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To: R Jennings who wrote (17368)	3/7/2001 7:00:06 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

SCSI or IDE? Brand?

To: R Jennings who wrote (17368)	3/7/2001 7:10:56 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

I use the same software, I have a HP CD-Writer 9200i SCSI CDRW, so I searched their site and this is what I found on buffer underruns (I have never had any) hp.com

To: R Jennings who wrote (17368)	3/7/2001 10:48:55 PM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

"gals I have a problem with a cdr. I can read and write a cdrw but I recieve buffer underruns and address out of range error when I use a CDR. Any ideas?." One, the brand of CDR does matter. Some brands just don't work well with some writers. But there's no list of what combos don't work that I know of. Sony CDRs don't work well in my writer, but Ricohs are great. ( It's a Ricoh drive, surprise, surprise ) Are you copying a data CD? If so, does it help to copy first to your harddrive and then write to CDR? Two CDR resources that I've found useful : cdrom-guide.com cdrfaq.org

To: R Jennings who wrote (17368)	3/8/2001 9:23:46 AM
From: who cares?	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Rob, I used to have a parallel port CDR along with a slow hard drive and it was all real fussy. I had to defrag the hard drive before doing the burns, not use the computer while it was working, not have a screen saver or anything else with the hard drive going on. After a while even that didn't help, turns out the 7200 series HP burner I had was notorious for failing after about a year of life, whether used a lot or not. It would still read and write to the CDR, but there's a seperate laser that did the burning and it would start in the wrong place. You could look at the CDR and see it, the coasters would all start a couple of mm's further out on the disc than they should, and then they'd burn 1/2-3/4 of an inch and quit. I realize that the drive I had wasn't made by HP, Phillips I think, but I will never buy another POS HP burner, or computer again, total garbage. I guess one way to see if it's the burner or the hard drive access is whether it only fails during the actual burn and not the test.