Couple of problems
 

Hi. I just started using microstudio and am having a couple of problems, possibly because of my old hardware. I am using a plextor scsi 8220. I only have that so i have to make image and then write. Half the cd's abort saying read write error. at sector xxx.

Half of my cd's work fine, different brands.

I tried importing titles once. 3 titles were bad, so i just skipped those and continued.
After burning the music was out of sync with the titles, even on the first song, and skipping to next song left my tv garbled with letters.
I plan on getting one of the new plextors.
Do you think it's from the old drive?

Interestingly, cdrwin ( demo version) will make an image.

sounds like a problem with the ASPI driver
I've had ASPI driver problems before and It was a "head scratcher"

Your burner is probably too old( not supported) though someone may very well have the driver fix your lookin for.

It's supported, it works about 60 % of the time.
I am using the latest aspi driver included with the program.
But maybe the machine is wearing out.

Suggestion
 

You might want to try to disable your DMA on this drive just to see if you can get a better graphic?

MTU does recommend you activate the DMA & in fact it should always be activated but with some burner it seems like it's breaking the graphic (my experience).

Also, the latest driver from ATI for some older models appears to be a problem, it slows down the graphic by about 3-4 seconds!
I experience this not just with Microstudio so I know it's not the software, I had to go back to a previous version which was August 2003.

Good Luck

well , i just bought a new machine. Will see how that works.

How to...
 

linjon,

Here's some help on how to disable the DMA on your drive:
Start, Control Panel, System Hardware, Click on + on Device Manager than Secondary IDE Channel, In Advanced Settings change the transfer Mode to PIO only ON BOTH.

You might also want to disable the Primary EDI for your test so this way you'll know for sure if it's the DMA.

It is recommended that the DMA stays enable but like quaizywabbit reported it could be an ASPI driver problem & in my case using a Yamaha burner it fixed my problem.
If you see no changes I recommend you set them back to their defauld mode which is ENABLE.

Good Luck