[chumfatty]

Hi I have just bought an external caddy holding an NEC 1300 +-DVD burner. My comp (Dell Dimension 4600) has sucessfully recognised the drive and does everything fine except burning. CD's cause my buffer to drop alarmingly (30 - 40%) but they struggle through and burn OK. DVD's initially buffer fine but when the processing begins it drains completly leaving me with another wasted DVD. I am using Nero to burn at the moment. Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[johnwill]

Are your USB ports 1.1 or 2.0 on that Dell? USB 1.1 isn't fast enough to burn DVD's, even at 1x speed.

 

[chumfatty]

it is.

It is usb 2 . I am getting a error in nero saying that it is being iterrupted. How can I tell what it may be?

 

[johnwill]

I don't know, but I'd try Nero's CD Speed Test and see what speed you're really getting, because it has all the symptoms of a USB 1.1 connection.

 

[chumfatty]

Thanks but I am sure

I am sure that it is. If you look at the spec for that dell it comes with usb2 front and back. Do I need to tell it? I just dont know.
The used read buffer goes up no prob and the progress bar goes up to 2%. The recorder buffer should start but instead I get an imediate loss of every thing and an interruption error.
As I said I thought it was all usb2 and the settings would just be so. It must put something on dvd as they are all throw away.
I got a rw+ and it did format it for use as a data disc but I could still burn nothing on it. Same prob.
Thanks for all and any help.

 

[chumfatty]

I forgot to say I also did the speed test and that was ok to.
Still cant burn dvd.

 

[johnwill]

You got me, have you removed the DVD drive from the USB case and connected it directly to your system? That would be an interesting test, maybe you have a bad drive.