🚀 go-pugleaf

This is but one problem I was having (static, usually on tracks over half way
in).

I went nuts trying to consistently burn good CDs on my system, and it finally
came down to removing an older NEC hard drive from the IDE bus (I was keeping
my old 2.1 GB drive on board for the extra storage capacity).  It also seemed
flaky with an Afreey 2050 CD ROM drive, so I took that back (for a refund -
only had it 10 days).  I was going in circles.  Sometimes burning CDs was a
snap, other times I'd be at it all night trying to burn one, other times, every
attempt to write resulted in Write errors.  I was pulling my hair out.

Now, with my HD as Primary Master, and my Ricoh 7060A as Secondary Master (and
that's all!), I get consistently excellent results.  And I'm using only cheap
CompUSA branded media.  (I guess I didn't want to burn audio on the fly,
anyway.)

Obviously, this is not the solution for everyone.  I have an older system -
PI166 on an upgraded Socket 7 mboard with a VIA chip set (VIA Apollo MPV3
Chipset - had to go through contortions to get the IDE bus "drivers?" loaded
right).  Oh, and Win95 (I'm ready to throw in the towel and get Win98SE).

I just wanted to share my experience.  I spent days rearranging things on the
IDE buses and finally narrowed it down to removing devices and keeping only one
HD and the CD writer.

Have fun  (I hated those time consuming troubleshooting sessions).


Lee McC wrote:

> Most likely, the NEC is bad at DAE.  You may try experimenting with
> different media and different burn speeds - and that may clear up the
> problem but in all likelihood, the NEC may need a flickin'.
>
> :o)
>
> "spamoff" <spamoff@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4vow6.5125$45.25991@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I copy a CD on the fly, the burnt CD plays back with a static sound
> in
> > the background.
> > The reader is a 40X SCSI NEC CD-3010A drive (configured as SCSI ID 2) and
> > the CDR is a 6X24 Teac 56S (configured as SCSI ID 3).  Both devices are
> > connected to an Iwill 2936UWE SCSI adapter card.
> >
> > The SCSI termination is set on the CDROM reader (the NEC drive) and the
> > termination on the writer is set to 'off'.
> > Both drives play original audio CDs without any distortion.  However,
> > distortion occurs on both drives when I play a copied CD.
> >
> > This problem has only occurred since I added the NEC cdrom to my PC.  I
> > previously had an IDE CDROM as the reader and recorded without any
> problems
> > to the Teac SCSI burner (+ Iwill adapter).
> >
> > Before giving the flick to the NEC drive and re-installing the previous
> IDE
> > CDROM drive, what should I be looking at to rectify this problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Shane
> >
> > --
> > Please replace "spamoff" with "snrcit" for personal replies.

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