RSJ and a new CD burner
tho...@antispam.ham
I picked up a new CD burner for cheap while CompUSA was liquidating.
The new drive creates data CDs just fine, but when I use it to create
an audio CD with RSJ and DAO mode, the result is rather bizarre. The
CD plays the audio content just fine. The CD player displays the total
number of tracks and total time properly after being loaded. But while
playing, only the first track time is displayed properly. When it gets
to the second track, one CD player simply displays --:-- for the time,
while another CD player displays -99:59 and starts counting toward zero.
I can't advance to track 3 or higher because the player only sees a
second track, but if I just let it keep playing, it will play the
content of tracks 3 and higher just fine, but with the display still
showing track 2. When it gets to the end of the audio content, the CD
player just stays silent while the time continues to count toward zero.
Now, this CompUSA drive isn't listed in RSJ's cddrv.inf file, so I
assume that it is being dynamically detected by the RSJ software, but
what if one of the settings is wrong? I have it attached to my system
via an Adaptec 29160 and an ATAPI-SCSI bridge. The indicated driver
is cdmmc, SyncTrans is disabled, and DAO mode is CUESHEET, but other
drives in the cddrv.inf file use the cdatapi driver with a few using
cdteac or cdsony or cdrec, RAW-3 for the DAO mode, and lastly SyncTrans
apparently has the three choices enabled/disabled/ATAPI.
That's a lot of permutations to experiment with. Is there some additional
information that might help to narrow down the possibilities to try?
And how do you get RSJ to use the entry from cddrv.inf rather than
whatever it dynamically detects? Presumably it compares some sort of ID
from the dynamic detection with what is in the cddrv.inf file, but which
string is it? Maybe the one labeled as "SCSI-ID"?
Andi B.
burner can't handle this type of CD-R (manufacturer) or burning speed is to high?
What CD-R manufacturer? Which burning speed?
Newer CD burners (last 5 years?) do burn with very bad quality especially at
high speeds.
Andi
Lars Erdmann
a few notes:
1.) first off, if you use the most recent RSJ (v 6.03), then enable "USB
mode" (it's only called that way because it was introduced for USB CD-ROM
burners. It also works with non USB). That will simplify A LOT of things.
2.) If that does not help, go back to "non USB mode" and add the -i
parameter to LOCKDRV.FLT. That's the means to select an entry from
cddrv.inf. What you normally do is, while in "non USB mode" copy the
detected settings from the information pane of the RSJ control object, copy
that to cddrv.inf (you will see the analogy with the cddrv.inf entries). I
seem to remember that the ID is the "shorter" of the 2 identification
("name") strings. If it contains spaces, surround the string with quotes on
the LOCKDRV.FLT -i command line.
3.) try to research via internet what HW and FW is REALLY behind your
"CompUSA" drive. Then visit the OEM home page to find out more about the
technical details. I'd say that "cdmmc" is correct (should work for all SCSI
devices), however DAO could be RAW-3 (but this is only relevant for burning
CD-ROMS not when playing audio cds. "SyncTrans" is "Synchronous
transmission", I'd just try "enabled" ("ATAPI" should definitely be the
wrong answer as you have a SCSI drive).
Lars
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tho...@antispam.ham
> What CD-R manufacturer?
Sony.
> Which burning speed?
16X.
> Newer CD burners (last 5 years?) do burn with very bad quality especially at
> high speeds.
Not even close to the rated 52X speed. The burn is just fine in the sense
that the audio content plays. It's the way the table of contents is handled,
suggesting a software incompatibility.