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crazyfied
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_ 		18. December 2003 @ 18:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well a friend of mine decided to upgrade his dvd burner and he gave me the pioneer a03. I had it for a month and everything was burning fine. Then i rebooted once and tried to burn a dvd with varioous programs such as recordnow, nero and 120%. I would select what i want to burn then it looks like its going to start burning then the icon for burning goes dim as where i cant click it. I go to my computer and check my dvdr drive. I saw that both my cdrw and my dvdrw disappear. I tried different ide cable as well. Any idea on how to fix this problem?

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jonny
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drchips
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_ 		19. December 2003 @ 04:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hiya crazyfied,

Try the following;

Disable the cdrw (remove IDE & power)
Set A03 to be master
Remove & replace IDE & power for A03
Check that the A03 is set for DMA.
Test.

I have seen a similar problem with a 104, where re-plugging the cables did the trick (suspect bad connection).

BTW, if at all possible, it is always A Good Idea(tm) to have an optical WRITER as a master on its own channel.

If the above works, set cdrw as slave, connect & test again.

It may be a s/w prob, but let's try h/w first.

If you change too many variables at a time, how do you know what was the correct change?

As the old master carpenter said "measure TWICE and cut ONCE".

Have Fun...
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herbsman
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_ 		19. December 2003 @ 05:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   

I have my 104 on MASTER & DMA on ... never had a problem. (last 2+yrs)
When my bro in law went to install way back I seem remember that it was installed but had to come back out again as Nero was dropping lead-in at the start of a burn. My previous Ricoh CD-RW was MASTER , once they were swapped around so Pioneer 104 was as MASTER - all was cool.

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