[RESOLVED] Problems reading discs burned on CD-R

[Elvis Incognito]

After MUCH trial and error I've determined that FACTORY discs read without problem, but discs burned on CD-R can only be read when the planets are lined up just right.

Same discs work fine on any other machine... this machine wants to start up CDPlayer applet.

DETAILS:
OS: Win95 OSR2 (4.00.950B)
CD Drive: Creative 12X IDE (Seen by OS as "Mitsumi FX120T !B")
Device Manager reports no problems.

UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS AT CORRECTION:
Removed CD (in Dev.Mgr.), reinstalled
Reinstalled OS
Removed Sound Card
Different RAM
Different IDC cable
Ran drive in MS-DOS mode (via SBIDE.SYS+MSCDEX)- with and without SMARTDRV.

Don't have another drive to test with...
Drive worked fine previously in different system.

PLEASE HELP!!!

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Thankya... thankyaveramuch.

[bdunn]

Have you tried going into the CD properties and turning off DMA. This might work. Also try a different brand of CDRs some drives are finicky.

[ReBoot]

Your Creative 12x is very fussy. All creatives seeem to be this way except the 32x and up.
A newer CD ROM will help, unless you are happy hitting the retry button 50+ times.

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[Robert J Smith]

I have had the same problem with CDs cut on a
sony CDR, older CD-rom drives slower than 24x
can not read the CD or can only see some of the files, I always bring a 32x drive with
me just in case.I have used multisession and
packet writing software both have the same results

[This message has been edited by Robert J Smith (edited April 24, 1999).]

[clauded]

hi,all cretive lab cdr ihave seen are fussy about reading burned cd,and that includes the 32xi don`t recommend them to customers too many come backstoo many people use pirated software and then they come back cause the cdr, won`t read copied cd,
cheers Clauded