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March 17th, 2007 21:00
CD burner problem.
I have a Dimension 2350 with a Samsung CD/R/RW SW248F drive that has been giving an error message when it coms time to "finalize" the CD. It says something like "there was an error writing files to the disk". Up until that point, it seem like it works the way it should. I downloaded the firmware update from the Dell website, doesn't seem to help.
It seems to have this problem whether we use Roxio, or other programs to burn CDs.
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Posted March 18th, 2007 02:00
Hi. Thanks for the reply.When I go to secondary channel IDE properties, Device 0 says transfer mode DMA if available, current transfer mode, ultra DMA mode 2. device 1 says transfer mode DMA if available, current transfer mode, PIO mode. I can't see how to change that part where it says PIO mode. Should there be a way to change it?ThanksEDIT: I got it working. Under services IMAPI CD burning COM service was set to manual, instead of automatic.
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Posted March 18th, 2007 15:00
Glad to hear the news !! Jeff
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Posted March 19th, 2007 00:00
Thanks. The thing now is, I wonder how it could have gotten that way. It was working, I don't know how it could have gotten changed by itself.225
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Posted March 19th, 2007 01:00
Hi Guitarman,
If Windows detect or "thinks" it detects a problem with the drive or reading a disc it can on its own drop the device in PIO mode, why, wish I knew !!
Best Regards!
Jeff
God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do and the eyesight to tell the
difference.
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Posted March 17th, 2007 21:00
Hi Guitarman,
I am assuming you also tried a differnt brand of media as well?
Verify that the drive is running in DMA mode and not PIO mode, please click on the CD/RW link in my post and scroll to Section 15, articles 14 & 17.
Best Regards
God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do
and the eyesight to tell the difference.
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