[RESOLVED] Yamaha 2100E (IDE)

[mloprest]

Hardware:
Motherboard Asus A7V (bios 1006, via 4in1 4.28v)
AMD Athlon 800 MHz
HD 40 GB Maxtor ATA100
SB Live 1024
ATI Rage Fury Pro 32 MB
CDROM Creative 52X on Primary-Master (DMA)
DVDROM Pioneer A103 on Primary-Slave (DMA)
CDRW Yamaha on Secondary-Slave (PIO)

Software:
Win2K Professional (SP1) & Win98SE
Ahead Nero 5.0.4.4

I just replaced my old, but working fine, cd writer Yamaha 4416E (IDE) with a new Yamaha 2100E (IDE too).

Booted on Win2K, the system configured itself for the new device found, restarted the PC and all seemed worked fine, no conflict in Control Panel.

I put a CD (data or music is the same) on the writer to create an image on HD, the CDRW started reading but soon paused reading data (at about 5%), the LED indicating the HD activity is on for 1 or 2 minutes then the writer spins againg to read other data on CD but pauses again after a few seconds, and so on ....

I tried with both DMA and PIO options on CDRW but nothing changed, I tried also on Win98SE but the same problem occurs.

The write feature of the 2100E is working fine, because if I create the CD Image on HD with the Creative CDROM I am able to burn it with the writer at 12X in 6 minutes (700MB).

Thanks for any suggestions you might have

Max

[DonJ]

Hi,

You say it's a new 2100E. I found the latest firmware updates here:

http://www.yamaha.com/ycaservice/group001/fgrop001.htm

It almost looks like there is a different firmware version for each OS you're running...might be something worth checking into.

Also, some other good info by following the links for your particular model number.

Hope this helps out.

Good Luck!
DonJ


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[This message has been edited by DonJ (edited March 09, 2001).]

[Sowulo]

I had this exact error with this drive on one of my son's systems. We solved it completely by upgrading from Easy CD Creator Deluxe 4 to version 5.

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[TRICKPLAYER]

I recently itted a scsi yamaha 16 x 10 x 40
and experienced problems with Nero, cured it
by upgrading to latest version, also adaptec 4.2 did'nt see it, when I applied latest update, 4.3 it was fine http://www.roxio.com/en/support/winupdates.html

[mloprest]

I now think I have problems with the ATA100 HD on the promise controller (Asus A7V), because I tried the CDRW on my Office PC (With Win2K) with a normal HD (no ATA100) and the cd writer reads data without any problem.

The next week-end I will try to connect the HD on the IDE BUS and see if it works.

Thanks