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I seem to have a mental block when it comes to Hardware and hope someone
could help.

I have a PC with Windows98SE and a CD Writer. It meets all my
requirements apart fom the fact I cannot get the CD Writer to work
anymore. The device (from System Properties) is a MATSHITA CD-RW CW-7586

(I await the flames for the MAT-****-A)

I am using the software BurnatOnce (http://www.burnatonce.com/). When I
got the last CD to write it took a few tries and then it worked. My main
issue is I get the error "Device is not ready". I have got this error in
NERO also so believe it is a device issue until it times out.

I can read from a CD in the drive so I know the PC can access it.

How shold I troubleshoot this problem.


GJ

Nikki <> wrote:

: I seem to have a mental block when it comes to Hardware and hope someone
: could help.
:
: I have a PC with Windows98SE and a CD Writer. It meets all my
: requirements apart fom the fact I cannot get the CD Writer to work
: anymore. The device (from System Properties) is a MATSHITA CD-RW CW-7586
:
: (I await the flames for the MAT-****-A)
:
: I am using the software BurnatOnce (http://www.burnatonce.com/). When I
: got the last CD to write it took a few tries and then it worked. My main
: issue is I get the error "Device is not ready". I have got this error in
: NERO also so believe it is a device issue until it times out.
:
: I can read from a CD in the drive so I know the PC can access it.
:
: How shold I troubleshoot this problem.
:
:
: GJ

First, Google can be your friend;- just searching "CW-7586" gets some useful
info in the first few hits. Feurio has it as an 8x CDR, 6x CDRW burner that
will burn 80 min disks (but may need a firmware upgrade*) but not 90 mins.

*A few hits down the Google results there are links to firmware upgrades too.
I would read up on them, and how to do them, **very carefully**, before
attempting to do one, *if* you come to the conclusion you need to, on study.

I'm only sympathising here because I have spent hours recently over the last
few days and earlier struggling to get an old 2x Wearnes 622 to burn with 98SE
and Nero ... it's still burning coasters even on standard 650MB 74 min disks.

One of the noticeable things with mine is that it will not read even 80 min
discs let alone 90 and certainly won't write to them - putting in such a disc
will generate a "Device not ready" message. You don't say what media you used,
but there seems to me a good chance that they might be incompatible ...

Also, I've had to do quite a bit of research through the Nero help files (and
am glad I downloaded all their "error messages" detailed web pages earlier,
because all I can find now online are rather simplified FAQ's - and have
become aware of the problems that can be created by lingering drivers from
other, previous burning software installations - not only Adaptec's, but also
the burning compnents of Window Media Player 9, if it was installed... and
other finicky details ... like Nero doesn't work well with my faster Intel PC,
and its "Application Accelerator" motherboard software, etc etc.

I only mention all this because it has become apparent to me that it can be
hard to get older burners working, particularly since it is hard to find older
blank CDR's that are geared for slower machines ... I notice Jaycar have some.

Actually, now looking at your BurnatOnce link, perhaps I might give it a go.

Anyway, I'd suggest only trying out one type of burning software at a time,
removing any others, and studying up, if possible, on what drivers they have
left behind, and if necessary removing them by hand (typically according to
Nero various .VXD files are left in the /WINDOWS/SYSTEM/IOSUBSYS dir) or
rather renaming them... hopefully it won't get that complicated for you! :=})

Possibly the latest bargain blanks you bought are too "fast" for the drive -
the "tracks" are finer on the latest CDR's for fast burners, and the old
drives just can't read them. If so, look out for 80 min or even 74 min media.

Hope that helps a little ... maybe others have more experience with the
software, and/or even the ahem Matushita (Panasonic) CW-7586 ...

It might help to post what the PC (hardware) is that all this is in, too.
Not that I can guarantee to be of much more help

RdM
<off to look at burnatonce>

In article <>,
says...

> I'm only sympathising here because I have spent hours recently over the last
> few days and earlier struggling to get an old 2x Wearnes 622 to burn with 98SE
> and Nero ... it's still burning coasters even on standard 650MB 74 min disks.

