pioneer dvr-111 writing problem
My neighbour recently bought a pioneer dvr-111 drive, but was having problems copying CDs (he has a P3 800Mhz).
I said: hey, I’ll take a look!
Just as it starts writing to a blank CD, nero gives a CRC error and makes a coaster.
I try just burning a data CD, at a slow write speed), and I make another coaster… Hmm, not good.
Having had similar problems with my crappy Samsung drive over a year ago (and fixing things with a firmware update), I decide to upgrade the Pioneer firmware from V1.06 to the latest (1.29). I download the new firmware, but when I go to install it, I get an error message. (n)
I stuff around with a few different firmware versions, but no luck.
I eventually remove the drive and install it into my system (an amd duron 1.3 Ghz), and it writes CDs & DVDs without any problem… I upgrade the firmware with no hiccups. I then try in in my own P3 system, and it works fine.
I figure it should work correctly now, and if not, then its probably a problem with nero 7, which I can replace with nero 6.
I put the drive back into its original computer and it gives crc errors again… arggg!!!
It cant be nero, as it is just reporting the crc from the hardware.
However, I now have an idea of what the problem is: the burner was plugged into the ‘slave’ cable… and while working on it at the office, I changed the jumper to cable select. I suspect the old cd drive also had a forced master or slave jumper setting, so based on its cable selection, nero was probably getting conflicting messages from the 2 ‘masters’ or the 2 ‘slaves’.
I just unplugged the power from the older CDROM, and everything worked perfectly.
Sometime you just cannot assume that a PC has been put together correctly…
I bought a Pioneer DVD-111D a few days ago and had exactly the same problems as described in you Entry for 19th sept 06.
So I followed your solution and it works. Now, how do I fix the ‘old’ DVD drive so that it also works. I had changed the “Divice Configuration Jumper” to the second postion – Slave mode, but it still conflicts with the ‘new’ drive. Incidentally it works perfectly still, but some other readers cannot read the DVDs it burns, which is why I bought the new drive. (It reads all CDs and DVDs presented to it! It is an ‘OPTORITE’ DD1601 which came with the PC when new.
Any help gratefully received.
Peter AB
Hi Peter,
I’ve since found that pioneer drives seem to have a cable select jumer position that doesn’t work correctly.
You need to make sure both drives on the cable are manually set to master and slave (I don’t like doing it, but with many pioneer drives, you don’t have any choice).
Of course, you should try the other drive and have it write at a slower rate… I have a Samsung that is supposed to write at 16X, but the DVDs it creates (even at 8X) don’t work well. I found that 4X or 2X makes them work better.
I eventually upgraded the firmware, it it now burns ok at 8X, but I’m still avoiding 16X.
Thanks for the helpful tips, I had a problem with a new 111D drive, power calibration error, i upgraded the firmware from 1.23 to 1.29 and seems to fixed alot of my problems.