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Michael · 11-22-2001, 07:04 PM

A shot in the dark: is DMA enabled? Try disabling it on the cd writer and perhaps the hdd as well. Despite all the talk of enabling dma on todays cdrw's I've found some writers to be less than stable with it on. I had a couple 24x10x40 drives that would fail the write process at around 10-15% w/ DMA on; turned it off and no problem (just burns a bit slower, but faster than not at all....LOL). Good luck!

11-22-2001, 07:04 PM	#8
Michael Member (10 bit) Join Date: Mar 1999 Location: Minneapolis, minnesota, USA Posts: 748	A shot in the dark: is DMA enabled? Try disabling it on the cd writer and perhaps the hdd as well. Despite all the talk of enabling dma on todays cdrw's I've found some writers to be less than stable with it on. I had a couple 24x10x40 drives that would fail the write process at around 10-15% w/ DMA on; turned it off and no problem (just burns a bit slower, but faster than not at all....LOL). Good luck!