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Problems with CD-RW

Posted: 07-07-2003, 01:33 PM
Mike
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I have an eMachines T2200 and it came with a Samsung CD-
R/RW SW-240B. Although the XP "write files to this CD"
utility seems to complete correctly when I burn files to
a CD, it seems I can never see the contents of these CD's
when I place them back in the drive at a later time. In
fact XP seems to slow a bit or hang for a few seconds
when I put burned CD's back in the drive, and then
ultimately comes back with a "0 objects" status for the
CD. A lot of times XP doesn't even recognize that there
is a CD in the drive if the CD has been written to
previously. I know there are files on these disks because
I burned them previously. For a period of time I tried
using Nero to format and burn CD's and had the same
problems - couldn't recognize CD's in the drive and I
couldn't see burned files. Any ideas or advice would be
greatly appreciated.
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Jack Richins
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Problems with CD-RW
Posted: 07-07-2003, 03:13 PM
Do you get any error messages in Event Viewer? You can
check by going to Control Panel, open Administrative
Tools, and then Event Viewer. This sounds kind of like my
problem - wish I had a solution as well .

Jack
>-----Original Message-----
>I have an eMachines T2200 and it came with a Samsung CD-
>R/RW SW-240B. Although the XP "write files to this CD"
>utility seems to complete correctly when I burn files to
>a CD, it seems I can never see the contents of these
CD's
>when I place them back in the drive at a later time. In
>fact XP seems to slow a bit or hang for a few seconds
>when I put burned CD's back in the drive, and then
>ultimately comes back with a "0 objects" status for the
>CD. A lot of times XP doesn't even recognize that there
>is a CD in the drive if the CD has been written to
>previously. I know there are files on these disks
because
>I burned them previously. For a period of time I tried
>using Nero to format and burn CD's and had the same
>problems - couldn't recognize CD's in the drive and I
>couldn't see burned files. Any ideas or advice would be
>greatly appreciated.
>.
>
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Mike
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Problems with CD-RW
Posted: 07-07-2003, 03:32 PM
Yes, indeed, and I had never known this until now:

The device, \Device\CdRom1, has a bad block.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Any ideas based on this?
>-----Original Message-----
>Do you get any error messages in Event Viewer? You can
>check by going to Control Panel, open Administrative
>Tools, and then Event Viewer. This sounds kind of like
my
>problem - wish I had a solution as well .
>
>Jack
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have an eMachines T2200 and it came with a Samsung CD-
>>R/RW SW-240B. Although the XP "write files to this CD"
>>utility seems to complete correctly when I burn files
to
>>a CD, it seems I can never see the contents of these
>CD's
>>when I place them back in the drive at a later time. In
>>fact XP seems to slow a bit or hang for a few seconds
>>when I put burned CD's back in the drive, and then
>>ultimately comes back with a "0 objects" status for the
>>CD. A lot of times XP doesn't even recognize that there
>>is a CD in the drive if the CD has been written to
>>previously. I know there are files on these disks
>because
>>I burned them previously. For a period of time I tried
>>using Nero to format and burn CD's and had the same
>>problems - couldn't recognize CD's in the drive and I
>>couldn't see burned files. Any ideas or advice would be
>>greatly appreciated.
>>.
>>
>.
>
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Jack Richins
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Problems with CD-RW
Posted: 07-07-2003, 04:51 PM
The solution that worked for my system was to set the
transfer mode of my CD device to PIO only.

You do this by opening the Control Panel, opening the
System icon, go to the Hardware tab, and clicking
the "Device Manager" button.
Go to the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers node and expand it.
Right click and select properties on the channel you CD
resides on (for me it was the "Secondary IDE Channel").
Go to the Advanced Settings tab
Change the device (device 0 for me) giving you problems
to Transfer Mode = "PIO Only".

Hopes this helps others,
Jack

P.S., anyone know what the downside is to PIO only? Or
why "DMA if available" didn't automatically degrade to
PIO if DMA wasn't working? I ran Dell Diagnositics and it
didn't find anything wrong with DMA.
>-----Original Message-----
>Yes, indeed, and I had never known this until now:
>
>The device, \Device\CdRom1, has a bad block.
>
>For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
>Any ideas based on this?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Do you get any error messages in Event Viewer? You can
>>check by going to Control Panel, open Administrative
>>Tools, and then Event Viewer. This sounds kind of like
>my
>>problem - wish I had a solution as well .
>>
>>Jack
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>I have an eMachines T2200 and it came with a Samsung
CD-
>>>R/RW SW-240B. Although the XP "write files to this
CD"
>>>utility seems to complete correctly when I burn files
>to
>>>a CD, it seems I can never see the contents of these
>>CD's
>>>when I place them back in the drive at a later time.
In
>>>fact XP seems to slow a bit or hang for a few seconds
>>>when I put burned CD's back in the drive, and then
>>>ultimately comes back with a "0 objects" status for
the
>>>CD. A lot of times XP doesn't even recognize that
there
>>>is a CD in the drive if the CD has been written to
>>>previously. I know there are files on these disks
>>because
>>>I burned them previously. For a period of time I tried
>>>using Nero to format and burn CD's and had the same
>>>problems - couldn't recognize CD's in the drive and I
>>>couldn't see burned files. Any ideas or advice would
be
>>>greatly appreciated.
>>>.
>>>
>>.
>>
>.
>
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