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CD-RW Drive

I just installed the TEAC CD-W54E internal IDE CD-RW drive on my WIn98 machine.  I have attempted three cd copies with the Adaptec CD Copier Deluxe that came with the drive and all three have frozen my computer and accomplished nothing. Any suggestions? I'm open to just about anything...
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Make sure you don't have any other processes running.  This is especially true of anti virus programs.  You need to have as little running other than the cd writer software as possible.
Disable the screen-saver too.
(However, this normally causes a data overrun rather than a freeze.)

If you have two IDE busses, it desirable to have the burner and the hard drive on different busses (= ribbon cables).
Can you explain more on the problems?
Close down everything apart from the Adaptec, use Control-Alt-Del, kill em all except Adaptec, explorer & systray.
Now disable the screensaver.

Now burn a CD

If you still have problems, maybe your drive is broken. It's new, get a replacement.

RJ
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I dont think the drive is broken...I am able to view regular cds from it. The drive is connected to my secondary IDE slot and is the sole drive there.  I have ensured that all other programs are ceased before proceeding.  Anything else???
Are you copying from (cd to cd) or (hard drive to cd) - I had problems before trying to take selective (large)files from one cd, and burn onto another CD. I had to copy them to the Hard drive then to the CD. Probably not your problem but thought I'd throw it out there.
Adjusted points to 90
thus far i've tried only cd to cd.  I've tried all different speeds and attempted a test and copy method.  What appears to happen is that as soon as the copying begins the hard drive and cd-rw lock up.  both lights stay lit and nothing works anymore. increase to 90 points.
check out the website for the manafacturer of your drive, for known problems? try making and image on harddrive, then toasting that to the CD.
What Spec is your machine? Ram CPU etc..
I've checked out TEAC and Adaptec's webpages...neither of which really gave me any insight into a possible solution.  I run on Win98 with a AMD k6-2 450 Mhz Cpu and 64MB ram with a WD 8.4 Gig HD
I had similar problems and found that I had to disable all power-saving settings on my system.

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what all does that entail?  under power management I dont have any of the power-saving options in use...they are all set for 'never'
You need to make an "Image File" and burn your CD using the Image as your source.  trying to make an copy from 1 CD to another usually causes
"Buffer over-runs'.

Image File Source

To make a copy of a CD from a disc image, follow these steps:

1      Select Image File from the Source menu.

2      Click the Select button.

3      Choose the image file (*.CIF) you want to copy and click Open.

The image file appears in the Source text box.

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Bud
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Are the jumpers on the drive set corectly? Are you matching formats with the drive and CD? EX.If there is a CD-RW wich is recomended for the drive try using it. Try a variety of disks (providing it does not go past your budget). Uninstall the drive, restart your computer, re-install the drive and try it then. If that does not work, uninstall the drive again, restart, and re-install the drive this time using Start-Settings-Control Panel-Add/Remove Hardware. Get your Win 98 Hardware Driver disk ready. (I hope you still have a standard CD-ROM drive) Answer its questions, until it gives you a choise of choosing your own driver for the drive, and pick random drivers from your Windows Driver Disk (for this type of device of course). If you are desprit, (and it looks like you are) you might try all of the drivers designed for your drive. So, check jumpers, check disk formats, re-install drive, choose new drivers. I'm about out of ideas. Hope this helps!
P.S. please forgive my spelling.
should there be a buffer over-run detected immediatly when copying begins as it appears to be doing since it freezes immediatley upon beginning the copy process? also, the source cd i have been trying to copy contains just over 600 MB of data and the destination blank cd is an 800 MB data cd.  there shouldnt be any buffer over-run should there?
well i had already tried reinstalling....didnt help...but i did it and had let windows automatically install it for me.  the jumper is set correctly.  it is the sole drive on my second IDE and it is jumped as master.
Adjusted points to 100
Another point I just noticed...the light on the cd-rw drive continuously flickers as if its searching for something. it does this only when there is no cd in it.  dont know if this is relevant but thought i'd throw it out there.  increase to 100 points.
Is the drive rated to handle the larger capacity CDR media?  Does it still lock up if you use the standard 640 meg CDR media?
yes it locks either way...but on TEAC's website they say that this drive should support the larger capacity disks.
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ok that copies a cd image to my HD...now what? by the way..i am copying a data cd, not music so I chose data cd obviously.  do i just choose from the file menu creat cd from cd image?  if so, does the blank cd need to be formatted in any way first?
Be very sure that the CDRW is not set to DMA mode. I had the exact same problem as you and setting the drive to PIO mode solved the problem.
Good luck
For this, don't use a disk you have to format, like a CD-RW.
Use a CD-R disk and no formating.

Then, yes..just

To make a copy of a CD from a disc image, follow these steps:

1 Select Image File from the Source menu.

2 Click the Select button.

3 Choose the image file (*.CIF) you want to copy and click Open.

The image file appears in the Source text box.

Regards,
Bud
http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/
Bud's Win95 Win98 Tips and Troubleshooter
=) thanks again
You're quite welcome.
Good luck.

Regards,
Bud
http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/
Bud's Win95 Win98 Tips and Troubleshooter