Why waste time with old junk when you can get a new drive for $69

"Patrick Dunford" <> wrote in message
news:. nz...
> In article <>,
> says...
>
> > I'm only sympathising here because I have spent hours recently over the
last
> > few days and earlier struggling to get an old 2x Wearnes 622 to burn
with 98SE
> > and Nero ... it's still burning coasters even on standard 650MB 74 min
disks.
>
> Why waste time with old junk when you can get a new drive for $69
>

Old junk? In another thread you are moaning about the speed of a Cel 500
LoL

In article <caahbu$i6k$>, the_rider_@GOAWAYhotmail.com
says...
>
> "Patrick Dunford" <> wrote in message
> news:. nz...
> > In article <>,
> > says...
> >
> > > I'm only sympathising here because I have spent hours recently over the
> last
> > > few days and earlier struggling to get an old 2x Wearnes 622 to burn
> with 98SE
> > > and Nero ... it's still burning coasters even on standard 650MB 74 min
> disks.
> >
> > Why waste time with old junk when you can get a new drive for $69
> >
>
> Old junk? In another thread you are moaning about the speed of a Cel 500
> LoL

That computer is just one I have to work with, it isn't mine.

And your refrain, Patrick Dunford, was expressed thusly, in true camel livery:

: In article <>,
: says...
:
: > I'm only sympathising here because I have spent hours recently over the last
: > few days and earlier struggling to get an old 2x Wearnes 622 to burn with 98SE
: > and Nero ... it's still burning coasters even on standard 650MB 74 min disks.
:
: Why waste time with old junk when you can get a new drive for $69

Simple:

I can't afford it.

Patrick Dunford regrained:

: In article <>,
: says...
:
: > I'm only sympathising here because I have spent hours recently over the last
: > few days and earlier struggling to get an old 2x Wearnes 622 to burn with 98SE
: > and Nero ... it's still burning coasters even on standard 650MB 74 min disks.
:
: Why waste time with old junk when you can get a new drive for $69

O well, it was a gift;- it is still also my only CDR burner; it has worked
before, for me,- in fact I was advised in earlier troubles that it had worked
with a 486 - and these are just new problems, associated with new hardware and
installed software;- so it's actually been an extremely inteeresting learning
curve for me;- and I just happened to have sat down with a porter and been
feeling giving and expansive at the time I attempted to catch up with the news

I find the intellectual and emotional - patient application in frustration -
challenges enlivening and rewarding enough in the end - and it is all I have.

How big is the eye in your needle?

In article <>,
says...
> And your refrain, Patrick Dunford, was expressed thusly, in true camel livery:
>
> : In article <>,
> : says...
> :
> : > I'm only sympathising here because I have spent hours recently over the last
> : > few days and earlier struggling to get an old 2x Wearnes 622 to burn with 98SE
> : > and Nero ... it's still burning coasters even on standard 650MB 74 min disks.
> :
> : Why waste time with old junk when you can get a new drive for $69
>
> Simple:
>
> I can't afford it.
>
How much of your own time have you wasted already ? How much do you
value your time in $/hour ?

In article <>,
says...
> Patrick Dunford regrained:
>
> : In article <>,
> : says...
> :
> : > I'm only sympathising here because I have spent hours recently over the last
> : > few days and earlier struggling to get an old 2x Wearnes 622 to burn with 98SE
> : > and Nero ... it's still burning coasters even on standard 650MB 74 min disks.
> :
> : Why waste time with old junk when you can get a new drive for $69
>
> O well, it was a gift;- it is still also my only CDR burner; it has worked
> before, for me,- in fact I was advised in earlier troubles that it had worked
> with a 486 - and these are just new problems, associated with new hardware and
> installed software;- so it's actually been an extremely inteeresting learning
> curve for me;- and I just happened to have sat down with a porter and been
> feeling giving and expansive at the time I attempted to catch up with the news
>
> I find the intellectual and emotional - patient application in frustration -
> challenges enlivening and rewarding enough in the end - and it is all I have.
>
> How big is the eye in your needle?

Whatever you say, I have a limited budget, but I have only so much
patience. My burner is sitting in a pentium 133 running Linux. So the
computer that it sits in cost me nothing, so in the end to set up a CD
burning capability cost me all of $69, including the computer it sits in.