Jerry Prather wrote:
> Hi Folks:
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> I have a Plextor 740 DVD/CD writer and RSJ 6.0.  I can burn a CD
> without a problem using RSJ.  I can play back CDs with RSJ.  I
> cannot write a data DVD.  I've doubled the cache and slowed the
> speed to 1X, and it still fails.  It fails in a rather
> spectacular fashion: the DVD blank attaches, I start the process
> with the xcopy command, the computer reports that it is reading
> the files, the light on the front of the burner flashes, and
> then after a while everything comes to a screeching halt -- the
> system has completely frozen up.  This is a hard freeze which
> requires a power switch cycle and a new boot.  As a result,
> there are no error logs to be had (that I can find, at least).
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> I've reported this problem before and RSJ hasn't been able to
> help.  Someone suggested that the power supply might be
> inadequate.  This made sense, so I upgraded the power supply
> from 300 W to 375 Watts.  It made no difference.  I then decided
> that the drive itself must be defective, so I went out and
> bought another DVD burner.  It fails in exactly the same fashion
> as the Plextor.
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> Now what?  Could it be that my computer is too slow?  It's an
> Epox 8 board running an Athlon 800 MHz processor with eCS 1.13.=20
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> What is going on when the system freezes?  What is the xcopy
> function trying to do that it all of a sudden can't do?  I was
> counting on the burner to provide me with a backup  function,
> but...
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> All guesses welcome (and actual knowledge doubly so).
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> Thanks,
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> Jerry=20
>
In explicable hangs like this are often caused by conflicts - be it IO=20
address or (more often) IRQ.

Is it possible that you have multiple devices on the same IRQ ? Although=20
modern hardware and eCS have somr plug and play capabilities, the=20
technology still sometimes reverts to "plug and pray" !

The other possibility that comes to mind is a memory problem. I take it=20
you are NOT over clocking the system ?


It'd be good to run a memory test utility for 12 hours + to see if it=20
finds any memory chip errors.

Other than that, I don't think your machine is too slow.

Something else you could try, is using DVDDAO/2 rather than RSJ to write=20
the DVD ISO images - if it completes OK, the problem is with the RSJ=20
software.


Cheers/2

Ed.


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