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Rlyss · 11-26-2004, 11:41 PM

Last week my dad bought a Pioneer DVD writer (Pioneer DVR AO8XLA) to put in his computer (1.6GHz, Windows XP Pro, 256MB RAM). He has two hard disks on IDE1 on the same ribbon cable, and on IDE2, same ribbon, are the Pioneer DVD and a Samsung writer (both are rewritable). The DVD is master and the CD is the slave and the BIOS has everything in check, everything's fine.

The two writers are conflicting though. When one is unplugged the other works fine on its own. But when both are plugged in and Windows recognizes them as Samsung and Pioneer drives they don't work anymore. When you play an audio CD the sound constantly skips in both drives, and when he puts a data DVD in the drive it takes minutes to read any files and usually only displays the autorun.ini file (only a few KB), but sometimes displays a few more files (like an .ico and a couple of others), everything is incredibly slow and all the files shown are only KBs in size, nothing over 500kb or so. It's a DVD full of video-editing software so the disc isn't faulty, and when the Samsung CD writer is unplugged the DVD works perfectly.

So when only one is plugged in it works fine, but when both are in the music skips, reading files is incredibly slow and the DVD only displays files that are a few KBs in size.

I've looked around for known conflicts with these drives but can't seem to find anything, can anyone help me out?

11-26-2004, 11:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
Rlyss The Pusher Location: Edinburgh	Samsung CD burner conflicting with Pioneer DVD burner Last week my dad bought a Pioneer DVD writer (Pioneer DVR AO8XLA) to put in his computer (1.6GHz, Windows XP Pro, 256MB RAM). He has two hard disks on IDE1 on the same ribbon cable, and on IDE2, same ribbon, are the Pioneer DVD and a Samsung writer (both are rewritable). The DVD is master and the CD is the slave and the BIOS has everything in check, everything's fine. The two writers are conflicting though. When one is unplugged the other works fine on its own. But when both are plugged in and Windows recognizes them as Samsung and Pioneer drives they don't work anymore. When you play an audio CD the sound constantly skips in both drives, and when he puts a data DVD in the drive it takes minutes to read any files and usually only displays the autorun.ini file (only a few KB), but sometimes displays a few more files (like an .ico and a couple of others), everything is incredibly slow and all the files shown are only KBs in size, nothing over 500kb or so. It's a DVD full of video-editing software so the disc isn't faulty, and when the Samsung CD writer is unplugged the DVD works perfectly. So when only one is plugged in it works fine, but when both are in the music skips, reading files is incredibly slow and the DVD only displays files that are a few KBs in size. I've looked around for known conflicts with these drives but can't seem to find anything, can anyone help me out?