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I have been burning DVD's for a while now, and here are my experience's with Nero Burning Rom (currently using 6.6.0.15).
Firstly if you get a Power Calibration Error message this can happen with any make of drive + any firmware and any brand of disc.
It doesn't mean your DVD lazer is dirty as it can happen with a brand new drive.
I found I got a power callibration error message every time I tried to burn a disc when I had a brand new Pioneer 107 in an external USB2 enclosure (I also put the same drive inside the PC, and still got error's but not as often).
I have been searching on the net and found a couple of "solutions"
I have a disc burning from the hard drive right now so wonder if it will work by the time I have finnished writing this post?
Here's my findings:
To Avoid "Power Calibration Error" messages:
Go to Computer Management> Services and turn off IMAPI CD-Burning COM service "Startup Type": Dissabled
In Nero. Change Ultra Buffer Size from automatic to Manual (max size is 80Mb).
Bugger!!! BURN PROCESS FAILED. (Philips 4.7GB DVD-R 1-16x)
So those two solutions above make no difference at all. (currently using Pioneer 108 with latest 1.20 firmware.
I have also had one of those tower duplicator cases and used "on the fly" to copy DVD's, but ended up with more coaster's than working discs (even at low speeds). Tried just about every brand of media. So hoping when I get a new DVD reader Asus DVD-E616A that will make things better.
The amount of memory & processor speed does not affect burning performance either. I now have 3.2Ghz processor and 2.5Gig of Ram and still get the same burning problems.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 11. January 2006 @ 12:48
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