A few weeks ago I purchased both a LiteOn 52x CDRW and a LiteON 16x DVD-ROM, formatted my machine, installed the lastest EAC (prebeta 3), adjusted the offsets, and started ripping discs.

At the end of some (probably 50% of the time) discs, the error correction bar fills up rapidly (takes 2 seconds) and I get a sync error suspicious position. Is this an EAC bug, a firmware bug? What's going on? I'm using the latest firmware by the way.

I Have just been ignoring the problem till now because it happens at the very end of the very last track, and is completely unnoticable. But I am curious.

EDIT: does it with both drives by the way.

try disabling overread (leadin/out)

This is only a guess-by no means an answer. I had the same problem with a drive about an year ago. I discovered that the drive was faulty. So I exchanged the drive for another one. This drive too had the same problem. Looks like the whole batch was faulty. So I went and bought an Asus-expensive at the time-but the best available here. I am a happy man now.

1) Try getting another drive.
2) Try upgrading the firmware.
3) Try upgrading/installing the latest ASPI layer
4) Try switching back to an earlier version of EAC.
5) Try disabling the overread-(This in my limited experience, should not be the actual problem).
6) Try disabling UDMA.
7) Try upgrading your chipset drivers-not recommended, but you can try.

Bye.

We'll see
Since Jebus' drive is new, this is probably one of the first rips done with it, meaning it could actually be a typical EAC misconfiguration. That's why I find it worth mentioning.

Yeh that was totally it. Never even thought about it. thanks!