altralosix Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Greetings all. I have a SATA Lite-On DVD burner that I am using on a system I just built. Ever since this new install the drive gets stuck synchronizing cache and just continuously spins. I searched around and found this topic: http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=15766 which I think applies to me perfectly as I have two hard drives in a RAID 0 array. Motherboard chipset is an AMD 790X / SB710. I don't want to get rid of my RAID array, so is this just a problem with this particular drive, or will this affect ANY DVD drive? I don't want to buy a new one just to have it do the same thing. If anyone can recommend a drive that will work with this chipset on RAID, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 I honestly have no idea if it's drive specific... I'm thinking it's not. Get yourself a PCI/PCIe SATA card (Silicon Image chipset) and put your burner on that. You might find you can get away with enabling the 'Don't Use Immediate I/O' option in the settings as that seems to be what the RAID drivers have issues with. I assume you have the latest chipset/controller drivers from AMD or whoever installed yeah? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altralosix Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 It looks like "don't use immediate I/O" did the trick. Yes, up to date drivers and firmware. If there's any debug info you need from me let me know, otherwise I think this is solved, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Thanks but I've seen the debug info before. It just shows the drive/drivers claiming the operation is still in progress... forever and ever and ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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