pioneer104 and making coasters problem??

[disastermaster]

I have just purchased a Pioneer 104 dvd/rw and up to now I`ve created three coasters. I have got the latest firmware for the drive and I have disabled DMA ( which made no difference for dvd writing), I`m using Nero 5.5.8.0 and all that i am doing is creating a data cd. The discs are `Datasafe Classic `white label and I`m running win98se. The burning starts ok then at about 2min 45sec Nero throws up a communication error and aborts. I have managed to create an audio cd with this drive ( the first audio cd failed untill I disabled DMA)
I`ve got 60gb primary master 80gb primary slave Liteon cd/rw secondary master and the pioneer secondary slave. The liteon works perfectly at 32X so I cant see it being a bottleneck between primary and secondary, or could it?
I`m running an athlon 1400 and have 256mb ram .I`ve also shut down all background progs when attempting the dvd write.
Any ideas????

TIA Disastermaster.

[Wombat]

Motherboard? Sounds kind of like Via chipset issues, but certainly could be other things.

Full system specs please.

[Taz]

What happens if you try burning at a slower speed?

[UtwigMU]

Win98SE. Try NT based OS.

[Pace]

Watch out with these drives. Pioneer have reported that some/all drives lasers will fail when used on certain media. I *think* it was Slashdot, but be careful when using media - I'm guessing it was the 'other' DVD R format (-R or +R). I'll post again if I can be more accurate

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[K6-III]

There is an updated firmware to correct for that issue.

Make sure that DMA is enabled...

[ayoub_ibrahim]

2 suggestions,
1)update to nero 5.5.9.9( it's a free upgrade from nero)
2)install adaptec ver4.6 aspi layer & not the latest 4.71 which some folk are having trouble with, even though nero has its own!

[Pace]

disastermaster: Update your firmware if you're going to be using the above media (thanks K6-III)

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