What's with Nero 6.0 and Copying a Video DVD?

[W. Watson]

I have a non-protected video DVD that I wanted to copy with Nero 6.0. I have
one writeable DVD drive. Nero showed it would take 430 minutes, and after 60
minutes was in fact only 15% finished. What's going on there?

Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
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[Richard Urban]

Your DVD drive is likely locked in PIO mode of operation. This is the
slowest default speed possible. This happens when you play a CD or DVD that
has a lot of read errors. After X amount of errors the device will be
dropped down from DMA 2 mode one step.

If X amount of additional errors are encountered the speed will be dropped
down again - and so forth - until you are at the slowest possible speed.
This is by design, in trying to read a defective disk properly. When once
this happens it stays that way until "you" step in to correct the situation.

Open device manager and go to the IDE controller section. Find the channel
that the DVD device is connected to. Delete/uninstall the channel. Then
reboot. Upon again returning to Windows the device will be redetected at its
fastest design speed. This will remain until you again try to use a
defective disk.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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[W. Watson]

Your DVD drive is likely locked in PIO mode of operation. This is the
slowest default speed possible. This happens when you play a CD or DVD that
has a lot of read errors. After X amount of errors the device will be
dropped down from DMA 2 mode one step.

If X amount of additional errors are encountered the speed will be dropped
down again - and so forth - until you are at the slowest possible speed.
This is by design, in trying to read a defective disk properly. When once
this happens it stays that way until "you" step in to correct the situation.

Open device manager and go to the IDE controller section. Find the channel
that the DVD device is connected to. Delete/uninstall the channel. Then
reboot. Upon again returning to Windows the device will be redetected at its
fastest design speed. This will remain until you again try to use a
defective disk.

Thanks. I'll give it a shot. I'm surprised that Nero didn't detect this
problem. However, maybe it did and I missed it. I'm using a Sony DRU-540A
drive whose open/close mechanism is getting a bit sticky. Don't know what
else is going on in there. Perhaps I should toss the DVD I was trying to
use. It was fresh out of the box.

PIO=pretty insignificant output?


Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
--
"This spring I knew we had a good bunch of players. When
they won the American League title they became a team."
-- Jim Leyland, Detroit Tiger manager, 2006.

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[FeMaster]

Perhaps I should toss the DVD I was trying to
use. It was fresh out of the box.

Why would you toss a DVD that hadn't been burned to yet? UNLESS, are you
attempting to do a direct copy, from one drive to another? If that is so,
then that is where your problem lies, especially if both drives are on the
same IDE channel...

 

[W. Watson]

Why would you toss a DVD that hadn't been burned to yet? UNLESS, are you
attempting to do a direct copy, from one drive to another? If that is so,
then that is where your problem lies, especially if both drives are on the
same IDE channel...

My comment above that I should toss the DVD is wrong. It never got the
chance to burn to the writable DVD. I never got the chance to put it in. I
believe I was working under some notion that maybe the mfger had provided a
RW DVD, and I had accidentally stumbled into some bizarre situation that
Nero was trying to write back to it. Upon pulling out the original DVD, I
could see it was R only, and verified this by playing it. The original
material was intact.

I've copied CDs with Nero. It stops copying at some point and asks to put
the writeable CD in. It then burns the CD. I would expect to get the same
sort of warning with a DVD burn.


Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
--
"This spring I knew we had a good bunch of players. When
they won the American League title they became a team."
-- Jim Leyland, Detroit Tiger manager, 2006.

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[W. Watson]

Re-installing the driver did the trick.


Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
--
"This spring I knew we had a good bunch of players. When
they won the American League title they became a team."
-- Jim Leyland, Detroit Tiger manager, 2006.

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[Richard Urban]

Glad you got it fixed. You WILL use this trick again!

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!