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  • Plexwriter 8432/A problems

    Hi, you guys never fail to sort my problems
    out so could you read my recent email to
    plextor support and confirm the guy is right!
    Ie. to de-install my AMD drivers (I think by that he means the AMD Bus Master Drivers
    (1.22 RC). My CDRW drive gives me nothing but
    grief:

    Thanks.


    Dear sir,

    Please uninstall the AMD drivers and install the standard drivers in
    Windows.

    Kind regards


    Koen De Backer
    Support engineer

    Plextor Europe
    Excelsiorlaan 9
    1910 Zaventem
    BELGIUM
    Tel : 00 32 27 18 03 99
    Fax: 00 32 27 18 03 90
    www.PLEXTOR.be

    PLEASE ATTACH ALL PREVIOUS MAILS



    -----Original Message-----
    From: Jarrod Elmes [mailto:jarrod@elmes100.fsnet.co.uk]
    Sent: maandag 24 juli 2000 11:44
    To: feedback@plextor.be
    Subject: Plexwriter 8432/A / PacketCD problems


    Mr Jarrod Elmes
    93 Duncan Road
    Southsea
    Portsmouth
    Hants
    PO5 2QX

    jarrod@elmes100.fsnet.co.uk <mailto:jarrod@elmes100.fsnet.co.uk>



    RE: Packet CD problems using Plexwriter 8432/A drive.

    Hi please can you help me, I am fed up with my Plexwriter 8432/A drive,
    with regards to using PacketCD.

    - Most of the time explorer will just hang (hourglassed) if I insert a packet CD or
    worse both my CD devices won't even appear
    in MyComputer! (I have a Samsung 10x DVD ROM drive sharing the secondary IDE as a slave). Note: If no packet CD is in the plexwriter drive then the devices will appear!

    - Using the compressed option is even more unreliable, it takes endless reboots and
    F5/refreshes to make Windows recongnise there's even a disk inserted.
    Note: Having insert notifcation on or off makes no difference to my problems.

    - After inserting a new blank disk, the format disk option won't appear 99%
    of the time, so I have to manually run the CeQuadrat format CD application.

    - Before a disk is successfully recognised as a packet CD, the player seems to whire
    endlessly and my PC is completely locked out (hourglassed) during the process which
    is frustrating. If I try to abort by pressing the eject button, I get 'blue screened'
    by Windows and have to reboot.

    I have the latest firmware installed on the drive (1.07) and the latest drivers CeQuadrat
    drivers installed.

    Can you tell me if this is the norm and that CeQuadrat packet CD is just 'rubbish' or could there be a drive fault or may I have a problem with my PC configuration?


    Here is some info...

    PC Spec
    _____________________________________________
    750 Athlon, MSI 6167
    256 MB 100Mhz Ram
    Matrox G400 Max DH 32MB
    30GB Seagate Barracuda UDMA66 + 22GB IBM UDMA 66 (On primary channel)
    Samsung DVD/CD 10/32X (Secondary slave)
    Plexwriter 8432/A (Primary slave)
    Hauppauge WinTV/Radio
    Soundblaster Platinum Live
    Iiyama 22" VisionMaster Pro
    Windows 98 SE.
    There are no IRQ conflicts.


    Drivers:
    PacketCD 3.00.209
    Firmware 1.07.

    I have run your utilities, here is the text:

    CDRInfo:
    _____________________________________________

    MSF: 74:45:00
    LBA: 336375
    Manufacturer: Ritek (type )
    Media Code: 97m31s01f

    Plextor Info Utility V1.06
    Copyright (C) 1999 Plextor SA/NV
    24 July 2000
    _____________________________________________

    Software information
    _____________________________________________
    Operating system : Windows 98 V4.10.2222 A
    ASPI Manager : WNASPI32.DLL version 4.60 (1021)
    Description : ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL (Adaptec)
    _____________________________________________
    Hardware information
    _____________________________________________
    Host Adapter: 0 Adapter Type: amdeide Maximum # Targets: 8
    Primary Bus Master IDE controller

    Driver : AMD IDE Miniport Driver (AMD Corporation)
    File location : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\iosubsys\amdeide.mpd
    File version : 1.22 RC

    ID 0: ST330630 A V3.12

    ID 1: IBM-DJNA -372200 VJ71O
    _____________________________________________

    Host Adapter: 1 Adapter Type: amdeide Maximum # Targets: 8
    AMD-756 Bus Master IDE Controller V1.22 RC

    Driver : AMD IDE Miniport Driver (AMD Corporation)
    File location : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\iosubsys\amdeide.mpd
    File version : 1.22 RC

    ID 0 (F : PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W8432T V1.07 (S/N:186131)
    Read speed: 14-32 X CAV, Jumper Settings: 001
    Auto Insert Notification: yes, DMA: yes
    PacketCD (unfinalized)

    ID 1: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-606F V1.2

  • #2
    Can't be of much help except to say that I have used my PXW8432T Atapi with 4in1v22 and 23 without too much problems as long as DMA is unchecked for the burner in Device Manager. DirectCD 3.01(d) and EzCD Creator Deluxe 4.02(c) work fine. The only problem with the drive is that it won't audiocapture with PM2000 past wherever it thinks thae CD stops on overburned CDs. CDPlayer plays them ok. I'll have to check the firmware when I go home, but it is the one that supports RAW writing (CloneCD)
    [size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
    Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
    Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
    Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
    Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB

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    • #3
      Ah. My DMA is checked! I'll try that.
      PS. I have nero and it works fine, it's just the crappy PacketCD seems like a pile to me.

      Going back to my original question, should I de-install the AMD drivers?

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      • #4
        I do not see why you should. I have currently 4in1 v23 installed and DMA is unchecked and Ultra DMA disabled in the bios (for the burner only) Oh I have 1.07 firmware as well
        [size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
        Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
        Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
        Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
        Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB

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