Yamaha CRW4416S

[Gupt_007]

I have a Yamaha CRW4416S but am having slight troubles with it such as it writing CD's (so called) successfuly, but not being read by any cd-rom drives apart from the writer itself.

If any body has any ieas on how to solve this I would greatly appreciate it!

 

[rockhard]

I had trouble with my CRW4416s last week where it wouldnt format CDRW's due to my SCSI card being slow.
I dowmloaded the latest Drivers/Firmware for the writer from Yamaha's web site and this solved my probs.
Also I was told by Yamaha to go to adaptecs web site and download the latest upgrades for both directcd and Easycd which I also did.
Would be worth a try if you havent already.

Rockhard

[This message has been edited by rockhard (edited 13 June 1999).]

 

[Rup]

Ok, firstly the check-you're-not-doing-something-wrong:

* are you using CD-RW or UPF? i.e. are you writing to the CD by copying the file to the CD-drive or are you burning a CD in one go using Easy CD Creator? Only CDRW drives can read CDRWs, and you can only read unfinalized UPF disks in the writer.

* have you asked the writer program to leave the session open? I don't think Easy CD Creator can do this, but CeQuadrat's software certainly can. Again, supposedly only CD writers can handle such disks.

If the answer to both of those is no, there might be something wrong with your drive. My old Philips CDR2600 developed a fault whereby every other drive under the sun could read the CDRs but it couldn't; I lived with this, but it slowly got worse (e.g. it wouldn't align the head properly to write the table of contents, so non-DAO writes coastered), and by the time it had died completely the warranty had run out. So don't hang around -- get onto tech support now.

My experiences with trying to get tech support for a CD writer is really quite bad; Watford didn't know anything about them, and Traxdata wanted to pass me back to Watford since I didn't buy direct. By the time I had convinced Traxdata to talk to me, they sent me new drivers and told me that nothing else could be done. Bah. Yamaha probably won't want to talk to you either, but you might get better support if you pester them. If the company you bought the drive from is clueless, ring Yamaha and tell them -- they might be more useful.

One last thing: the first question any CDR tech support will ask is if disks written 1x work properly -- so give this a go before you give them a call.

Good luck!
Rup.

 

[TedTheDog]

Installed direct cd? (or whatever that proprietry Adpatec thing is called).
That sets your cd's up so you can write to them by simply dragging stuff to the cd in explorer. However, it means only a pc with direct cd can read the disks.

 

[[GA]KillMachine]

If the drives that the disc won't read on are fairly old (<16X) you may need to check that the disc is final fixated, also, you cant use a cdrw in an ordinary CD player (like your hi-fi) so don't even bother trying that

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[Gupt_007]

Problem solved:

Some brands of CDR are not compatible with all CD-ROM drives...wierdly enough Unbranded work perfectly!...while semi-branded sasung are crap, BTC are crap....pioneer & TDK are the best!