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CD-R burning w/Sony DRU-500A DVD+/-R(W) **cross-post**

Postby dmbfan36_23 on Thu Nov 07, 2002 1:41 pm

I picked up a DRU-500A last weekend and I'm having no luck with CD-R burning right now....... I keep getting Power Calibration Errors in Nero 5.5.9.17.... :(

Imation 32x 80min CD-R :: 3 attempts @ 24x - 3 failures; 1 attempt @ 20x - 1 failure.

Phillips 40x 80min CD-R :: 2 attempts @ 24x - 2 failures; 1 attempt @ 20x - 1 success

Sony 32x 80min CD-R :: 2 attempts @ 24x - 2 failures

Has anyone had any luck @ 24x with this drive?? What does it mean when I get a Pow. Cal. Error?? Simulation burns work fine.... The drive always dumps out during the lead-in... it takes over a minute and then dies.... it doesn't even appear to write anything to the disc, although on 1 of the Sony's I saw a VERY think line at what appears to be the outside of the TOC section of the disc.....
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Re: CD-R burning w/Sony DRU-500A DVD+/-R(W) **cross-post**

Postby VEFF on Thu Nov 07, 2002 2:17 pm

dmbfan36_23 wrote:I picked up a DRU-500A last weekend and I'm having no luck with CD-R burning right now....... I keep getting Power Calibration Errors in Nero 5.5.9.17.... :(

Imation 32x 80min CD-R :: 3 attempts @ 24x - 3 failures; 1 attempt @ 20x - 1 failure.

Phillips 40x 80min CD-R :: 2 attempts @ 24x - 2 failures; 1 attempt @ 20x - 1 success

Sony 32x 80min CD-R :: 2 attempts @ 24x - 2 failures

Has anyone had any luck @ 24x with this drive?? What does it mean when I get a Pow. Cal. Error?? Simulation burns work fine.... The drive always dumps out during the lead-in... it takes over a minute and then dies.... it doesn't even appear to write anything to the disc, although on 1 of the Sony's I saw a VERY think line at what appears to be the outside of the TOC section of the disc.....


Try different burning software, just to make sure it isn't Nero.
Otherwise you might go crazy trying different media.

I personally have only burned DVD-Rs with it, so I can't provide you with any specific details on CD-R burning with the drive, sorry.
Burners only:
Pioneer DVR-115D
Pioneer DVR-111D
Plextor PX-716A TLA0304
Plextor PX-716A same TLA

LiteOn 52246S 52X CD-RW
LiteOn 52246S (another)
LiteOn 52327S 52X CD-RW
TDK 40X USB 2.0 CD-RW
TEAC CD-W540E 40X CD-RW
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Re: CD-R burning w/Sony DRU-500A DVD+/-R(W) **cross-post**

Postby shah on Thu Nov 07, 2002 5:50 pm

dmbfan36_23 wrote:I picked up a DRU-500A last weekend and I'm having no luck with CD-R burning right now....... I keep getting Power Calibration Errors in Nero 5.5.9.17.... :(

Imation 32x 80min CD-R :: 3 attempts @ 24x - 3 failures; 1 attempt @ 20x - 1 failure.

Phillips 40x 80min CD-R :: 2 attempts @ 24x - 2 failures; 1 attempt @ 20x - 1 success

Sony 32x 80min CD-R :: 2 attempts @ 24x - 2 failures

Has anyone had any luck @ 24x with this drive?? What does it mean when I get a Pow. Cal. Error?? Simulation burns work fine.... The drive always dumps out during the lead-in... it takes over a minute and then dies.... it doesn't even appear to write anything to the disc, although on 1 of the Sony's I saw a VERY think line at what appears to be the outside of the TOC section of the disc.....



The same thing happened to me as well. I was burning 48x Imation cd-r with Disk-At-Once write method and got the power calibration error thingy. Just change your write method to Disk-At-Once/96 and it should work fine.
My imation cd-r burned at 24x.

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Re: CD-R burning w/Sony DRU-500A DVD+/-R(W) **cross-post**

Postby dmbfan36_23 on Thu Nov 07, 2002 6:02 pm

shah wrote:thingy. Just change your write method to Disk-At-Once/96 and it should work fine.


What's the difference between Disc-At-Once and Disc-At-Once/96?
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Postby gianniz on Fri Nov 08, 2002 12:38 am

by any chance you are using third party ide driver? like via ide etc? if so you gotta goback to default microsoft driver.. this solved all my problem.
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Re: CD-R burning w/Sony DRU-500A DVD+/-R(W) **cross-post**

Postby cfitz on Fri Nov 08, 2002 1:24 am

dmbfan36_23 wrote:
shah wrote:thingy. Just change your write method to Disk-At-Once/96 and it should work fine.


What's the difference between Disc-At-Once and Disc-At-Once/96?

DAO-96 means that the full 2352 bytes of data in each CD sector are written directly as presented by the burning program, rather than the regular way of writing MODE-1 data discs where only the 2048 actual bytes are supplied by the program and the remaining 304 bytes of CRC, addressing, etc are supplied by the drive itself. DAO-96 also allows the burning program to write 96 bytes of subcode channel data with each sector. DAO-96 is used mainly for defeating copy protection, although it also has usage in creating some of the more esoteric CD formats.

In general, writing in DAO-96 should be avoided because it can lead to extra errors on the disc. It shouldn't have anything to do with power calibration, so I don't know why writing in DAO-96 mode seems to have cured your error.

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Postby shah on Fri Nov 08, 2002 1:46 am

I have no idea why either. But using DAO-96 seems to keep me from getting the calibration error. Maybe there is a bug in this Nero version (.17) that we should let Ahead know of.

Btw the audio cds I burnt using DAO-96 played just fine.

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