDE chain as master. DMA is disabled according to Nero System Info but I cannot activate it. According to the Yamaha manual there should be a Settings tab in Device Manager where DMA mode can be switched on but that tab doesn't exist on either of my machines. This DMA issue is what I'd look at first. Can we assume you're seeing relatively high CPU utilization in the Nero tests? Are you looking for the DMA mode setting on the XP box in the properties for the controller, not the drive (you should be) ? If the controller channel is where you don't see any DMA options, try reinstalling the motherboard chipset driver. This is for the ATA interface, the SCSI should have DMA working without a checkbox BUT it may still need the motherboard chipset drivers functioning properly for busmastering in order to work properly. The K6 box, it's a bad example because the Super-7 chipsets can be really picky about (darn near anything), the best bet for that box (and consider it for your XP box too) is to update the motherboard bios and use newest chipset drivers available. |
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kony wrote in message . ..
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:47:34 GMT, devilboy wrote: I then installed the drive into an AMD K2 450 with about 468MB of RAM running Win2k Server SP4 (a machine I pieced together). The drive was recognized and I get the same errors with Nero CD-DVD Speed on this machine. On this machine the write test passed but at 8X. I have the drive hooked up to the second IDE chain as master. DMA is disabled according to Nero System Info but I cannot activate it. According to the Yamaha manual there should be a Settings tab in Device Manager where DMA mode can be switched on but that tab doesn't exist on either of my machines. This DMA issue is what I'd look at first. Can we assume you're seeing relatively high CPU utilization in the Nero tests? Are you looking for the DMA mode setting on the XP box in the properties for the controller, not the drive (you should be) ? If the controller channel is where you don't see any DMA options, try reinstalling the motherboard chipset driver. This is for the ATA interface, the SCSI should have DMA working without a checkbox BUT it may still need the motherboard chipset drivers functioning properly for busmastering in order to work properly. The K6 box, it's a bad example because the Super-7 chipsets can be really picky about (darn near anything), the best bet for that box (and consider it for your XP box too) is to update the motherboard bios and use newest chipset drivers available. The CPU is low during the tests. Typically single digits. The drive is now passing write tests intermittenly. I may have gotten lucky with the other two tests. I updated the IDE drivers through Windows update, set the channel to DMA if available. It came up as DMA 2. The HDDs are DMA 5. The writes failed before and after the IDE driver update. I opened the drive and cleaned it. The lens was barely dusty. I brushed it off with a dry Qtip. I put a slight bit of oil on the rails for the head. The head actuates when a disk is inserted. It looks like it tries to read disks twice then bombs. The LED goes from purple to blinking blue stops blinking, then blinks again before returning to purple. Steady purple LED signifies an empty drive. Blinking blue signals a read. Solid blue means a disk is inserted. That's what the LED should be when the drive has a disk in it. The drive is not even getting that far regardless of what is happening on the computer. It goes from blinking blue to solid purple. That should be independent of OS, drivers or anything on the computer I would think? I'm pretty much getting ready to write it off and buy a DVD burner. The thing that gets me is the drive worked great for two years. I've been running it on the same machine the whole time. I reinstalled the OS once but the drive always worked well. |
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