Yikes! CDRW newbie! Help me!

JimMorrison3169 · Post by **JimMorrison3169** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 5:14 pm

Hi,
I've never had a burner before and I just got the Lite-On 48/12/48 in the mail. I'm not good at all with this type of stuff since I've never installed anything like a burner/drive. Anyway, I have no idea what this slave/master and Primary/Secondary IDE ports are. I looked inside my computer and here is what's on each IDE port ( I guess the primary is IDE 1 and the secondary is IDE 2? That's how they're labeled...). IDE 1 just has the hard drive connected to it, and IDE 2 has an Iomega Zip Drive (which I never use, it came with my...Dell.) and my old, old 1998 DVD drive, not sure what the specs are on it, if it matters. If anyone knows how to start this off, please, I'd be VERY appreciative.

Alex

BroncoSport · Post by **BroncoSport** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 5:31 pm

set your IDE #2 cable for your new burner. If it were me I would take the unused zip drive out, and set the burner as the master on that cable.

make sure that you have the DVD set to slave or CS (cable select).

also make sure that the bios has the IDE channels set for auto-select. Your new burner could probally run ATA-66.

There are also some OS settings (maybe) depending on which OS your using.

Hope this helps

JimMorrison3169 · Post by **JimMorrison3169** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 5:33 pm

Thank you so much, I'll write back if I have any more problems. I suck at this stuff

JimMorrison3169 · Post by **JimMorrison3169** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 9:36 pm

Well it worked great! Thanks, but...I have another problem, when I burn songs they turn out all 44 bytes in size...anyone know why?

ssjDoh · Post by **ssjDoh** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 11:13 pm

Originally posted by JimMorrison3169
Well it worked great! Thanks, but...I have another problem, when I burn songs they turn out all 44 bytes in size...anyone know why?

What program are you using??

JimMorrison3169 · Post by **JimMorrison3169** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 11:40 pm

Nero, it seems to burn fine, but then I tried to use it in a portable CD player for a test but it didn't work, so I look at the properties of the files and each file was 44 bytes.

jumpingrat · Post by **jumpingrat** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 12:37 am

Did you finalize the CD before putting it in your portable ?

JimMorrison3169 · Post by **JimMorrison3169** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 1:32 am

How do I do that?

jumpingrat · Post by **jumpingrat** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 2:02 am

Have your cd-r disk in your cd-r drive and open my computer right click on the drive and select finalize disk (or create udf disk) this will vary depending on the OS. the burner should then write to the disk making it finalized. Once the cd is formated it will be readable in a standard cd drive. Hope this helps

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 2:11 am

Hmmm, better to finalize or "close disk" from within the program it was written. The setting is there somewhere, find it.

Sorry, I don't use Nero, and can't help you with where the setting is.

jumpingrat · Post by **jumpingrat** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 2:25 am

Good point, it is best to use the application that created the disk to finalize it. Try opening file and choose finalize disk in Nero.

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 2:41 am

Does Nero burn MP3's to CDA on the fly, and did you burn MP3's Jim, or wav files, or did you copy a CD.

Lots of things to consider when burning music CD's

Forgetful · Post by **Forgetful** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 4:57 am

Originally posted by JimMorrison3169
Well it worked great! Thanks, but...I have another problem, when I burn songs they turn out all 44 bytes in size...anyone know why?

Have you fixed the problem yet? I think 44 bytes is the size of the file read as text, i.e, you're just copying the titles and not the music.

JimMorrison3169 · Post by **JimMorrison3169** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 9:47 am

I looked through settings and whatnot, and it finalizes for me automatically. I'm pretty sure I'm burning the CD properly because it takes around 4-5 minutes or so to burn it (I guess this is a realistic time). Then when I look at the file sizes they're all 44 bytes, argggg. Perhaps it's these Lite-ON CD's that it came with?

JimMorrison3169 · Post by **JimMorrison3169** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 9:47 am

Norm, making a compilation CD, WAV files.

JimMorrison3169 · Post by **JimMorrison3169** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 2:53 pm

I think I know why they're not working in the car and cd players...I bought CD-RW's...GRRRRRRR

ssjDoh · Post by **ssjDoh** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 4:19 pm

Do you mean when you check the files in Explorer??

The file extension .cda?

They are supposed to be really small if that's the case. Check out a normal audio CD, and it'll show up the same.

And CD-RW won't work on most cd-players.