New dvd burner trouble

Group, the following from a friend... can you provide guidance that I can
pass to her?


just purchased another dvd burner after my last one took a dump on me in 6
months anyway the trouble i am having is my new burner is a sata drive and
it is stuck in pio mode my drive is ASUS DRW-24B1ST on firmware 1.04

all i can figure out by googling is a few guides out there tell u to do this

Do the following:

Run REGEDIT. (Start - Run - Regedit)

Go to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

For each of the subkeys 0000, 0001, 0002, 0003, etc. delete (if present) the
MasterIdDataChecksum and SlaveIdDataChecksum values.

Reboot.

sure that worked to get it to dma 5 and all but it looks up the system when
it trys to read a blank dvd before it is burned i am lost any help would be
appreciated and im running win xp

 

Defective drive ?

Bad cable ?

Bad chipset interface on motherboard ?

If the SATA drive has data transmission problems, and is getting
CRC errors, then eventually the drive will revert to PIO mode again.

Check the motherboard interface and the cable, by plugging a hard drive
into it, and see if the hard drive has similar problems (drops to PIO
mode).

A SATA cable should not be bent or kinked. The cable should be smooth and
not bent into a tight radius turn. (Don't coil it up, or wrap twist ties
around the cabling. Leave it free to assume its own shape.) If the cable
is kinked, it can throw off the impedance value of the cable. I've run into
people, who got an improvement, when they tried another cable.

*******

A workaround, is to host the drive using a USB2 to SATA adapter. USB2 has
sufficient bandwidth to handle a DVD burn operation (I do this all the time).
If the drive really has a bad SATA interface on it, it's still going to
suck at burning stuff. But if it was a motherboard problem, it's possible
the USB2 to SATA would give you a workable solution. But I'd sooner just
fix the original problem - this is only fun to try as an experiment, if
you happen to own a USB2 to SATA adapter already.

Paul

 

I passed your message, Paul. Thank you!

 

She replies:
nope i dont own a usb2 to sata adapter. I used to have a HP 1270 burner it
was a sata as well did the same thing as this one so i got a IDE drive and
had no probs. Now i go to frys electronics and they no longer carry IDE
drives big letdown. the sata cable is new not kinked or anything but its the
sata cable that came with the drive i dont know if theres a differance to
getting one free with the drive or if a 10 dollar one at frys will make an
improvement i dunno. i dont have a sata hdd to see if its just the sata
interface on the motherboard but everything else like my second dvd burner
is on an IDE as well as my 2 other hdd's all are running in DMA mode and has
no conflicts with the sata burner. i might just have to suck it up and spend
the 20 bucks to try the usb2 to sata solution maybe its just a pos sata
interface on the motherboard which wouldnt surprise me thanks for the tips

 

In USB2 to SATA solutions, you can get a large 5.25" drive enclosure,
designed for optical drives, with USB2 on the outside, and SATA on the
inside. But this will likely cost a bit more. It's also portable.
Usually, the faceplate pops out, so a tray-load optical drive can work.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817186103

You can also get "portable" USB2 to SATA dongle adapters, which is equivalent
to the previously mentioned enclosure, but without the enclosure mechanicals.
This would allow the optical drive to just sit on the table, and relies
on the metal housing of the drive itself as the "enclosure". This is a
temporary solution.

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter...RMVQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319773896&sr=8-1

*******

For internal solutions, nice and tidy, you can go with this:

http://www.startech.com/HDD/Adapters/25in-and-35in-40-Pin-Male-IDE-to-SATA-Adapter-Converter~IDE2SAT

How that works, is the black SATA part plugs into the back of the drive.
The 40 gold plated pins, are where the computer ribbon cable connects.
This allows a SATA drive to be used with an IDE motherboard. The jumper
plug on this particular device, selects "Master" or "Slave", meaning
you could actually use two adapters and a motherboard ribbon cable, to
support up to two SATA drives.

The downside of the IDE2SAT concept, is not all the chips are
ATAPI compliant. In some cases, there can be problems getting an
optical drive to work. I think I've tested that one here, with
my SATA optical. I used a USB2 to IDE enclosure, a IDE2SAT adapter
plug, and a SATA optical drive, to successfully burn a DVD When
done that way, the assembly is too long for the cover to fit on
the enclosure, so while I was doing that, the enclosure was open
to the air.

So there are plenty of little toys out there, to fix the problem.

Paul