Blindwrite experiences

[SirQUK]

Anyone experiencing problems or having great sucess with Blindwrite, please feel free to post your findings here....No FLAMING please!

[SweGuy]

I have been having a problem with the new version of BW. It will not write to my cheap memorex cdr. It simply states that the media cannot be used. Have a nice weekend,

[SnoopDixs]

When ever I use this software it will show 1% read for around 5 minutes. Then it says my hardware has changed and my cd-rom gets removed from device manager and will no longer work. I can't even open the cd-rom drive. I have to shut the computer off and manualy get the cd out. This program works fine on my other computer and I am not doing anything differently. I have upgraded my firmware to the latest verison for my cd-rom and cdr. I have an lg GCR-8523B cd-rom and a lg GCC-4520B CD-RW DVD ROM. Can I do anything else to get this program working or is it never going to work with my cdrom? Thanks

[chaosmaker]

make sure your drives are using DMA, sounds like they are switching to PIO when you start to burn. Install your latest chipset drivers.

[SnoopDixs]

I'm not sure what you mean by dma or pio. Chipset drivers? Are you refering to the mother board. If you could give me the steps on how to do this I would really appreciate it. Also, the problem occurs both during the read phase and the write phase to both my cd-roms. Heres some of my log: 4/10/2004 5:01:03 PM info Loaded copy profile Automatic 4/10/2004 5:01:03 PM warning A device removal/adding has been detected during Idle state 4/10/2004 5:00:01 PM error Media has changed. Please re-insert the same media 4/10/2004 5:00:01 PM info Media topology isn't required 4/10/2004 5:00:01 PM info Extraction successful in 11:04 4/10/2004 4:59:23 PM warning A device removal/adding has been detected during a R/W operation 4/10/2004 4:49:08 PM info Free Space on destination path 83 Gb. 4/10/2004 4:49:08 PM info Reading CD-ROM Disc [HALO] - Image Size 723 Mb. 4/10/2004 4:49:08 PM info Read data without subcodes for track 1 and following 4/10/2004 4:49:08 PM warning Can't find a read method to read subcodes in DATA track 4/10/2004 4:48:56 PM info Reading device : 1:1:0 - HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8523B 1.02 [E] (Ide) 4/10/2004 4:48:56 PM info Extraction started 4/10/2004 4:48:44 PM info Loaded copy profile Automatic 4/10/2004 4:48:26 PM info Using Patin-Couffin driver Version 1.21, Internal revision 21 4/10/2004 4:48:26 PM info Autoplay driver active. Version 5 4/10/2004 4:48:26 PM info ParamStr 0 = "C:\Program Files\VSO\BlindWrite5\BW.exe" 4/10/2004 4:48:26 PM info User default language : 1033 (0x0409h) - English (United States) 4/10/2004 4:48:26 PM info System default language : 1033 (0x0409h) - English (United States) 4/10/2004 4:48:26 PM info Version 5.1.6.132 4/10/2004 4:48:26 PM info Title : BlindWrite 5.1.6.132 4/10/2004 4:48:26 PM info ExeName : "C:\Program Files\VSO\BlindWrite5\BW.exe" 4/10/2004 4:48:26 PM info OS : Microsoft Windows XP Personal Service Pack 1 (Build 2600) Thanks for any help you can offer.

[SnoopDixs]

I figured out how to set dma, I placed both options on my secondary ide channel to dma if available. Now for the chipset do you want me to flash my bios with the newest version? I have an asus P4C-800 E-Deluxe.

[chaosmaker]

no, not a new bios, if you don't have that much experience with bios flashing, that is not for a beginner. but look at the asus site for chipset drivers, there will probably be the intel application excellerator and one other.

[SnoopDixs]

I just purchased my computer 2 weeks ago, I do not think I need to update the chipset drivers. How would I find my current version of the chipset drivers? There was no chipset drivers on asus.com, but on intel.com there was two updates: INF Update Utility RAID Software - Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition Both of the driver updates are dated 12/03. Is there anything else I should try or do I need these drivers? Thanks

[SnoopDixs]

I have figured it out. It works when the game cd is placed in my second drive which is the burner. The burner reads the disc then I take out the game cd and place the blank cd in the burner. Any ideas on why it will not allow me to use the cd-rom, my first drive, to read the cd, and then use my burner, the second drive, to burn the cd? Maybe something to do with the hard drive? Thanks for any help

[gomerpyle]

