Hi guys, I just bought this drive and was wondering what the settings were in EAC. I can't seem to detect the write features, it hangs after it reaches 100%. Also, when I try to create an offset test CD, it hangs at 0%. Thanks in advance.

The features are

Accurate Stream: yes
Caches audio data: yes
C2 error detection: yes

I'm not sure about the offsets, you should browse through cdfreaks.com and cdrinfo.com, I'm sure someone has mentioned them.

But it shouldn't hang in the first place. What operating system and ASPI drivers you are using? Have you flashed the latest firmware to your drive?

I'm using an Athlon PC, VIA chipset motherboard with the latest Hyperion drivers, Win XP Pro SP1, no ASPI installed and the latest firmware (version C I think). EAC just stops there, not progressing or doing anything. It doesn't really crash or hang I think.

Hi,

I have the exact same drive, latest firmware and get the exact same problem when writing in EAC !

Actually the write features detection does work, but takes like 1:30 hour !
The actual writing of an audio cd does work too, but it seems to be performed at 1X, and crashes the PC thereafter

If someone finds a solution to this, please let me know.

So you are using EAC's "Windows internal" (or something) drive access mode. Common consensus seems to be that Windows internal mode is far from perfect.

You could try using ASPI drivers instead, download the latest ASPI drivers from adaptec.com. Or here's a direct link. After installing these, instruct EAC to use external ASPI drivers instead of Windows internal access mode.

If that doesn't help, you could try the older 4.60 ASPI drivers through the ForceASPI program (find it with google).

I have a 40x LiteOn burner at it seems that EAC doesn't support burning with LiteOn drives. You know that EAC doesn't support writting with all drives.

No no no, I could burn an offset test cd, as well as an audio cd properly with the LiteOn. It's just that my system was unusable for ~75 minutes while burning, and EAC crashed the windows burning subsystem thereafter.

Works fine here. Lite-On 40x.

Often I will have a 2-3 minute hang of the program before the write speed dialogue box pops up, then it works smoothly. I have an LTR-24102B. Of course, our drives use a different control chip, so THAT is what needs to be looked at for compatibility, not just manufacturer.

(XXYYCZ) X=Write Y=Re-Write C=control chip Z=eeprom make

OT, but you can reflash any LiteOn with the same control chip up or down (accept some series 1 and series 2 for some reason), with the right flash software. Flashing between eeproms (Flash memory) doesn't make a difference. (sometimes one eeprom version of a firmware will have more features than the other.)

For instance S=SST (ST Electronics?) eeproms and W=Winbond eeproms

I am not sure about mine, which is B. There also A's and C's, and an M (Dell OEM).

LiteOn uses Mediatek chipsets for their drives. These have versions 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 in the LTR series. Firmware upgrades between chipsets does NOT work, except with the new XSU1 to upgrade series 3 to 5.

Try this forum for good LiteOn info http://forum.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php...p?s=&forumid=44

read offset: +6
write offset: -6

Didn't try burning an audio CD yet.

Ok, I read somewhere that said that I shouldn't enable overread into lead-in/out for this drive because of some problems with it. But I thought we need that setting otherwise the first and last track will have missing samples?

Unless your drive does both, or is somehow compatible, usually, EAC will give errors and not rip correctly. (This is because the option controls reading into BOTH, so if your drive only supports one, you can't select just the one that works.) I wonder why the option can't be split though?

I've got same values with EAC 'offset test cd'.

BTW EAC is the only program that is able to write RW on '23.9x' speed, it appears.

Still no luck with those Platinum CD-RW's, though. Tried nero and bao, both report successful write, but resulting cd is blank.