Thanks Stephen ! - Comment interspersed below:-

Stephen Worthington wrote:

> ** Reply to message from Ed Durrant  on Sat,
> 20 Nov 2004 13:11:46 +1100
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >   Has anyone recently had problems with DVD Media using this
> > combination of hardware and software.
> >
>
> I have a Pioneer DVR-107D which I think is fairly similar.  However, it
> is on my Win2k box.  To keep up with the media that is coming out, I
> have to make sure to update with the latest firmware all the time,
> otherwise the burner may not correctly recognise the media.  So I would
> suggest that you check the Pioneer site for an update.  My last batch
> of Princo DVD-Rs came with a warning on the side of the cake box that
> an update was required to use them with DVR-A03/103/A04/104 drives.
>

   Well it says exactly that on my pack aswell !  I have a DVR-105 running
version 1.33 of the firmware. I went to the Pioneer site and this models
firmware hasn't been updated recently, it seems only the newer (faster)
drives have had updates. The latest firmware is 1.33b - which is likely to
be the same as what I have already loaded, however I have downloaded it and
will try to apply it.


>
> I have been been using Laser DVD-R and +R and Princo DVD-R disks, and
> have only ever had 4 bad burns out of over 200 so far.  Three of those
> were from my current batch of Laser DVD+Rs, so I will probably not be
> getting them again.  Having 1 out of 10 with bad burns is way above
> what I would expect.  So, is your hardware setup right?  Are you using
> DMA on the DVR-105?  The fastest DMA mode is recommended.  Is it the
> master drive on that IDE port (as is recommended in the Pioneer
> installation instructions)?  Does DVDDAO run at real-time priority, so
> that it can service the burn fast enough?
>

   The DVD-RW is connected as the master device on the second IDE channel.
It was set to auto in the BIOS, I have now not set this to PIO4 and on
loading it reports DNA4/PIO4.

  How do I set "real-time priority" is that the --priority setting ? in
which case what should I set the class and delta settings to ? (default is
3,0).

>

Thanks

Cheers/2

Ed.

>



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