I can not write iso images to cd burner. The error message is as follows: 9/17/2004 1:38:35 PM info Writing completed in 00:29 9/17/2004 1:38:34 PM info Finalize started 9/17/2004 1:38:34 PM error (MMCWriteSector) write Failed at sector -11634[26] after 0 retries : Code 03 73 03 [Medium error, Power calibration fail (CD-burner is dirty)] 9/17/2004 1:38:06 PM info Write started 9/17/2004 1:38:06 PM info Buffer Under-run protection is enabled 9/17/2004 1:38:06 PM info Backup tagged for Autoplay 9/17/2004 1:38:06 PM info DAO PW writing mode selected 9/17/2004 1:38:06 PM info Writing speed requested x16, effective x16 9/17/2004 1:38:06 PM info DAO writing mode preferred 9/17/2004 1:38:06 PM info Writing CD-ROM Disc [NORTONGHOST9_00] - Image Size 470 Mb. 9/17/2004 1:38:06 PM info Writing device : 2:1:0 - _NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A 108B [F] (Ide) 9/17/2004 1:38:01 PM info Imported file format - ISO@2048 (Data CD ISO) 9/17/2004 1:37:54 PM info Using Patin-Couffin driver Version 1.24, Internal revision 24 9/17/2004 1:37:54 PM info ParamStr 0 = "C:\Program Files\VSO\BlindWrite5\BW.exe" 9/17/2004 1:37:54 PM info User default language : 1033 (0x0409h) - English (United States) 9/17/2004 1:37:54 PM info System default language : 1033 (0x0409h) - English (United States) 9/17/2004 1:37:54 PM info Version 5.2.4.138 9/17/2004 1:37:54 PM info ExeName : "C:\Program Files\VSO\BlindWrite5\BW.exe" 9/17/2004 1:37:54 PM info OS : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) I could sure use some help here. Thanks.

[chaosmaker]

You need to try some different media.

[gomerpyle]

I am using Memorex CD-R 700Mb 52x. I thought that Memorex as a good product???

[Neuromancer]

I want to burn an image of a game (Athens 2004) but got the following error log: 2004-10-30 22:03:29 info Writing completed in 02:02 2004-10-30 22:03:24 info Finalize started 2004-10-30 22:03:24 error (MMCWriteSector) write Failed at sector 65264[16] after 0 retries : Code 05 21 02 [Illegal request, Invalid address for Write] 2004-10-30 22:01:27 info Write started 2004-10-30 22:01:27 info Buffer Under-run protection is enabled 2004-10-30 22:01:27 info Media topology will be embedded in Autoplay 2004-10-30 22:01:27 info Backup tagged for Autoplay 2004-10-30 22:01:26 info Writing speed requested x2,0, effective x2,0 2004-10-30 22:01:26 info Media ID : SONY000000U9 2004-10-30 22:01:26 info Writing DVD-ROM Disc [ATHENS2004] - Image Size 1,78 Gb. 2004-10-30 22:01:26 info Writing device : 1:1:0 - _NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A 1.0B [G] (Ide) 2004-10-30 22:01:16 info BWT 5 file contains topology data: Quality 100% 2004-10-30 21:59:30 info Loaded copy profile Automatic 2004-10-30 21:59:27 info Loaded read profile Automatic 2004-10-30 21:59:22 info Using Patin-Couffin driver Version 1.24, Internal revision 24 2004-10-30 21:59:22 info Autoplay driver active. Version 6 2004-10-30 21:59:22 info ParamStr 0 = "E:\Program\VSO\BlindWrite5\BW.exe" 2004-10-30 21:59:22 info User default language : 1053 (0x041Dh) - Swedish 2004-10-30 21:59:22 info System default language : 1053 (0x041Dh) - Swedish 2004-10-30 21:59:22 info Version 5.2.5.138 2004-10-30 21:59:22 info ExeName : "E:\Program\VSO\BlindWrite5\BW.exe" 2004-10-30 21:59:22 info OS : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) As media I use a Sony DVD-RW in a NEC-1300A burner with the latest firmware installed. Any ideas of what could be the problem and what could fix it?

[XYLAMON]

Its a great program 5.2.9. Just purchased it I can burn anything I tried except KOTOR 1. I use BW Tweak and settings to auto. It would be nice to be able to tweak it much more. Like nibble and all the in depth settings. Thanks.

[jjay88]

Hi Im going to save you the pain I've suffered: Throw away(nearest trash can) your lg GCR-8523B cd-rom. No matter what setting you have in window it will always be in pio 4 mode. It can not do anything else(eg. udma 33/mb). The bios will read it as pio 4 because that is all the drive can do. Hence this cd-rom will use 40% cpu at 8x speed(because it uses pio 4). It fine if your only copying to your HD, but on-the-fly copying past 4x: coster maker. to much time with lg GCR-8523B, J

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