ImgBurn locks up when trying burn on an IDE burner via a sata convertor

[TimC]

I've just upgraded my motherboard & now have no IDE ports but have 2 excellent IDE writers that I want to keep.

 

I'm trying with a sata to IDE adapter that generally seems OK with other burning programs like Burrrn for audio CDs but ImgBurn gets to the point of "Querying Device Advanced Settings" & totally locks up. I have to kill the ImgBurn process & reboot to free the writer.

 

The particular writer I've tried this on is a Benq DW1650 , I've a Pioneer DVR-111L that I've not yet tried.

 

I've tried with an add-on card that has IDE output but that seems to struggle with burning a DVD above 6x speed - the device buffer fluctuations all over the place.

 

Any thoughts please?

 

Also I using Daemon tools Lite & ImgBurn puts this line in the log:-

 

W 15:11:35 Duplex Secure's SPTD driver can have a detrimental effect on drive performance.
 

Is this much to worry about?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

The adapter must not support the command used for the advanced settings.

 

They don't all work properly with optical drives.

 

What's the chipset used on it? (the main controller chip)

[TimC]

Yes the controller clearly cannot handle all commands normally found on an IDE device as I tried a Quality Scan in CD-Speed & that locked up as well.

 

The controller appears to be a JMicron one - the OCB says YT-JM330 & all that's on the main chip is B73V70041.

 

The only reason I'm trying this approach is that my add-on card has this buffering issue - mainly I think because the driver for it won't support DMA transfers.

 

I've just got a later driver from JMicron for it that I'm going to try.

 

I've also ordered a different SATA->IDE adaptor to try.

 

If all this fails I'll have to get a decent Sata DVD writer - preferrably one that supports quality scanning - any recommendations would be welcomed.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Where add-on cards are concerned, I seem to recall the Silicon Image 680 (Sil680) chipset ones being good for IDE drives. That's a PCI card though, so I'm not sure if your machine will have a slot for one.

[TimC]

I've got several of the SIL680 cards & a SiIL649 which worked well using 32bit XP but unfortunately I've struggled to get a Win7 64bit driver that works. Maybe I'll  try again.

 

As for DVD writers what's good these days?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

You're probably better off researching that question by looking at the threads over at the MyCE forums.

[TimC]

Since you mentioned the SIL680 add-on cards I've dug out one of mine & installed it successfully on my older Win7 X64 box successfully but it won't do so on my new system but that seems to be something I can investigate further.

[TimC]

Tried my Sil 0680 card and managed to install drivers.

 

Trying both writers on the same cable only the Benq would be seen but wit a separate cable for both the Benq & the Pioneer 111l both were successfully seen with the correct DMA settings.

 

It seems that some of these controllers don't like the Pioneer that runs in DMA mode 4 where the Benq is mode 2.

 

Anyway I using 1 more cable than I'd like but it's all working fine now.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Glad you got it working