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Hi all,
I know that in order to get the Pioneer DVR-A04 to write at 2X, you're supposed to use "approved" media. I'd figure though that if the drive recognizes the disc as a 2X disc, it should work, right?
Here's my situation... I bought the drive back in June/July, but never really tested the 2X capabilities at that time. I tried it once, but figured it was bad media (this was with the 1.20 firmware).
Now that I've updated to 1.32, a lot more brands of media are recognized as 2X, but I can't seem to record to any of them at 2X - not even the Pioneer DVD-R disc that came with the unit.
Burning at 1X is fine with many types of media, but I can't seem to get 2X to work no matter what. I've tried moving the drive onto it's own channel, no dice.
Here's what happens... I use Nero, and it writes successfully (no errors reported, the buffer is alway 95+%), and then on the verification stage, the disc fails close to the end. It's always close to the end, within the last 25% or so (it seems to vary from disc to disc).
Here's my setup:
AMD Athlon 1400 (not overclocked)
Iwill KK266-R motherboard (onboard AMI RAID controller is disabled because I was having issues with it)
1GB of RAM
Lots of hard drive space (500+ GB)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card
Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 PCI IDE card (I've got six hard drives in this system)
530W power supply (Enermax)
Windows 2000
The A04 is secondary slave, a Pioneer DVD-ROM is the primary.
A04 is running on UDMA33 (according to BIOS and Windows)
I've tried putting the drive as the secondary master, with only the DVD-R on that channel, and still the same results.
Has anybody else experienced this problem? Simple media problem, or hardware problem, and the drive has to go back to Pioneer?
Thanks for any help that you might have.
-- Joe
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