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ccie2b -> RE: HELP!!! Sony CRX175A & ClonyXXL/CloneCD (10/28/2002 9:47:05 AM)
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Tron,
After making about a half dozen coasters, I've finally figured out what my problem was. For those of you who may have similar problem as I had, I hope this is informative.
As it is list as one of the compatible drives on the CCD site, my Sony CRX175A was working properly and wasn't the problem at all. Let me explain briefly what I was experiencing. In making a copy, I ran the ClonyXXL to first determine the type of protection and launched CCD from the ClonyXXL interface. Went through all the steps to actually start the copying process in CCD. The buffer level reached 100%. So far so good. My problem was that, after the buffer level reached its full status and the actual burning started, at about 3%, the buffer level started dropping significantly...90, 80, 50, 30, 10, 5%...and to 0%. Even though the recording indicator progressed to 4, 5, and so on, the buffer indicator didn't seem to come back up. It would take over 30 mins for the indicator to reach 100% and even spit out the cd saying that the recording was successful. To my dismay, when I tried to read the copy, it was unreadable and didn't allow me to access the contents.
After noticing that my friend who was successfully making copies had his buffer constantly stay above 90% throughout the burning process, I figured that was where my problem was. To make the long story short, it was my reader that caused the problem...a generic 56x cdrom. When I used my Toshiba DVD drive, the buffer stayed up. To even further optimize the burning process, I made my CDRW a secondary master w/ no slave attached, my DVD drive a primary master off of a PCI IDE controller. I basically had dedicated controllers for each device. That seemed to knock off a good 30 seconds off the burning process.
Thanks. Hope this helps someone.
[:D]
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